A CONTENTIOUS former councillor has begun fundraising for a Northern Ireland-based Donald Trump supporters' group with grand plans of touring Ulster with a trailer calling for the re-election of the US president.
Former Belfast City Councillor and Ulster-Unionist Jolene Bunting has taken to Twitter to call on her followers to donate to the “Ulster-Scots for Trump” campaign.
According to the details published on an online crowdfunding page uncovered by Irish News: "A group of Northern Ireland-based Trump supporters have come together to show our support for Donald J Trump in the run-up to the 2020 election.”
The group is planning to embark on a “trailer campaign” to show their support for the President’s re-election.
"In good auld Ulster-Scots style we will travel the length and breadth of the Ulster showing our support for President Trump,"” the page explains.
It goes on to claim that for centuries "Ulster-Scots have helped to shape the American way of life" adding that the "Ulster-Scots diaspora can make the difference in the 2020 presidential election".
"Ulster-Scots/Scots-Irish can help re-elect President Trump," it states.
The group has set themselves an initial fundraising target of £1,650, with that money going towards the cost of the trailer, fuel and other additions like 'Make America Great Again' hats.
CAMPAIGN: 'Ulster-Scots for Trump'
Please click on the link below for more info & to donate to our campaign:
🔗https://t.co/h3u7hYiLOR#UlsterScotsForTrump #ScotsIrishForTrump#Trump2020 #Trump2020Landslide #TRUMP2020ToSaveAmerica #Trump2020NowMoreThanEver #KAG2020
🇬🇧🤝🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/duVxG1Gvh9— 🇬🇧 Jolene Bunting 🇬🇧 (@jolenebuntinguk) September 3, 2020
According to Irish News, the crowdfunding page includes the contact details of Wayne Cummings, Bunting’s partner.
The pair were previously part of a small group of pro-Trump supporters who appeared at a counter-demonstration to a protest in Belfast last year, held in opposition to the US president's visit to Ireland.
Jayda Fransen, former deputy leader of the far-right group Britain First, was among those to attend the counter-demonstration.
Bunting lost her eat on Belfast City Council in the 2019 council elections.
More recently, she has tweeted out several videos promoting a variety of coronavirus conspiracy theories.
No stranger to controversy, in 2018 she was handed a four-month interim suspension from the local government standards commissioner pending the outcome of an investigation.
The investigation came after no fewer than 14 complaints were lodged against the Unionist. One of the complaints was linked to a video she made outside the Belfast Islamic Centre.
Another was linked to her participation in a Britain First rally in the city.
