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It is not easy to find familiar faces that support Trump . They are like the pebble on a plate of lentils. A rarity. And if they are black, even more. The rejection reaction is usually immediate, especially after the death of George Floyd at the hands of a policeman in Minnesota on May 25. The chasm between the president and the African American community in the United States is irreducible. That is why Diamond and Silk, the black sister video bloggers who adore the president, is an atypical and suspicious case, an amorphous symbiosis between two traditionally opposed and opposed worlds.

In the warmth of Trump, Lynnette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson - their real names - have become famous and fattened their bank account. They have 1.4 million followers on Twitter, another 1.8 million on Facebook and 274,000 on their YouTube channel , where their videos always revolve around the figure of the Republican. This is how they are sold on Twitter. "We are the most loyal supporters of President Trump," with a photo of the three greeting each other and declaring their love "for being the best president in history."

So much is the devotion that fueled even a conspiracy theory about the covid-19 pandemic: they spread on social media that the numbers were inflated and that confinement was an affront to the most essential American liberties. "The only way we can become immune to the environment is to go out into the environment," they wrote. "Locking people in their houses for long periods of time will make people sick!"

Twitter temporarily blocked their account due to what they considered to be false information about covid-19. Then, in late April, the Fox network decided to cut ties by canceling the sisters' weekly program. Trump stepped in with a tweet supporting the bloggers. "I adore Diamond & Silk, as do millions of people."

On that side they can be calm. They have the support and protection of the campaign of the American president. They are part of the directors of Women for Trump and Black Voices for Trump. The fact that the Republican only removed 8% of the black vote in the 2016 elections seems to matter little. "They fight for the president and are very valuable members of the Trump team," said a spokesman.

That is where the idyll began. The then Republican presidential candidate called them to be present at three of his political rallies in 2016. He even compensated them with a check for $ 1,274. They denied having received that money to later acknowledge that it had been travel expenses.

Theirs seems like a clear case of opportunism, starting with the fact that Hardaway and Richardson were registered with the Democratic Party in 2012 . Her first two videos, one denouncing police brutality against blacks and the other about Sandra Bland, an African American who died in a Texas prison, did not give very good results. The first received 17,000 visits and the second 32,000. With the third, the matter was different. It jumped to 338,000 visits, 10 times more than the previous one. It was about Trump, his new messiah and the goose that lays golden eggs.

The explanation may lie in its origins. Diamond and Silk are the daughters of a televangelist pastor who built a small empire in their North Carolina town. Some of the businesses in Fayetteville carry the family name along with the biggest income generator: the Jericho Deliverance Temple, the church from which Betty and her husband Freeman evangelize through home videos.

Her daughters appear to be applying a similar formula. "These women evoke a time when evangelism dominated television," Anthea Butler, a professor of theology at the University of Pennsylvania, said in an interview with 'The Morning Call.' It is as if two great powers have converged: televangelism with the Trump religion.

Donald, his main source of income

That Diamond and Silk use the President to make money seems pretty obvious. On the Diamond and Silk website, which is already a registered trademark, you can buy cups and glasses with his name, download the theme 'Trump's Yo President' and buy caps and shirts with the image of the New York magnate. They are also about to publish a book. His, apart from the alleged devotion to his idol, is a consolidated business. They make a living defending the least popular president in the United States. What is missing from his website is information about his personal and professional career. Just his journey and his appearances with Trump. So far, they have sidestepped questions from the press about his story. "It is not your problem," they often respond bluntly. On his Facebook page, with poor care and relatively frequently publishing the few photographs they have with Donald Trump as a way of remembering that the President knows them well, more of the same. Republican propaganda and a crowd of white supporters.

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