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Trent East -- a white nationalist @HaralsonSheriff jailer (currently suspended) and @AlabamaNG member -- who we recently exposed, was interviewed in today's @TimesGeorgian.

East crams a surprising amount of untruths into a short space.

First, Trent East states that it was a "surprise" he was exposed as a white nationalist.

In late 2017, Trent East joked about how he almost got "doxxed" (i.e. identified as a participant in white power movements.)

East continued to network with white supremacists & neo-Nazis, advertising his racist & far-Right allegiances.

What happened next should surprise no one.

Trent East claims that he was not involved in anything "dangerous" while his "Ravensblood Kindred" circulated the same "white genocide" lies that inspired recent massacres at Christchurch, New Zealand mosques.

After discussing how his membership in the Asatru Folk Assembly hate group is merely innocent (whites-only) religion, Trent East then claimed that his networking with other white nationalists was exclusively "about his religion".

One of the fascist organizers Trent East was in contact with is Colton Williams of the Legion of Saint Ambrose. ("Cole Williams III" on Trent East's friends list archive.fo/CGRg6 )

Legion of Saint Ambrose is explicitly "Christian" white power group.

(Pic of Trent East's buddy Williams marching in Knoxville above.)

Are we to believe that Williams & East just engaged in interfaith dialogue, without reference to shared white nationalist convictions?

Not very plausible.

The Wotan Network, which Trent East openly affiliates with, is a white nationalist project whose mission statement demands and end to "ongoing genocide of white people" and "OUR [own] homelands" for white people.
web.archive.org/web/2018041800…

(East wearing Wotan Network shirt in pic)

Ken Reed of the "White Lives Matter" racist group is another of East's online pals. Reed used an image of the Christchurch, New Zealand gunman as his Facebook profile pic.

Unlikely that @HaralsonSheriff Deputy Sheriff East just engaged in lofty spiritual conversation with Reed.

More religious conversation from Deputy Sheriff East, this time with the "Racial Consciousness" Twitter account.

Finally, the biggest whooper of them all.

@AlabamaNG guardsman and @HaralsonSheriff jailer East claims that he believed that a speech by racist leader Richard Spencer would just be about "Confederate monuments", and that East left early when Spencer began with white power stuff.

Here's what Trent East wrote on the "Ravensblood Kindred" Facebook page following Richard Spencer's event at Auburn. (Archive: web.archive.org/web/2019040818…)

Note that East refers to racist Ryan King (League of the South) as one of "our guys". East includes Nazi salute "Hail victory!"

Trent East arrived to the event with a sign featuring white nationalist slogan.

When Trent East left the Spencer event, it was with @GeorgiaGuard white nationalist/"Ravensblood Kindred" member Dalton Woodward, plus the rest of Richard Spencer's supporters, after speech finished.

We hope East's lies fool no one.

Our original article about Trent East: atlantaantifa.org/2019/04/09/whi…

Further info on Trent East's friendship with Atomwaffen Division neo-Nazi Corwyn Carver:

https://twitter.com/afainatl/status/1116859354634956800

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