Thread by @ZarinaZabrisky

💥💥Flags half-mast till 8/8? FBI explains: 8/8 stands for Heil Hitler. Thread+article with many examples of Trump's (+his family&administration) coded messages to #WhiteSupremacists & #neoNazis. Pls RT. #WhiteNationalistTerrorism #WhiteSupremacistInChief
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1. On Aug 4, 2019, after 31 killed over the weekend, Trump ordered all flags to be flown at half-mast through Aug 8. Former Assistant Director for Counter Intelligence, FBI, Frank Figgliuzi explained that the US flags would be raised at on 8/8...

2. & that 88 is a coded message “Heil Hitler” recognized by white supremacists and neo-Nazis. He expressed concern about Trump’s choice of speechwriters. However, Trump has a long history of using these coded messages in his speeches. Below are some examples.👇

In September 2016, Trump released an endorsement letter signed by 88 retired military figures. forward.com/news/349362/is…

4. In Feb 2016, Trump retweeted a Mussolini quote by an account. When asked if he wanted to be associated with a fascist by an interviewer, Trump answered negatively but followed with a seemingly random statement containing a number 14...

5. “No, I want to be associated with interesting quotes. And people, you know, I have almost 14 million people between Instagram and Facebook and Twitter and all of that...”washingtonpost.com/news/post-poli…

6. In Feb 2018, the Department of Homeland Security issued a press release with a title: “We Must Secure the Border and Build the Wall to Make America Safe Again.” It consists of 14 words, and its phrasing is strikingly similar to the 14 words of the neo-Nazi movement’s slogan...

7. ...the neo-Nazi movement’s semi-official slogan: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.”

8. The DHS release contained a passage: “On average, out of 88 [asylum] claims that pass the credible fear screening, fewer than 13 will ultimately result in a grant of asylum” and “14 distinct sets of claims.”salon.com/2018/07/06/did…

9. In April, 2018, it was reported that ICE “repeatedly” targeted and apprehended U.S. citizens for deportation by mistake, releasing 1,488 from custody since 2012.thedailybeast.com/1488-us-citize…

10. In Nov 2018, Don Trump Jr. tweeted an attack against independent Maine Sen. Angus King containing fearmongering of the refugees; an attack on Chuck Schumer, who is Jewish; and included “88” (misquoted stats.)

11. On July 15, 2018, Trump campaign announced that it has collected 88 million USD.

12. In September 2018, The Health and Human Services Department recently told Senate staffers that case managers could not find 1,488 children after they made follow-up calls to check on their safety from April through June. apnews.com/aad956b7281f40…

13. Recently, in 2019, Trump tweeted the racist attack on the congresswomen July 14.

14. Steve Bannon, a former senior advisor to Trump, the executive chairman of Breitbart, hired Milo Yiannopoulos as a Breitbart News contributor. Yiannopoulos used 14.88 to intimidate a journalist of Jewish descent.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018…

15. In 2017, Sebastian Gorka, a deputy assistant to the Trump at the time, appeared on the Fox News on the evening of the presidential inauguration wearing a badge, tunic, and ring of the organization listed as having been “under the direction of the Nazi government of Germany.”

16. More on Gorka’s multiple neo-Nazi and nationalists connections medium.com/@ZarinaZabrisk…

17. In June 2018, Melania Trump wore a jacket that said “I REALLY DON’T CARE, DO U?” to visit immigrant children. The slogan is a direct translation of the motto of Italian Black-shirts, ‘Me ne frego,’ Mussolini's slogan. overland.org.au/2018/06/a-brie…

18. In Oct, 2018, Melania Trump wore a French Nazi archaeologist outfit, Dr. Rene Belloq (Indiana Jones.) Below: an alt-right woman dressed up as Sturmbannführer Toht, a right-hand man of Dr. Bellog, at a rally in SF, with a flag of Kekistan, a replica of a Nazi flag.

19. In Aug 2017, after Charlottesville, Trump's administration defunded coutner-terrorist groups. Katharine Gorka, Sebastian Gorka's wife, was instrumental in this act. S.Gorka dismissed concerns about white nationals on the Breitbart radio show.nytimes.com/2017/08/15/us/…

20. None of this is unexpected. A family and personal history of Trump’s sympathy for the Nazi, fascist, Klan and white supremacy movements and ideology has been reported. In 1927, Trump’s father, Fred Trump, was arrested in KKK brawl with police.boingboing.net/2015/09/09/192…

21. In the 1990s, Trump’s cousin who worked for the Trump Organization was reported by Ivana Trump to click his heels and say, “Heil Hitler” on entering Donald Trump’s office.vanityfair.com/magazine/2015/…

22. According to Ivana Trump, from time to time Donald Trump read a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he kept in a cabinet by his bed. Trump admitted that his friend Marty Davis gave him a copy of Mein Kampf, noting that Davis was a Jew...

23. ... Davis said he gave Trump a copy of My New Order, Hitler’s speeches, not Mein Kampf, and noted that he was not a Jew. Trump later spilled wine over Marie Brenner, the author of this article from the Vanity Fair, at a reception.

23. There are more details in the article. For some reasons, this article would not show up on Google search. Please help to share. medium.com/@ZarinaZabrisk…

24. Personal note: My great-uncle made the first film about the Holocaust. All my ancestors were erased by the Nazis in WWII. I ran away from Putin's Russia. I reported from the alt-right rallies in Berkeley and saw the neo-Nazis' insignia & hand signs. Listen: this is fascism.

25. A thread on Trump/Secret coded messages to #WhiteSupremacists ☝️ @WendySiegelman @grantstern @patrickLSimpson @J_amesp @peterjukes @AlexandraChalup @anders_aslund @lukeharding1968 @sineaddesmond @MelissaJPeltier @carolecadwalla @craigunger @RVAwonk @lawnrocket @kate_hammer

24. 23. There are more details in the article. For some reasons, this article would not show up on Google search. Please help to share.medium.com/@ZarinaZabrisk…

25. Personal note: My great-uncle made the first film about the Holocaust. All my ancestors were erased by the Nazis in WWII. I ran away from Putin's Russia. I reported from the alt-right rallies in Berkeley and saw the neo-Nazis' insignia & hand signs. Listen: this is fascism.

ps. Just in: U.S. State Department Official Involved in White Nationalist Movement, Hatewatch Determines. splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019…