Trump Has Retweeted at Least Four White Nationalist Accounts That Were Later Suspended
According to writing that he left online, the apparent perpetrator of last Friday’s massacre at two mosques in New Zealand believes that the white race and Western civilization are under threat from immigration, particularly Muslim immigration. In the wake of the attack, it’s been pointed out that this belief about “the West” is shared by some of Donald Trump’s biggest online supporters and has been espoused to varying degrees of explicitness by Trump and his advisers themselves.
On Monday, Trump wrote on Twitter that the implication that he thus deserves blame for the mosque killings is “So Ridiculous” (random capitalization his). While it might be unfair to blame even the worst politicians for many radical acts of terror, in Trump’s case, his engagement with online extremists and promotion of their white-nationalist talking points does make the connection stronger—a reality underlined by the fact that, when I went to check on some of the more infamous white nationalism–adjacent accounts that Trump and his son Don Jr. have engaged with since launching his presidential campaign, I found that a number of them have been suspended by Twitter. (You can’t tell from looking at a suspended account why it was shut down, but “abusive behavior” is one of the things you can get kicked off for.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019...d-retweets.html
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