The former president and Diamond and Silk’s verified Twitter account both reported Monday night that Diamond had passed away. 51 years old.
According to their 2020 book, “Uprising,” both women, sisters named Lynette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson, respectively, were born in 1971, with Diamond making her public debut on Thanksgiving Day.
On his Truth Social platform, former President Donald Trump said, “Our beloved Diamond of Diamond and Silk has just gone away at her home in the state she loved so much, North Carolina,” calling her passing “very awful news for Republicans.”
Her demise had no known cause. “Diamond’s death was very unexpected,” Trump stated.
The world just lost a True Angel and Warrior Patriot for Freedom, Love, and Humanity, according to the couple’s verified Twitter account.
Any donations were requested to go to a crowdfunding website’s memorial campaign page.
The Diamond and Silk Twitter account requested prayers for Diamond in late November. It was unclear why exactly. Anyone who believes in the efficacy of prayer is urged to pray for Diamond, the message said.
The sisters were up in a portion of the Deep South’s fertile land, where their father’s father and grandfather were landowner farmers, according to the autobiographical book “Uprising,” yet they were not without class, taste, or an anchor.
When Trump ran for president in 2016, the two women attracted attention by endorsing him on their YouTube channel. After being lifelong Democrats, the pair claims they switched parties in order to support Trump after he announced his candidature in 2015.
Trump welcomed the two, highlighting that they were Black American women who were backing a white Republican whose history of inclusivity had been attacked as being outdated, if not discriminatory. They were present during Trump’s 2017 inauguration.
Regarding alleged attempts to censor their Facebook page, the sisters testified before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation in 2018. They took a position in response to Republican accusations of anti-GOP bias at the podium.
The two converted their inclusion in Trump World into contributor positions at Fox News. After the pair publicly accepted the theory that Covid-19 fatality figures were being fabricated to harm Trump, the network broke off the couple’s engagement in 2020.
With “Diamond and Silk: Crystal Clear,” Diamond and Silk soon made their debut on the niche network Newsmax. The two identified themselves as Trump’s “most devoted fans.”
The co-written book “Uprising,” which they released in 2020, rapidly became a blockbuster, according to the authors.
Trump presented a hypothesis for Diamond’s demise on Monday.
According to what the former president stated on his platform, “perhaps her enormous and precious heart simply plain gave out.”
