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Tue Jul 21, 2020, 12:41 PM Jul 2020

New Jersey Shooting Suspect Left a Pro-Trump Paper Trail

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The New Jersey Shooting Suspect Left a Pro-Trump Paper Trail

In a trove of documents published online, Roy Den Hollander directed misogynistic and racist insults at U.S. District Court Judge Esther Salas, and expressed support for the president.


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Roy Den Hollander, the self-described “anti-feminist” attorney who authorities say is the chief suspect in the shootings of the son and the husband of a federal judge in New Jersey, attacked that judge by name in misogynistic, racist writings he wrote over a period of years and posted in bulk on the Internet Archive. Den Hollander, who describes himself as a Trump volunteer in his writings, called the judge an “affirmative action” case who affiliated with those who wanted “to convince America that whites, especially white males, were barbarians, and all those of a darker skin complexion were victims.”

____ Along with the attacks on Salas, Den Hollander’s writings also go after President Barack Obama ..., Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor ..., Hillary Clinton..., and an Obama appointee....

In contrast, he writes in the same sprawling document that he was a volunteer for the presidential campaign of Donald Trump, who he said “was telling the truth about illegal aliens in his bid for the Presidency.” Den Hollander describes “leaving the law library in the early afternoon for Trump Tower, 12 blocks up Fifth Avenue, to make telephone calls during the primaries and the general election.” Recounting his time working for the campaign, he says most of his fellow volunteers “were aging baby boomers like me. Once in a while some hot young model chick would show up to make calls. They never sat next to me.” The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a question about the nature of Den Hollander’s volunteer work, or whether they had any record of his involvement...

read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/07/judge-esther-salas-shooting-suspect-left-pro-trump-paper-trail/614425/


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New Jersey Shooting Suspect Left a Pro-Trump Paper Trail (Original Post) bigtree Jul 2020 OP
Guess he proved that he was a barbarian. iemitsu Jul 2020 #1
Yep - a barbarian AND an aged incel Leghorn21 Jul 2020 #3
A pernicious combination of MAGAt and incel. The Velveteen Ocelot Jul 2020 #2

iemitsu

(3,888 posts)
1. Guess he proved that he was a barbarian.
Tue Jul 21, 2020, 12:44 PM
Jul 2020

“to convince America that whites, especially white males, were barbarians, and all those of a darker skin complexion were victims.”

Leghorn21

(13,527 posts)
3. Yep - a barbarian AND an aged incel
Tue Jul 21, 2020, 12:49 PM
Jul 2020

“Once in a while some hot young model chick would show up to make calls. They never sat next to me.”

Some kinda effed up loser/murderer, damn

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