The Tampa Bay Times reports:
Calling it “an indefensible act of hatred,” the Florida Holocaust Museum sharply condemned demonstrations at the Tampa Convention Center where a group of neo-fascists waved flags with swastikas outside Turning Point USA’s Student Action Summit.
Inside the summit, Turning Point USA’s founder Charlie Kirk told a cheering crowd that there were 5,000 people in attendance. Kirk called Democrats the “invading, occupying force” in the U.S. and encouraged attendees to have lots of children to “outbreed” liberals.
Creative Loafing Tampa reports:
The group distributed flyers, one of which said “every single aspect of abortion is Jewish.” The flyers say they were distributed by the Goyim Defense League, which the anti-defamation league describes as an extremist terrorist organization that was responsible for at least 74 anti-semitic propaganda incidents in 2021.
Turning Point spokesperson Andrew Kolvet told CL that TPUSA had no idea who the Nazi groups were or why they turned up outside the convention.
Florida has seen a rise in fascist activity in recent months. In Orlando, the Nazi group Atomwaffen assaulted civilians during a demonstration, and a neo-Nazi group made a bomb threat in Daytona Beach.
As they always do, Trump cultists are busy on social media claiming that the Nazis were planted by the FBI to make them look bad.
Nazis with anti-Semitic signs, Desantis sign and flag, outside the TPUSA event today, where Trump, Desantis, Hawley, Cruz, Greene, Gaetz and Boebert spoke: “We kicked all your n——s asses in Rhodesia. It was a race war in Africa between whites and blacks.” ? @davedeckerphoto pic.twitter.com/2VVis0k5Y2
— Ron Filipkowski ?? (@RonFilipkowski) July 23, 2022
#WATCH | Fascist protestors with Nazi flags are gathered at the Tampa Convention Center, where #SAS2022 is being held. ?
They’re acting violently against journalists and bearing antisemitic messages. @TPUSA
Our reporters are live-covering the situation. Stay tuned! pic.twitter.com/hINI4uSFXT
— El American (@ElAmerican_) July 23, 2022
Nazis for @RonDeSantisFL in Tampa today. Photo credit @davedeckerphoto pic.twitter.com/GvUA7gdZXJ
— Greg Baker (@gregsbaker) July 23, 2022
Flyers said they were distributed by the Goyim Defense League, which @ADL describes as an extremist terrorist organization that was responsible for at least 74 anti-semitic propaganda incidents in 2021. https://t.co/iY50e6qlAy
— Ray Roa (@rayroa) July 23, 2022
Nazis are NOT welcomed in Tampa Bay. People who believe in Nazi ideology feel emboldened by Ron DeSantis —we need to change that.
Vote on August 23rd ???https://t.co/O5f01TgTTI
— Michael Villarreal (@MichaelV_96) July 23, 2022