Published date: 16 March 2021 21:57 UTC | Last update: 40 sec ago
Since announcing his campaign in 2015, former US President Donald Trump regularly used racist language and rebuked immigrants, leading critics to accuse him of fanning the flames of white supremacy and far-right violence.
Yet the former president continued to enjoy support from a significant minority within communities of colour, including Arab Americans.
A public opinion poll showed that 35 percent of Arab Americans favoured Trump ahead of last year s US presidential election. Some US Arabs stuck by the former president after the campaign, subscribing to his baseless theories of voter fraud and attending his 6 January rally that turned into a deadly riot in Washington.