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Reporter @WIRED covering disinformation, online extremism, and election hucksters. Got a tip? DMs open. Signal: @DavidGilbert.01

Jul 21, 2020, 6 tweets

The man who authorities believe shot and killed the son of a federal judge on Sunday says he worked as a volunteer on Trump’s 2016 election campaign

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Roy Den Hollander, who was found dead from a suspected gunshot wound on Monday, is an self-described anti-feminist who left a long trail of racist and misogynistic writing online

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One lawsuit, claiming women should not be excluded from the military draft, came before Judge Esther Salas.

In his 2000+ page collection of writings, he says Salas was “driven by an inferiority complex”

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Den Hollander spent a year in Russia, where he married a woman he describes in not very flattering terms:

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He says he volunteered for the Trump campaign in 2016. He says most volunteers were, like him, old, but "nce in a while, some hot young model chick would show up to make calls. They never sat next to me.”

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He also tried to get hold of Clinton’s stolen email through a GRU contact and sued 30 journalists who he says were being unfair to Trump.

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