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3. "America First" originally *was* a Nazi infiltration front group
Sat Dec 27, 2025, 10:51 PM
10 hrs ago
A top MAGA influencer who has the ear of the president is worried in part about Nazi beliefs creeping into the so-called America First movement. Laura Loomer, who has been responsible for numerous firings from the White House based on her independent reports on government officials, took to social media over the weekend to put the GOP on notice.

After June 1941, when Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union, they reversed positions and denounced the AFC as a Nazi front, a group infiltrated by German agents.[50] Nazis also tried to use the committee. The aviator and orator Laura Ingalls' pro-Nazi rhetoric and straight-armed Nazi salutes on her America First speaking tour worried the group's leadership, but they allowed her to continue because of praise from local chapters where she had spoken.[51][52] When Ingalls was arrested in December 1941 and put on trial for being an unregistered Nazi agent, the prosecution revealed that her handler, German diplomat Ulrich Freiherr von Gienanth, had encouraged her to participate in AFC activities.[51] In addition to Ingalls, who was convicted, another America First speaker would be convicted for failing to register as a Japanese agent.[53]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_Committee

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