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muriel_volestrangler

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8. The Hill is underplaying this - America First Policies policy advisor Andrade was explicitly Nazi
Sat Jun 9, 2018, 02:30 AM
Jun 2018

The Hill had published opinion pieces from him, so they are probably embarrassed by this - DU almost let this go unnoticed a month ago:

The Hill' Scrubs Articles By Pro-Trump Group Adviser After 'Mediaite' Report on Nazi Remarks

by Tamar Auber | 3:31 pm, May 10th, 2018

The Hill has dropped contributor Juan Pablo Andrade, also a policy advisor for America First Policies after Mediaite published a report on his vile comments praising Nazis.

“As soon as The Hill was made aware of this video and the comments made by Mr. Andrade, we are no longer publishing his opinion pieces and are removing his work from our site,” a spokesperson from The Hill told Mediaite.

Earlier on Wednesday, Mediate‘s Caleb Ecarma published a report that included a Snapchat video of Andrade making provocative remarks while attending a Turning Point USA conference near President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in December.

“The only thing the Nazis didn’t get right is they didn’t keep fucking going!” Andrade is heard exclaiming in the video filmed in a hotel room paid for by Turning Point USA.

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https://www.mediaite.com/online/the-hill-scrubs-articles-by-pro-trump-group-adviser-after-mediaite-report-on-nazi-remarks/


Andrade, aside from his work for the pro-Trump America First group, has quite the resume. Per his LinkedIn account, he worked on Trump’s National Hispanic Advisory Council, Trump’s National Diversity Coalition and the Trump campaign as a surrogate. He writes for The Hill as an opinion contributor and has shared his political opinions on NewsmaxTV, CNN Latino, and Univision. Additionally, he worked for TPUSA as the group’s Florida field director in 2015 and led the group’s informal Latino caucus in 2016, according to sources with direct knowledge of his involvement in the nonprofit.

He was even featured on the 2017 30 under 30s of Newsmax and Red Alert Politics, which are power lists compiling prominent young conservatives in America. Andrade made RAP‘s list in November 2017 — one month before he was recorded praising Nazis.

While it may seem odd that a political figure tied so closely to the Trump administration felt the freedom to endorse Nazi genocide on-camera, Andrade did so in distinctive company. Also in the hotel room was a close friend of Andrade’s, Cesar Subervi, an alt-right activist who participated in the Charlottesville white supremacist march and has been filmed with Richard Spencer.
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Another disturbing video posted to his Snapchat during TPUSA’s summit shows Subervi, who was also a student activist at Coastal Carolina University, saying it was “awesome” that someone who he thought was protesting the conference got run over by a car

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