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Extremists React to Trump Dinner with Ye and Nick Fuentes

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On Tuesday, November 22, 2022, former President Donald Trump hosted white supremacist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes and rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, at his Mar-a-Lago home. Trump’s willingness to associate with figures who have repeatedly spread antisemitic and white supremacist tropes is deeply concerning and has not gone unnoticed by extremists. Fuentes, a white supremacist and rabid misogynist who attended the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in…

November 29, 2022

Extremist Support of Donald Trump

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by: Marilyn Mayo February 28, 2016 Updated March 2, 2016 White supremacists have been enthusiastic supporters of Donald Trump since he announced his candidacy for president in June 2015 with bigoted remarks about Mexican immigrants. Subsequent remarks from Trump about banning Muslim immigration to the U.S served to solidify that support. White supremacists believe that Trump is voicing their own xenophobic and bigoted views toward immigrants and non-whites. David Duke, a racist and anti…

February 28, 2016

QAnon Adherents Reeling in Wake of Inauguration, Trump Departure

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January 22, 2021 Photo Credit: Ted S. Warren/AP Photo Less than one week after President Biden’s inauguration, followers of QAnon—the sprawling, largely incoherent conspiracy theory that has infected not only American discourse but corners of the Republican Party—are struggling to hold onto the conspiracy theory in a post-Trump world. QAnon is tightly tethered to the existence of a Trump presidency, as it cast the former president as the ultimate hero who would use…

January 22, 2021

White Supremacists Celebrate Trump’s Victory

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by: Jessica Reaves November 10, 2016 Not surprisingly, an array of white supremacists, including those associated with the alt right, are celebrating Donald Trump’s win in the presidential election. These extremists are not just reveling in Trump’s victory, they feel they played a role in helping him achieve the highest office in the land. Some, believing that they have been in the vanguard of promoting white interests, are rejoicing that whites working- and middle-class whites…

November 10, 2016

Extremists and Mainstream Trump Supporters Gather for “Million MAGA March”

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November 15, 2020 Thousands gathered in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, November 14, 2020 for the so-called Million MAGA March. Attendees and speakers, including a number of extremists, expressed support for President Trump, who continue to insist, without evidence, that he won re-election nearly two weeks ago. The rally was loosely organized, and speeches, some of which were impromptu, took place in both Freedom Plaza as well as in front of the Supreme Court. While the main rally was mostly…

November 15, 2020

Gunman Who Targeted FBI a Radicalized Trump Supporter, Saw Mar-a-Lago Search as Call to Arms

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On August 11, 2022, Ricky Shiffer reportedly attempted to breach the FBI field office in Cincinnati, Ohio. During the attack he fired a nail gun and brandished an assault rifle, fleeing initially in his car then on foot and exchanging gunfire with police. After a lengthy standoff in a cornfield, he was shot and killed by police. Shiffer, 42, of Columbus, Ohio, is a former Navy sailor. He appears to be an extreme supporter of former president Trump who, like others, considered the FBI…

August 11, 2022

White Supremacists Praise Trump's Inflammatory Immigration Remarks

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Richard Spencer Norway, Trump Immigration

January 12, 2018 White supremacists expressed delight online after President Trump’s reported remarks about “shithole” majority black countries. Mr. Trump made the comments Thursday afternoon during a White House meeting about immigration, asking the assembled group of Senators and Representatives why he would want “all these people from shithole countries,” referring to African nations and Haiti, adding that the United States should admit more people from…

January 12, 2018

Trump Can Make His Israel Trip a Success

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by: Kenneth Jacobson May 17, 2017 This blog originally appeared in The Times of Israel With the announcement of Donald Trump's first visit to Israel next week, it is useful to consider what would constitute a successful trip. President Trump has been talking, in his inimitable way, about restarting peace negotiations and even solving this decades-old conflict that has confounded so many others. In this respect, he is exhibiting similarities to other Presidents who looking out for…

May 17, 2017

Extremists and Mainstream Trump Supporters Plan to Protest Congressional Certification of Biden's Victory

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January 04, 2021 Several pro-Trump protests are being organized on Wednesday, January 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C. to express rejection of the November 2020 election results and to pressure Congress to not certify President-Elect Joe Biden’s electoral victory. These events—which are being timed to coincide with a joint session of Congress where Electoral College votes will be formally counted—have been encouraged by President Trump in multiple inflammatory tweets urging his…

January 04, 2021

Asked to Denounce White Supremacists, President Trump Tells Far-Right Extremist Group to "Stand By"

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September 30, 2020 President Trump name-checked the Proud Boys during Tuesday night’s presidential debate, telling them to “stand by,” and members of the right-wing extremist group could barely contain their excitement. Debate moderator Chris Wallace asked Trump, “Are you willing tonight to condemn white supremacists and militia groups and to say that they need to stand down and not add to the violence?” “Proud Boys, stand back and stand by,”…

September 29, 2020

David Duke and Other Anti-Semites Welcome Donald Trump’s Success

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by: Marilyn Mayo May 05, 2016 On his radio show yesterday, white supremacist David Duke celebrated Donald Trump’s victory in Indiana, which made him the presumptive Republican nominee for president. Duke also used the show as yet another opportunity to promote his virulent brand of anti-Semitism, blaming Jewish “neo-cons” for trying to destroy Trump’s candidacy and for allegedly controlling the country. Duke asserted that “Jewish extremists have made a terribly…

May 05, 2016

Louis Farrakhan Joins List Of Extremists Praising Donald Trump

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by: Oren Segal February 29, 2016 Nation of Islam (NOI) leader Louis Farrakhan made anti-Semitic accusations of Jewish governmental control while praising presidential candidate Donald Trump during the 2016 Saviours’ Day sermon at the NOI’s Mosque Maryam in Chicago on February 28. While Part 1 of Farrakhan’s 2016 Saviours’ Day sermon last week at Detroit’s Joe Louis Arena largely avoided the topic of Jews, in Part 2 of his sermon…

February 29, 2016

White Supremacist Backing Trump Has Ties to Hardcore Racists

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by: Marilyn Mayo January 14, 2016 William Johnson, the head of the white supremacist American Freedom Party (AFP), has paid for a series of robocalls and radio time in Iowa in support of Donald Trump’s candidacy. In a recent interview on CNN, Trump disavowed the robocalls but said that “people are angry at what’s going on.” On the calls, Johnson urges people to support Trump while referring to himself as a farmer and a white nationalist. The calls also include a…

January 14, 2016

A Short History of How Donald Trump Amplifies Extremism & Hate on Twitter

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November 29, 2017 President Donald Trump retweeted three violent, anti-Muslim videos Wednesday. It is just the latest illustration of how the president bolsters and amplifies the messages of extremists and other purveyors of hate. Trump retweeted the videos from the account of Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader of Britain First, a far right extremist anti-Muslim group with ties to the British National Party, a racist, anti-minority neo-Fascist group. Such extremist propaganda is one of…

November 29, 2017

White Supremacists React Gleefully to President Trump's "Rogue" Press Conference

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August 17, 2017 White supremacists are eager to capitalize on the chaos and violence in Charlottesville, and they’re feeling emboldened and validated by President Trump’s weak response to Unite the Right. They view his remarks as a tacit approval of their message. Online -- from Twitter and other mainstream social media platforms to the corners of the dark web -- white supremacists are celebrating the “victory” in Charlottesville, devising plans for their next…

August 17, 2017

President Trump Tells Four Democratic Congresswomen to “Go Back” to Where They Came From

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July 19, 2019 Edition: July 18, 2019 THE WEEK’S BIG 3 President Trump directs “blatantly racist” tweets at four Democratic Congresswomen of color, telling them to “go back” to where they came from. Argentina marks the solemn 25th anniversary of the bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, which killed 85 and wounded 300. White supremacists in Massachusetts have launched a coordinated fliering campaign, targeting area synagogues with propaganda…

July 19, 2019

Third-Graders Allegedly Made to Reenact the Holocaust; Trump Uses Antisemitic Tropes Again; Neo-Nazi Group Distributes Antisemitic COVID-19 Propaganda

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December 23, 2021 THE WEEK’S BIG 3 A staff member from a D.C. elementary school is reported to have told third-graders in library class to reenact scenes from the Holocaust, directing them to dig their classmates’ mass graves and simulate shooting the victim. Former president Donald Trump was condemned by the head of ADL after using antisemitic tropes about American Jews in a recent interview. A virulently antisemitic group with a reputation for mounting propaganda stunts…

December 23, 2021

Facebook upholds Trump ban; Former head of Neo-Nazi group sentenced for swatting; NYC synagogue vandal arrested on hate crime charges

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May 07, 2021 THE WEEK’S BIG 3 Four months after his ouster from Facebook and Instagram, the suspension of former president Donald Trump was upheld by the Facebook Oversight Board. A former leader in a violent neo-Nazi group was sentenced Tuesday to 41 months in prison for harassing journalists who reported on his activities and others. Police arrested a 29-year-old man on hate crime charges in connection with the vandalization of several Bronx synagogues, which included the…

May 07, 2021

FBI tweets link to antisemitic text; President Trump refuses to condemn QAnon; Holocaust-denial still not recognized as hate speech by Facebook

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August 20, 2020 THE WEEK’S BIG 3 An FBI Twitter account tweeted out a link to a PDF containing the antisemitic “Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion,” as well as FBI documents related to it, with no other context. President Trump on Wednesday offered encouragement to proponents of QAnon, a viral and dangerous conspiracy theory. According to a new study, Facebook “actively promotes further Holocaust-denial content to that user” and “has been unwilling…

August 20, 2020

Arabic Language Media Propagate Anti-Semitic Cartoons in Wake of President Trump's Recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's Capital

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December 11, 2017 President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital was widely condemned by Arab governments. Arabic-language media followed suit, and some outlets even used the historic declaration to propagate anti-Semitic cartoons relating to Jews, Jerusalem, and/or U.S.-Israel relations. In some instances, these cartoons suggest that Israel controls or dominates U.S. foreign policy, for example depicting U.S. President Donald Trump as a puppet operated by Israeli…

December 11, 2017