There was nothing wrong with promoting white supremacy—it was only “race pride,” he said. “I cannot see anything anti-American in that.” He dismissed the numerous stories of violence as the work of “a paper owned and controlled by a Jew,” and imposters trying to take down the Invisible Empire. “Our masks and robe are not worn for the purpose of terrorizing people. I say before God, they are as innocent as the breath of an angel.”

