‘The Broader Reality Is Not in Dispute’: Wes Moore Struggles To Substantiate Claims About His Grandfather as Aides Accuse Free Beacon of Racism

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Pressed for evidence to support his oft-repeated claim that his great-grandfather and grandfather were run out of South Carolina in the 1920s by the Ku Klux Klan, Maryland governor Wes Moore (D.) produced no evidence. Instead, his aides pointed to the "broader reality" of race relations in the Jim Crow South. "We’re not going to litigate a family’s century-old oral history with a partisan outlet," Moore spokesman Ammar Moussa told Fox News on Tuesday. The outlet had asked him about a Washington