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4. Trail of racist and anti-transgender posts
Mon Aug 19, 2019, 01:10 PM
Aug 2019

By Josh Kovensky
August 16, 2019 2:24 pm

... after Trump complained that immigrants were coming into the U.S. from “shithole countries,” Wagshol posted memes riffing on the term.

In one post, a meme appears to show the popular 23andme genetic testing kit offering consumers the opportunity to discover “which shithole country are you from?” ...

The 22-year old frequently used racial slurs in the posts, and appears to have been fixated both on transgender people and on the FBI ...

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/brandon-wagshol-connecticut-racist-trump-transphobic-posts

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