Trump staffer fired from Republican party for being a white supremacist
Source: The Guardian
Tue 5 Nov 2024 06.22 EST
A Donald Trump staffer who worked as a regional field director for the western Pennsylvania Republican party was fired on Friday after it was revealed that he was a white supremacist. Politico reported it had identified Luke Meyer, 24, a Pennsylvania-based field staffer who worked for five months for the former president, as the online white nationalist who used the pseudonym Alberto Barbarossa.
Meyer reportedly co-hosts the Alexandria podcast with Richard Spencer, the organiser of the 2017 white nationalist Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia and regularly shared racist views. “Why can’t we make New York, for example, white again? Why can’t we clear out and reclaim Miami?” Barbarossa asked during a podcast recording in June.
“I’m not saying we need to be 100% homogeneous. I’m not saying we need to be North Korea or Japan or anything like that. A return to 80%, 90% white would probably be, probably the best we could hope for, to some degree.” After being presented with evidence by Politico linking him to the Barbarossa alias, Meyer admitted the connection and confessed that he had been concealing his online identity from fellow members of Trump Force 47, the arm of the Trump campaign overseeing volunteer mobilisation efforts.
“I am glad you pieced these little clues together like an antifa Nancy Drew,” Meyer wrote in an email to Politico. “It made me realise how draining it has been having to conceal my true thoughts for as long as I have.” Meyer was hired in June by the Pennsylvania Republican party, which fired him on Friday, in a move confirmed in a text message by the GOP to the Washington Post.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/05/trump-staffer-fired-from-republican-party-for-being-a-white-supremacist
His "work" is now successfully done to identify and target the racist slime of western PA to get out to vote, and his "services" are no longer needed (coupled with the necessary feigned outrage).
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and put him back to work.
I wonder what was his “tell”?
What an asshole! I bet he tries to push a big lawsuit on Politico, and it gets thrown out of court in 10 seconds.
By the way ... unrelated to the news story ... this guy's name is "Meyer" and some people might assume it's a Jewish name. It's not Jewish, it's German. So he might be from a Pennsylvania Dutch family or some other German-American ancestry. Thanks for making us all look bad, you asshole!
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