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Far-Right Leader Phyllis Schlafly Endorses Donald Trump

Today in St. Louis, Eagle Forum founder Phyllis Schlafly introduced and endorsed Donald Trump(link is external), lauding him as a true conservative who will appoint right-wing judges to the bench and thwart President Obama’s nefarious agenda.

Schlafly, a(link is external) longtime(link is external) Trump(link is external) booster(link is external), shares Trump’s suspicion of vaccines(link is external), international trade(link is external) and immigration(link is external).

Most recently, she urged the government to organize “railroad cars full of illegals going south(link is external),” predicted that Central American immigrants would Ctrl+Click or tap to follow the link"> spread Ebola(link is external) throughout the U.S. and called on Major League Baseball to ban foreign players(link is external) “and return our national pastime to Americans.”

Schlafly, best known for her activism against the Equal Rights Amendment and the feminist movement, has blamed campus sexual assaults(link is external) on women focusing on college and careers, told colleges to reduce female enrollment(link is external), repeatedly(link is external) praised(link is external) the gender pay gap and consistently(link is external) claimed(link is external) that married women can’t be raped by their husbands.

So it shouldn’t be all that surprising that she is a Trump supporter.