Trump Campaign Blames Ads Running Ahead of Neo-Nazi Content on Video Platform Rumble
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is blaming the video platform Rumble for Trump campaign ads running ahead of a video posted by Stew Peters, an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist who has praised Adolf Hitler and interviewed Nick Fuentes on his show on Rumble.
According to Rolling Stone, a Trump campaign ad playing on Rumble has been seen before a video of Peters in which he calls Hitler a “hero” for presiding over mass book burnings in the 1930s.
In a promo for Peters’s show featuring an anti-Semitic cartoon asking “Why do Jews push pornography & degeneracy on our children?” he claimed that the Nazis were “pushed to their breaking point” by Jews.
“They did exactly what what reasonable people would do,” argued Peters of the Nazis.
Trump campaign ads are being run before segments from “The Stew Peters Show” on Rumble. Just last week, Peters produced this promo video in which he overtly and explicitly praises the Nazis. https://t.co/swB4pVz1HN pic.twitter.com/9kPMNPkA9H
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On X (formerly Twitter) in just the last 24 hours, Peters has claimed that “Jewish Law Requires Women to Take Their Dirty Panties to a Rabbi for INSPECTION,” and has asked Israel’s official Twitter account why it loves “gang rape and feces eating.”
Asked about the ad’s appearance before Peters’s video, the Trump campaign issued the following statement:
We aren’t picking any particular video or channel to run ads on, and we are not given visibility into every single ad that is served during every video. Rumble is ultimately responsible for the ads that are served on any given video on their platform.
Rolling Stone provided some confirmation for the Trump campaign’s explanation for the pairing by noting that the words “generic,” “rumble,” and “video,” all appear in the fundraising URL embedded in the ad.
Rumble itself has not responded to request for comment on the platform’s policies.
