NEW: The military, since 1/6, claims to be confronting extremism in its ranks. But according to a new @HuffPost investigation, a prominent white nationalist just graduated boot camp.
For years McCaffrey has hosted a racist and anti-Semitic podcast featuring friendly interviews with some of the most infamous fascists in America, including Richard Spencer and Andrew Anglin.
The evidence of his life as a white nationalist was only a Google search away, & he even got thrown off volunteering duties for Andrew Yang’s presidential campaign in 2019 due to his affiliations.
The FBI was also aware of McCaffrey’s involvement in the far right, HuffPost has found, but was either unaware that he joined the military, or was aware and didn't bother to alert the Dept. of Defense. huffpost.com/entry/extremis…
After a previous series of @HuffPost investigations helped expose 11 members of Identity Evropa in the military, 6 were kicked out, but the other 5 were allowed to remain in the armed services. huffpost.com/entry/extremis…
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The Great Replacement conspiracy theory is explicitly white nationalist & elitist, and Tucker — a frozen food fortune heir who went to private New England boarding school, then Trinity, & is now a millionaire making propaganda at behest of billionaires — is definition of elite
New: I took a closer look at how a sitting US congressman, @RepGosar, gave a keynote speech at a white nationalist “groyper” conference one week ago, & has since faced little repercussions for doing so.
“Great meeting today with Congressman Gosar,” tweeted Nick Fuentes, a 22-year-old Holocaust denier who once compared Jews killed in Nazi gas chambers to cookies baking in an oven. “America is truly uncancelled.” huffpost.com/entry/paul-gos…
It's hard to overstate how extreme & loathsome Fuentes and his Groyper Army truly are, and why it's an emergency that a US congressman would give them his blessing
.@proflevin told HuffPost he predicts the national FBI data for 2020, once it’s released this fall, will show a “century-high” number of hate crimes targeting Asian Americans. huffpost.com/entry/anti-asi…
.@RepGraceMeng blamed racist rhetoric from public officials: "Although Trump is no longer in office, his past anti-Asian rhetoric and use of terms like ‘Chinese virus’ and ‘Kung-flu’ continues to threaten the safety of the Asian American community." huffpost.com/entry/anti-asi…
New: updated @HuffPost tally finds 57 state & local GOP officials at Jan. 6 rally that turned into the insurrection, most of whom are now resisting calls to resign.
These GOP officials included an extremist sheriff who discussed harming members of Congress, a town council member who is closely affiliated with the neo-fascist Proud Boys, and a county commissioner from Florida who once discussed beheading liberals. m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_60…
There were at least:
- 16 GOP members of state houses or assemblies
- 4 state senators
- 1 state AG
- 6 county commissioners
- 7 city council members
- 2 mayors
- 3 school board members
- 2 state GOP chairs
- 2 prosecutors
In 2019 I wrote a series of stories exposing a dozen US servicemen as members of the white nationalist group Identity Evropa
Among them were 2 National Guardsmen....both of whom, after being exposed as fascists, were allowed to stay in the National Guard huffpost.com/entry/white-na…