Extremists

Trump: Report On Mar-A-Lago Vetting Is “Fake News”

Posted today to Trump’s Truth Social account: The story in AP, written by the untalented and unreliable Jill Colvin, who I unfortunately got to know at the White House, is Fake News. We have very strong security, especially with the very talented Secret Service on premises, but when I know someone, as I did Ye, we’re not going to have …

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House GOP Finally Deletes Infamous Pro-Kanye Tweet

Evidently, “I like Hitler” was a bridge too far: After nearly two months of Kanye West’s anti-Semitic full scale meltdown, the Twitter account for the House Judiciary Committee Republicans finally decided to get rid of their infamous “Kanye. Elon. Trump.” tweet. In the last few weeks, the House Judiciary tweet has been condemned and ridiculed far and wide between Elon …

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Kanye West: “I Like Hitler, The Nazis Did Good Things”

Salon reports: Kanye West praised Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler during an appearance on Alex Jones’ InfoWars conspiracy broadcast. The rapper, who now goes by Ye, appeared on the right-wing conspiracy broadcast alongside white nationalist Nick Fuentes, a week after the pair met with former president Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort. “That’s right, you’re not Hitler, you’re not a Nazi, …

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Daily Show Mashes Up Nick Fuentes With GOP Rhetoric

The Daily Kos reports: In just a few minutes of listening to white supremacist and notorious Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes, anyone would begin to hear the echoed sentiments of Fox News and various members of the Republican Party. The same racist, xenophobic “great replacement” theory conspiracies, the same praise of fascism and white nationalism, and the same misogynistic and anti-LGBTQ …

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DHS Bulletin Warns Of “Persistent” Threats Of Terrorism

NBC News reports: In a terrorism advisory bulletin, the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday raised concerns about potential threats to the LGBTQ, Jewish and migrant communities from violent extremists inside the United States. Americans motivated by violent ideologies pose a “persistent and lethal threat,” a senior DHS official told reporters in a briefing on the bulletin. Asked if recent …

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REPORT: Mar-A-Lago To Begin “Fully Vetting” Visitors

Semafor reports: Mar-a-Lago is ramping up its screening after white supremacist Nick Fuentes was allowed into the venue to dine with former President Donald Trump. “My understanding is they’re making big changes over who can come in and the vetting process, which I think is smart,” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. told reporters on Tuesday night. A source familiar with …

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Ohio Court Sentences Wohl And Burkman To 500 Hours Each Of Registering Voters In Poor DC Neighborhoods

The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports: A judge on Tuesday ordered Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, two right-wing conspiracy theorists behind robocalls that sought to intimidate Black voters here out of casting mail-in ballots in the 2020 presidential election, to spend 500 hours registering voters in low-income neighborhoods in the Washington, D.C., area. Judge John Sutula placed each on two years …

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BREAKING: Oath Keepers Leader Guilty Of Sedition

Reuters reports: A jury reached a verdict on Tuesday in the criminal trial of Stewart Rhodes, founder of the right-wing Oath Keepers militia group, and four associates, all facing seditious conspiracy charges arising from last year’s U.S. Capitol attack by then-President Donald Trump’s supporters, a lawyer for Rhodes said. The four co-defendants of Rhodes in the trial are Kelly Meggs, …

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MTG Now Claims “Of Course I Denounce Nick Fuentes”

The Washington Post reports: In February, Greene became the second GOP lawmaker in two years to appear at Fuentes’s America First Political Action Conference. Rep. Paul A. Gosar (R-Ariz.) had appeared the year before and drew condemnations, but that apparently didn’t dissuade Greene from doing the same a year later. When the situation again blew up, Greene was actually rather …

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Milo: I Tricked Trump Into Dinner With Nick Fuentes

NBC News reports: Yiannopoulos, a former Breitbart editor who was banned from Twitter in 2016 for inciting a racist campaign against the comedian Leslie Jones, told NBC News that he was “the architect” of the plan to have Fuentes travel with Ye in the hopes of slipping him into the dinner with Trump. The intent, according to Yiannopoulos, was for …

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McCarthy Lies And Double-Talks About Trump/Fuentes

Mediaite reports: Kevin McCarthy denounced Trump’s bombshell Mar-a-Lago dinner with anti-Semitism-spouting Kanye West seconds after saying meeting Ye was within bounds but white supremacist Nick Fuentes was unacceptable. McCarthy got caught falsely claiming Trump had denounced Fuentes. Minutes later, McCarthy was asked about West again, and said Trump “could have meetings with who he wants” but not with Fuentes — …

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West Storms Out Of Interview After Mild Pushback

The Daily Beast reports: The artist now known as Ye stormed out of a sit-down with the reactionary social-media performer Tim Pool, after the host lightly pushed back on Ye’s meandering, paranoid, and yet largely uninterrupted antisemitic rant that opened the show. During a brief pause in his near-monologue, Pool told Ye, “I think they’ve been extremely unfair to you.” …

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Proud Boys Lose Bid To Toss Charges Or Move DC Trial

Law & Crime reports: A federal judge rejected an 11th-hour attempt by Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and co-defendants Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl, and Dominic Pezzola to dismiss three counts of a superseding indictment charging them with conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, civil disorder, and destruction of government property. The defense lawyers argued that because the underlying …

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Loomer Shares Milo’s Posts Claiming Kanye Is Gay

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: In addition to damaging Trump, the West presidential campaign is deepening a rift in the America First movement. Fuentes’ ally Laura Loomer, a far-right activist and failed congressional candidate, is using the news to go scorched earth in attacking Yiannopoulos, whom she blames for sabotaging her recent congressional campaign. Loomer has been posting …

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Walker Refuses Comment On Trump’s Dinner With Nazi

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: Gov. Brian Kemp criticized former President Donald Trump for his dinner with Nick Fuentes, whose unabashed racism and antisemitism has made him the nation’s most prominent white nationalist figure. Republican Senate hopeful Herschel Walker, meanwhile, declined comment through an aide. Kemp told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Monday that he’s proud of the relationship he’s forged with …

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McCarthy Remains Silent On Trump’s Dinner With Nazi

Semafor reports: Few lawmakers were eager to weigh in over a long holiday weekend that made it easy to hide out, with some exceptions. “The Mar-a-Lago dinner was appalling,” Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb. told Semafor. But Trump’s antisemite dinner party couldn’t have come at a worse time for Kevin McCarthy, who has been quiet on the matter. McCarthy needs support …

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Trump Refused Pleas To Disavow Neo-Nazi Leader

The Guardian reports: Donald Trump repeatedly refused to disavow the outspoken antisemite and white supremacist Nick Fuentes after they spoke over dinner at his Mar-a-Lago resort, rejecting the advice from advisers over fears he might alienate a section of his base, two people familiar with the situation said.” The former US president was urged publicly and privately to denounce Fuentes …

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Arkansas Gov: Trump Is “Empowering The Extremes”

“The last time I met with the a white supremacist, it was in an armed standoff. I had a bulletproof vest on. We arrested them, prosecuted them, sent them to prison. “And so, no, I don’t think it’s a good idea for a leader that’s setting an example for the country or the party to meet with an avowed, racist …

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Murdoch’s NY Post Savages Trump Over Kanye West

From the editorial board of the New York Post: “Why wouldn’t I agree to meet?” Donald Trump said of his dinner with Kanye West. Perhaps because Ye has been spewing anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and said he was going to go “death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE”? But no. Ye said some nice things about him on TV — the No. 1 …

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Kanye West Hires Neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes For Campaign

Vice News reports: Continuing Ye’s habit of bringing far-right trolls into his orbit, he has also seemingly brought on board Fuentes and indicated the white nationalist is helping with the campaign. A right-wing blog friendly with those in Ye’s orbit reported Fuentes was in line to be the campaign’s communication director. In the video, Ye said that Trump was “very …

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