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Sat Sep 9, 2017, 09:27 PM Sep 2017

broken: Liberal family weeps as loving member turns into hatemonger and rising star of the alt-righ [View all]

Michael Enoch Peinovich, whose white nationalist podcast pulls in over 100,000 listeners eager to hear his anti-Semitic, racist rants, has broken his loved one’s hearts — and left the liberal family to ponder how he transformed into a hatemonger and rising star of the alt-right.

Peinovich, who was on hand deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., has left his family broken as they ponder his hateful and drastic transformation.

“He has outright turned his back on and rejected the values of our family and his wife’s family,” his mother, Billie Gleissner, told the Daily News.

“We are all ill at the thought of what Mike has been doing and our hearts are broken.”

Peinovich, 40, who started his blog the Right Stuff and The Daily Shoah — a podcast he co-hosts — has built an immense audience in just three years.


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