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☆ Tucker Carlson is nothing without Fox News, and his sad Twitter broadcast debut proves it
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Tucker Carlson is in trouble, if his first livestream is anything to go by. Without the chyron and quick cuts, Carlson must now compete with the likes of Alex Jones — and he's losing. First off, make no mistake: Tucker Carlson still gets the views. But "Tucker on Twitter" is not "Tucker Carlson Tonight." And of course, Alex Jones, who screams about gay frogs while selling snake oil dietary supplements.

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☆ Marjorie Taylor Greene warns Trump against hiring far-right activist Laura Loomer, calling her 'mentally unstable and a documented liar'
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-08 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The Georgia Republican warned Trump not to hire Laura Loomer to work on his 2024 campaign. Greene and far-right activist Loomer once publicly praised one another, but they are now feuding. The New York Times reported that Trump wanted to hire Loomer, but sources said the plan was scrapped. Greene took to Twitter on Friday to say Loomer is "mentally unstable and a documented liar" who "can not be trusted." Loomer responded with multiple tweets attacking Greene, calling her a liar and describing her behavior as "not very "Christian."

☆ Trump claims Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg is backed by George Soros. Here's why that attack is an antisemitic trope.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-23 | by ( Haven Orecchio-Egresitz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Trump said Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg is backed by the billionaire philanthropist George Soros. To be clear, there is no evidence that George Soros has donated to Bragg. "George Soros and Alvin Bragg have never met in person or spoken by telephone, email, Zoom etc.," Vachon told Insider via email. Neither George Soros nor Democracy PAC contributed to Alvin Bragg's campaign for Manhattan District Attorney." To the far right, Soros represents a member of that cabal, said Lorber, an analyst at Political Research Associates.

☆ Kanye West's hateful comments about Jews may have inspired dozens of antisemitic incidents, report finds
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-23 | by ( Charles R. Davis | Azmi Haroun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The Anti-Defamation League counted 59 incidents in which antisemites cited the rapper formerly known as Kanye West. Overall, ADL researchers found there was a 59% increase in antisemitic incidents last year. Overall, ADL researchers found there was a 36% spike in antisemitic incidents in 2022 compared to the year before, with the ADL tracking just under 3,700 cases across the country, the highest on record. "We're deeply disturbed by this dramatic and completely unacceptable surge in antisemitic incidents," ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said in a statement. The ADL report comes after the FBI last year said that white supremacists "pose the primary threat" of domestic terrorism.

☆ Fox News' Brian Kilmeade praises Trump for being disciplined about not 'having lunch with white supremacists'
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( Sonam Sheth | Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Fox News host Brian Kilmeade praised Trump for having a "very disciplined message." "Since he went and visited East Palestine, stopped having lunch with white supremacists, and has got a very disciplined message," Kilmeade said. He attributed that, in part, to Trump not "having lunch with white supremacists" and visiting East Palestine, Ohio, after a train carrying toxic chemicals derailed in the town last month. The reference to "white supremacists" is likely a nod to Trump's November meeting at his Mar-a-Lago resort with notorious white supremacist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes and the rapper Kanye West, who now goes by Ye. "This is the most disciplined I've ever seen him," Kilmeade said of Trump, "even compared to 2016."

☆ Antisemitism and Israel: 13 Jewish Americans Discuss - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-07 | by ( Adrian J. Rivera | Allison Benedikt | Ms. Benedikt Is Opinion S Editorial Director. Mr. Rivera Is An Editorial Assistant In Opinion. | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

When we first thought about convening a focus group of Jewish Americans, antisemitism was very much at the center of the national conversation. We wanted to understand how antisemitism was affecting American Jews whose daily lives did not necessarily intersect with these high-profile incidents. Many of the people we spoke to expressed fear about rising antisemitism, going so far as to hide their Jewish identities in certain circumstances. When we asked the group about Israel, few had specific thoughts on Israeli politics or policy. Almost all of the participants, however, expressed great pride in the country.

☆ Authorities identified a Capitol rioter because he wore a bright red backpack with his last name embroidered on it
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-06 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Accessories helped authorities to identify him, including a pair of Pit Viper sunglasses. Christopher Carnell, who appeared in a Raleigh court on Thursday, was caught on CCTV cameras with a bright, red backpack with his last name stitched on the back. Other fashion statements that helped to identify him and his friend David Worth Bowman included a pair of Pit Viper sunglasses and a blue facemask. After seizing Bilyard's phone, authorities found a group chat with three of Bilyard's friends, including Carnell and Bowman. Two days after the riot, the group also spoke in code about entering certain parts of the US Capitol Building.

☆ White supremacists behind over 80% of extremism-related U.S. murders in 2022
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-23 | by ( Kanishka Singh | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The advocacy group labeled 25 murders in 2022 as "extremist-related," with 18 of those "committed in whole or part for ideological motives." White supremacists commit the highest number of domestic extremist-related murders in most years, but in 2022 the percentage was unusually high: 21 of the 25 murders were linked to white supremacists, according to the ADL report. "All the extremist-related murders in 2022 were committed by right-wing extremists of various kinds," the ADL report said. President Joe Biden has labeled white supremacy as poison and called on Americans to reject it. The issue of white supremacy came back into headlines late last year when former President Donald Trump hosted white supremacist Nick Fuentes at his private club in Florida.

☆ A Jewish congressman says Twitter has become a 'hate-filled playground for Nazis and antisemites'
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-13 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A Jewish congressman spoke out against antisemitism on Twitter at a House Oversight hearing last week. "Twitter has become a hate-filled playground for Nazis and antisemites," Moskowitz told CNN. "What happened on Twitter directly after the hearing proves my exact point that antisemitism is real and Twitter has become a hate-filled playground for Nazis and antisemites," Moskowitz told CNN. This includes dozens of Twitter users posting pictures of Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes with the caption "You are Jewish." One Twitter user said in response to that video: "You are the reason anti-semites exists.

☆ Jason Miller returns as Trump advisor for campaign struggling to generate much excitement compared to 2016
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-10 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Jason Miller will advise Donald Trump on the strategy of his 2024 presidential bid. He previously left the Trump campaign to become CEO of the right-wing social media platform Gettr. Miller is joining a team that is struggling to generate the same excitement as past campaigns. "It was always a matter of when and not if I returned to help re-elect President Trump in 2024," Miller said in a statement, per Politico. Former Trump White House press aide Sarah Matthews described the campaign launch in a tweet as "low-energy" and "uninspiring."

Under Musk’s leadership, Twitter has slashed its staff, relaxed some of its content moderation policies and reinstated a number of incendiary accounts that were previously banned. Those moves raised concerns that Musk’s Twitter could contribute to a rise in public displays of hate and antisemitism offline. Musk, however, has repeatedly pushed back at claims that hate speech is rising on the platform. Twitter, which eliminated much of its public relations team during last year’s layoffs, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. “With this direct and heightened threat environment in mind, how will you work with other stakeholders to combat the rise of antisemitism on Twitter?,” Moskowitz concludes in his letter to Musk.

☆ Harvard professor emerita says Elon Musk's Twitter takeover is 'fundamentally intolerable' and a threat to political stability
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-31 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Data privacy expert Shoshana Zuboff told the FT that Elon Musk's Twitter is a threat to democracy. The former Harvard Business School professor calls Musk's Twitter takeover "fundamentally intolerable." However, The New York Times reported that racist, homophobic, and anti-semitic slurs have increased on the platform after Musk's takeover. But Zuboff thinks the risks of the Musk takeover and the corporate control of information by big tech are even bigger — and may result in unintended consequences. "These spaces cannot exist solely under corporate control," Zuboff said.

☆ Kanye West paid white nationalist Nick Fuentes nearly $15,000 out of his 2020 campaign funds
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-30 | by ( Charles R. Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Kanye West paid nearly $15,000 to white nationalist Nick Fuentes, per campaign finance records. Fuentes traveled with West to meet with former President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago. A new filing from the occasional rapper's presidential campaign shows those relationships have not come cheap. West's campaign also made payments to another far-right provocateur, Milo Yiannopoulous. According to campaign records, Yiannopoulous pocketed nearly $50,000 from the West campaign: $9,955 for a "Domain Transfer," dated the same day as the meeting with Trump, and $40,000 in mid-December for "Campaign Wrap Up Services."

☆ A leaked internal message appears to show Elon Musk ordered Twitter staff to suspend a left-wing activist's account
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-27 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Anti-fascist activist Chad Loder's Twitter account was suspended in November 2022. A leaked internal Twitter message suggests Elon Musk directly ordered the suspension. Bloomberg reported the internal message as saying: "Suspension: direct request from Elon Musk." Bloomberg said it viewed a screenshot of the message in question, involving the account of Chad Loder, which read: "Suspension: direct request from Elon Musk." Loder's account was one of several prominent left-wing accounts suspended by Twitter in November 2022.

☆ Elon Musk's Twitter just reinstated the account of white nationalist Nick Fuentes, who previously said Hitler was 'cool'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk's Twitter has reinstated the account of white nationalist Nick Fuentes. Fuentes is known for making antisemitic remarks and has praised Hitler, calling him "cool." Fuentes has also praised Hitler in a video repeating that he is "cool" and "awesome." In a December interview with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, Ye — who was joined by Fuentes — praised Hitler and made a number of overtly antisemitic remarks. Musk suspended Ye's Twitter account after the interview over repeated antisemitism saying: "I tried my best.

☆ Trump rivals are delaying declaring their candidacies because he's doing a good job of tripping himself up, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Trump's 2024 GOP rivals are holding off on campaign announcements, Politico reported. a Republican strategist said. a Republican strategist told the publication. Trump has made a number of political missteps since announcing his 2024 candidacy, including having dinner with white nationalist Nick Fuentes. Trump is so far the only Republican to declare his 2024 candidacy ahead of the primaries in March.

☆ Trump poses for photograph with convicted mob boss, in a flashback to controversial dinner with white nationalist Nick Fuentes
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Donald Trump was pictured with a man who is a convicted mob boss, per The Philadelphia Inquirer. The ex mob boss, Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino, said Trump wasn't aware of who he was. Trump, Merlino, and a third unidentified man are pictured in the photograph giving thumbs-ups while at the Trump International Golf Club West Palm Beach in Florida. The photo was widely shared online on Monday, prompting questions as to whether Merlino and Trump knew each other. "President Trump takes countless photos with people," a campaign spokesperson told The Inquirer.

☆ Trump boasts that Mar-a-Lago was a secure place to keep classified documents, despite evidence that it clearly wasn't
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-17 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

"Mar-a-Lago is a highly secured facility, with Security Cameras all over the place, and watched over by staff & our great Secret Service," wrote Trump. In the post, Trump compared Mar-a-Lago to President Joe Biden's "flimsy, unlocked, and unsecured" private residence in Wilmington, Delaware. This was recently spotlighted by the Justice Department investigation into the mishandling of classified documents and presidential records at Mar-a-Lago. The New York Times reported that of the more than 100 classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago, most were located in a non-secure storage area. During its August 2022 raid, FBI agents found classified documents in Trump's "45 Office" — located above Mar-a-Lago's main ballroom.

☆ MTG confronted Boebert in the bathroom, accusing her of taking millions from McCarthy but refusing to vote for him: report
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-17 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Greene accused Boebert of taking money from Kevin McCarthy but not voting for him, sources said. The argument reportedly took place on the day of the first ballot to select the House speaker. One source said that Greene confronted Boebert as she was coming out of a bathroom stall. Greene accused Boebert of taking money from McCarthy for her re-election bid but then not backing him in the House speaker race, the source said, per The Beast. The bathroom disagreement ended with Boebert running out of the bathroom "like a little schoolgirl," the first source told The Beast, adding that Boebert told Greene before leaving the bathroom: "Don't be ugly."

☆ Americans' belief in antisemitic conspiracies, tropes doubles since 2019, ADL survey shows
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-12 | by ( Kanishka Singh | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

WASHINGTON, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Belief of Americans in antisemitic conspiracy theories and tropes has nearly doubled since 2019, an Anti-Defamation League (ADL) survey showed on Thursday. The survey asked Americans how much they agreed with statements expressing anti-Jewish tropes or conspiracy theories and found that more than half of Americans believed at least one, the New York-based advocacy group said. About 85% of Americans believed at least one anti-Jewish trope, compared with 61% in 2019, the ADL said, adding that 20% of Americans believed six or more anti-Jewish tropes, substantially more than the 11% in 2019. About 39% of the respondents in the ADL survey believed Jews were more loyal to Israel than the United States. Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington; Editing by Lisa ShumakerOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Lauren Boebert deepens feud with MTG in wake of House speaker battle, calling her former ally 'unhinged'
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Rep. Lauren Boebert has renewed attacks on former MAGA ally Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. The pair have fallen out in the battle over the House speaker role that tore apart the GOP. Boebert made the remarks to the Associated Press as the battle between the far-right lawmakers over Rep. Kevin McCarthy's becoming House speaker degenerated into name-calling. Their feud erupted into public in December as the McCarthy speaker battle heated up, when Boebert, without being prompted, mocked Greene's past promotion of conspiracy theories. Before the battle over the House speaker role, Greene had been among those that opposed McCarthy.

☆ Trump said he told Ivanka and Jared Kushner not to join his 2024 campaign because people are 'too mean and nasty'
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-27 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Donald Trump said he never asked Ivanka and Jared Kushner to join his 2024 campaign. He said he told them not to be part of it because people would be "too mean and nasty." Recent reports have suggested that the pair are distancing themselves from Trump's politics. "Contrary to Fake News reporting, I never asked Jared or Ivanka to be part of the 2024 Campaign for President," Trump wrote on Truth Social, the social media platform he founded, on Monday. Ivanka did not attend her father's 2024 campaign launch in November, and later told the media that she does not have political ambitions.

☆ Jared Kushner is refusing to help Trump after his dinner with Kanye West, Nick Fuentes, report says
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-24 | by ( Alia Shoaib | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Former President Donald Trump dined with Ye and Nick Fuentes, who have spewed antisemitic hate. Trump's son-in-law was once one of his closest advisors but has since distanced himself, New York magazine reported. Trump's now-infamous November dinner with Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes sparked widespread controversy and condemnation. But they are not getting involved now, according to a new report from New York magazine. Another person speaking to New York Magazine said that perhaps Kushner felt a "familial obligation" to attend.

President Joe Biden is expected to issue a strong condemnation of emboldened antisemitism in the U.S. and around the world during a Hanukkah reception at the White House on Monday. The president will deliver remarks at the event, which he is hosting with first lady Jill Biden, following blessing and a menorah lighting, a White House official said. In his remarks, Biden will forcefully argue that silence is complicity amid rising antisemitic attacks and emphasize that all forms of hate, antisemitism and violence have no place in America, the official said. The Bidens are also expected to mark a new tradition by adding the first menorah to the White House collection. Last week, Biden formed a new interagency group to develop a national strategy to combat antisemitism.

☆ An aide regularly instructs Trump allies to call him and praise him to boost his spirits, report says
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( Tom Porter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Trump has an aide who directs allies to call and praise the ex-president, The Washington Post reported. Trump drew criticism recently when he had dinner with Kanye West and a white nationalist activist. Molly Michael, a former White House assistant, will tell the people to call Trump when "there's nothing going on," the report said. According to The Post, Trump also has an aide who will follow him around on the golf course reading out positive news articles or social-media posts. The situation mirrors that when Trump was president, where Trump steadily moved away from allies who tried to moderate his impulses and instead chose those who went along with his impulses.

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