Trump retweets far-right activist after condemning hate groups

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President Trump retweeted a far-right activist hours after calling out for the first time specific hate groups for their role in last weekend's violence in Charlottesville, Va.

The president retweeted Jack Posobiec, who shared a story about shootings in Chicago and questioned where the "national media outrage" was.

"Meanwhile: 39 shootings in Chicago this weekend, 9 deaths. No national media outrage. Why is that?" Posobiec tweeted Monday.



The retweet came after Trump on Monday said "racism is evil" and for the first time called out the KKK, Nazis and other hate groups for their role in the weekend's violence in Charlottesville, Va.

“Racism is evil and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to what we hold dear as Americans,” Trump said in public comments from the White House.

Posobiec, a supporter of Trump in the election, is known for promoting alt-right conspiracy theories. He has promoted the discredited assertion that the Democratic National Committee was behind the killing of former employee Seth Rich and pushed the false "pizzagate" allegations against the Hillary Clintoncampaign that led to an armed man firing off rounds in a D.C. restaurant.

Trump had faced backlash over the weekend for his initial comments about the violent clashes in Virginia.

The president blamed "many sides" for what happened in Charlottesville and did not specifically mention white nationalists, neo-Nazis or any other group that marched.

 

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Picture of him with neo-nazi Richard Spencer.

 

[Maschine_Man]

Picture of him with neo-nazi Richard Spencer.

Richard Spencer....

 

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TRUMP RETWEETS ALT-RIGHT LEADER WHO HAS PRAISED WHITE SUPREMACIST RICHARD SPENCER

Prosobiec, a Trump activist who writes for Rebel Media, a Canadian-based online political news commentary publication. is currently helping organize multiple alt-right rallies similar to the one in Charlottesville in cities throughout the U.S. this coming weekend. He has in the past defended white supremacist Richard Spencer.

Spencer, who was one of the leading figures at the Charlottesville march. claims to have coined the term “alt-right” to make the group’s views more palatable. He has said repeatedly that his vision for America is a white ethno-state.

Soon after Posobiec’s tweet gained Trump’s attention, Prosobiec sought to distance himself from Spencer, calling the latter a “scumbag.”

Posobiec’s relationship with Spencer, however, goes back at least a year. Last September he praised Spencer in two tweets as “indispensable” and said “the media can’t get enough of” him. Posobiec has since deleted both posts. Posobiec also posed with Spencer at the Republican National Committee where Trump won the GOP’s nomination last June.

A Newsweek analysis of Twitter shows there is significant overlap in the alt-right figures that both men follow on social media and that Posobiec and Spencer both followed each other on Twitter as recently as December 2016.



In a tweet Tuesday Posobiec claimed that the “altright hates me.” Even so, some of the most prominent members of the alt-right follow him on Twitter.

Posobiec has also played a leading role in conspiracy theories advanced by the alt-right online such as Pizzagate, which accused Democrats of running a child sex ring out of a Washington D.C. pizza parlor, and the murder of Seth Rich, who the alt-right claims was killed by Democrats after he leaked the party’s emails to Wikileaks. The group calls American intelligence agency findings that Russia hacked the Democratic party’s emails a hoax.

When Spencer and his white supremacist National Policy Institute were blocked from speaking at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. in September 2016, Posobiec sprung to his defense, saying he is “not sure why they are being censored.”



Posobiec has often also tweeted about “white genocide,” which J.M. Berger, a fellow with George Washington University’s Program on Extremism, identified as a phrase used to recruit members to the white nationalist cause in a September 2016 report.

Posobiec responded to the photo of him and Spencer, claiming that it was faked, even though it was posted to Spencer's Twitter account. The media will “do anything to smear conservative Trump supporters,” he said.

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[Kilgore Trout]

Trump is a nazi


This was simply a dog whistle to his core letting them know he is still on their siide.

 

[PerrinN]

isn't that the guy who got caught plagiarising someone's work

 

[KillbertArenas]

 

[AndroidHero]

isn't that the guy who got caught plagiarising someone's work

Yes.

The Rebel Media Apologizes Over Jack Posobiec Plagiarism Allegations - The Daily Caller

 

[88m3]

Trump is a WS

 

[fact]

I hate the cocksucker, both of them. I am happy that Posobiecs sorry existence will be under a microscope now though.

 

[Strapped]

Maybe he should look into the systematic prejudices blacks face . Housing ,jobs ,& crooked judicial system. The stereotypical bad looks,being set up by coppers, harsh sentences,good ol boys clubs on the job, nepotism ,unions & himself in the mirror

 

[The Fukin Prophecy]

I love how every single time CACs commit a terrorist act they always change the subject to bu bu but Chicago...

Somebody should tweet that article to the orange moron about guns in Chicago turned into police mysteriously finding their way back to the streets...

 

[LeVraiPapi]

I hate the cocksucker, both of them. I am happy that Posobiecs sorry existence will be under a microscope now though.

You're one of the realest white dudes ever. We appreciate u being in the battlefield wit us. When we say white people,that excludes you breh and we hope you know it

 

[ezrathegreat]

When is the media gonna stop faking like they dont know that Trump's a white supremacist?

 

[bzb]

trump can read whatever from a teleprompter, but his initial response (or lack thereof), body language, and actions exposed his true feelings. this retweet and his alliance with bannon and gorka speaks volumes of what's really in his heart.

this is the first president in decades that i really believe holds deep racist views and openly sympathizes with racists like it's nothing. he has to go or he will destroy the country from the inside out.