Trump Staffer In Pennsylvania Fired After Being Exposed as Prominent White Nationalist
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A key Trump campaign staffer in Pennsylvania was fired from his job last week after he was exposed as a White nationalist who made racist statements online, according to a report.
Politico’s Amanda Moore linked Luke Meyer, the Trump campaign’s regional field director for western Pennsylvania, to an online personality who went by the name Alberto Barbarossa.
Upon reading the report, the Trump campaign dismissed the 24-year-old on Friday of last week. Moore wrote:
Last week, I confirmed that Luke Meyer, the Trump campaign’s 24-year-old regional field director for Western Pennsylvania, goes by the online name Alberto Barbarossa. As Barbarossa, he co-hosts the Alexandria podcast with Richard Spencer, organizer of the 2017 white nationalist Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. On his podcast and others, and in posts online, Barbarossa regularly shares white nationalist views.
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After I presented Meyer with evidence that he was Barbarossa, he admitted the connection and said he has been hiding his online identity from his colleagues on Trump Force 47, the arm of the Trump campaign that runs volunteer organizers.
In a comment to Politico, Meyer reportedly congratulated her for her work and invited her via email in which he also expressed he was pleased he no longer had to hide his views on race.
“I am glad you pieced these little clues together like an antifa Nancy Drew,” Meyer reportedly wrote. “It made me realize how draining it has been having to conceal my true thoughts for as long as I have.”
As Barbarossa, Mayer reportedly guest-hosted a podcast over the summer and asked, “Why can’t we make New York, for example, white again? Why can’t we clear out and reclaim Miami?”
He reportedly added, “I’m not saying we need to be 100 percent homogeneous. I’m not saying we need to be North Korea or Japan or anything like that. A return to 80 percent, 90 percent white would probably be, probably the best we could hope for, to some degree.”
The Pennsylvania GOP said of the matter:
The employee in question was background-checked and vetted, but unbeknownst to us was operating separately under a pseudonym. If we’d had any inkling about his hidden and despicable activity he would never have been hired, and the instant we learned of it he was fired. We have no place in our Party or nation for people with such shameful, hateful views.
Mayer worked for the Trump campaign for five months.
