A pic is worth a 1000 words.
The dnc and the rnc know that voters don't fact check.
Voters see something or hear something that they like and that's the way they vote.
So a pic is a cheap way for pols to buy votes.
As for Michael, perhaps he knows someone or just got picked out of a crowd and offered a job.
How does one get to be one of the chosen few to appear behind TheRUMP on the boob tube, when he's out speechifying?
Michael the Black Man: The strange story of the Blacks for Trump guy at the Phoenix rally
At a number of political rallies over the last two years, a character calling himself “Michael the Black Man” has appeared in the crowd directly behind Donald Trump, impossible to miss and possibly planted.
He holds signs that scream “BLACKS FOR TRUMP” and wears a T-shirt proclaiming with equal conviction that “TRUMP & Republicans Are Not Racist.”
The presence of Michael the Black Man — variously known as Michael Symonette, Maurice Woodside and Mikael Israel — has inspired not only trending Twitter hashtags but a great deal of curiosity and Google searches. Internet sleuths find the man’s bizarre URL, an easily-accessible gateway to his strange and checkered past.
Most curiously, in the 1990s, he was charged, then acquitted, with conspiracy to commit two murders

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