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Trump staffer fired from Republican Party for being a white supremacist | US elections 2024
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Trump staffer fired from Republican Party for being a white supremacist | US elections 2024

A Donald Trump aide who worked as a regional field director for the Republican Party's Western Pennsylvania was fired Friday after it was revealed he was a white supremacist.

Politico reported it identified Luke Meyer, 24, a Pennsylvania-based field representative who worked for the former president for five months, as the online white nationalist who used the pseudonym Alberto Barbarossa.

Meyer reportedly co-hosts the Alexandria podcast with Richard Spencer, the organizer of the 2017 white nationalist Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, and regularly shared racist views.

“For example, why can’t we make New York white again? “Why can’t we evacuate and retake Miami?” Barbarossa asked during a podcast recording in June.

“I'm not saying we have to be 100% homogeneous. I'm not saying we have to be North Korea or Japan or anything like that. A return to 80% and 90% white would probably be the best we could hope for to some extent.”

After being presented with evidence by Politico linking him to the pseudonym Barbarossa, Meyer acknowledged the connection and confessed that he had kept his online identity secret from his colleagues at Trump Force 47, the Trump campaign's arm, who oversees volunteer mobilization efforts.

“I’m glad you put these little clues together like an Antifa Nancy Drew,” Meyer wrote in an email to Politico. “I realized how stressful it was to have to hide my true thoughts for so long.”

Meyer was hired in June by the Pennsylvania Republican Party, which fired him on Friday, which was confirmed in a text message from the GOP to The Washington Post.

In an email to Politico, Meyer said, “You can cut off my head like the Hydra and hold it up for the world to see, but two more will emerge quietly and work in the shadows.” He suggested that Trump in the Madison Square Garden, said “blood poisoning” in his speeches, installed Odal runes at CPAC, etc. In a few years, one of these groypers (slang for white supremacists) might even quietly bring me back in, with a stern warning to me “To be more careful next time.”

Neo-Nazi groups and the far-right online movement are drawing on the anti-immigrant rhetoric of Trump's White House campaign to attract new supporters and spread their extremism to a wider audience.

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