Preston's "Confederate White Knights" was not, at the time, on the Southern Poverty Law Center's list of hate groups. Klan groups tend to be small, and Preston's apparently was no exception. He resurfaced in 2015 in a two-part video interview with "Pure Patriot Press," which had only a few thousand views at press time. On the videos, Preston prefigured President Donald Trump's description of the Charlottesville action two years before it happened, saying, about the Klan in the 1960s, "the violence came from all different sides."