David Friedman was profusely apologetic about his incendiary rhetoric attacking liberal Jews, but was less than forthcoming about his involvement with a far-right West Bank institution.
David Friedman was profusely apologetic about his incendiary rhetoric attacking liberal Jews, but was less than forthcoming about his involvement with a far-right West Bank institution.
At press conference, president tells one reporter to sit down after asking, and then blames incidents on ‘the other side.’
Extremist anti-Muslim organizer with President Trump's ear has an answer to calming the waters after the Flynn debacle –– another extremist with a dubious track record.
Far across the radical right –– a movement of violence and terror that demands martyrs –– violent domestic terrorists are being lionized. But a Wisconsin congressman insists on minimizing the threat from the radical right.
Radical lawyer Kyle Bristow has started a new foundation that aims to become the legal arm of the racist radical right
The campaign language of the man who would become president sparks hate violence, bullying, before and after the election
On Dec. 4, a 28-year-old North Carolina man bearing a handgun and a military-style rifle stormed a Washington, D.C., pizza joint called Comet Ping-Pong, determined to “self-investigate” rumors that the restaurant was the center of a child sex-slave ring with connections to the Clinton campaign. Edgar M. Welch, of Salisbury, N.C., who fired his weapon inside the restaurant but injured no one, later admitted “the intel on this wasn’t 100%.”
Much has been made of the rise in racist and xenophobic rhetoric, anti-Muslim attacks, and anti-Semitic trolling in the wake of Donald Trump’s ascent, and rightly so. But just as Trump’s promises to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, block Muslim immigration, and restore “law and order” have emboldened nativists and racists, so has his history of casual misogyny and alleged sexual assault (“grab them by the pussy”) energized an explicitly sexist element within the noxious “Alt-Right” movement.
The story of 2016 was one of right-wing extremists ascendant. But even as young racist radicals gained attention and influence, important members of the generation that preceded them passed away. Among them:
Last December, an armed, 28-year-old North Carolina man stormed into a Washington, D.C., pizza parlor called Comet Ping-Pong, bent on investigating the stories he’d heard about it being part of a child sex-slavery ring closely tied to the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton. Before it was over, Edgar Welch had fired a shot that harmed no one, but terrified restaurant customers and staff alike.
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