'Massively ignorant': Why this MAGA candidate is getting threats from Trump supporters

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A supporter of President Donald Trump in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on August 23, 2023 (Image: Shutterstock)

Tori Branum, who is a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and an outspoken supporter of President Donald Trump running for Congress in Georgia, is attracting a significant amount of hate from Trump supporters over a recent controversial move.

The Daily Beast reported Tuesday that Branum took responsibility for telling U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) about a Hyundai battery plant under construction in the Savannah area employing undocumented immigrants. Earlier this month, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed it conducted a massive raid on the facility, arresting 450 people (Korean media reported that more than 500 people were detained, including 300 Korean nationals).

Branum admitted on social media that her decision to tip off the Trump administration about the hundreds of undocumented workers at the Bryan County, Georgia Hyundai plant made per an unpopular figure among the president's supporters.

“I have gotten hate mail from all over the country with people telling me to die or that I should be in fear,” she wrote in a Facebook post. “I served this country and I’ll go down with the ship before someone silences me.”

The Beast reported that many of the comments on Branum's post were less than complimentary, with many pointing out that her action stifled the manufacturing economy at a time when Trump is hoping to incentivize growth in the manufacturing sector by imposing steep tariffs on imported goods (Trump promised to lower tariffs on South Korea in exchange for South Korea investing hundreds of billions of dollars in the United States). One user said Branum "caused a serious geopolitical problem between us and S. Korea with your massively ignorant actions."

"Imagine backing Trump’s ‘bring jobs back’ tariffs then cheering the ICE raid that nuked Georgia’s $4.3B Hyundai plant—475 workers arrested, 40k jobs gone," another user wrote. "That’s not America First, that’s economic suicide. You’re a walking contradiction and a clown."

The Hyundai raid marked one of the largest immigration-related worksite raids of Trump's second term to date. News of the raid apparently angered South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, whose administration stated: "The economic activities of our companies investing in the United States and the interests of our citizens must not be unduly violated during the course of US law enforcement."

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