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Trump & Extremist Groups: Sympathies & Connections

This page is part of a resource collection on far right extremism.

Image: Trump ally Roger Stone flanked by Oath Keepers on the morning of Jan. 6.

The Second Trump Administration

January 20.   Tess Owen: Proud Boys Leaders to Walk Free After Trump Releases All January 6 Rioters.

January 20.   Alan Feuer: Trump Commutes Sentence of Stewart Rhodes, Founder of Oath Keepers Militia.

January 21.   AP News: Trump defends pardons for rioters and suggests Proud Boys could have place in politics.

March 30.   Ben Makuch: Trump’s counter-terror cuts will harm fight against far right.

White Supremacist Extremists Back Trump’s 2016 Campaign

Lynn Burnett: Donald Trump’s Deep White Supremacist Roots: From His Father’s Klan Membership to the Klan Supporting His Presidency.

Christina Coleburn: Donald Trump on Racist Endorsement: ‘I Don’t Know Anything About David Duke’: In an interview Sunday morning, Trump would not condemn former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke’s support for his presidential campaign.

Eliza Collins: David Duke: Voting against Trump is ‘treason to your heritage’.

Camila Domonoske:

David Neiwert & Sarah Posner: Meet the Horde of Neo-Nazis, Klansmen, and Other Extremist Leaders Endorsing Donald Trump: The Republican nominee for president has not disavowed any of them.

Trumps Connections with Extremists During His First Administration & Reelection Campaigns

Hannah Allam: 5 Takeaways About The Trump Administration’s Response To Far-Right Extremism.

AP News: Trump and DeSantis court Moms for Liberty in a sign of the group’s rising influence over the GOP.

Zachary Basu & Jonathan Swan: Trump talks with white nationalist Nick Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago dinner.

Kathleen Belew: Why ‘Stand Back and Stand By’ Should Set Off Alarm Bells.

Will Carless: Crowd members hold up white supremacist group’s slogan at Trump/Vance event.

Kyle Cheney: Text message trove shows Oath Keepers discussing security details for Trump associates: Roger Stone and Michael Flynn were among them.

CNN: 1990 report: Ivana Trump told her lawyer Donald Trump kept Hitler speeches beside bed.

Tom Dreisbach: Trump’s Bedminster club hosted an alleged Nazi sympathizer who stormed the Capitol.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro: Stephen Miller And ‘The Camp Of The Saints,’ A White Nationalist Reference.

David Gilbert: Laura Loomer Is MAGA at Its Most Extreme—and She’s Closer to Donald Trump Than Ever.

Eric Hananoki: Trump shared post from N-word-spewing account that claims “Hitler was right” and the Holocaust “never happened”.

Pete Kotz: Armed conspiracy group will defend Republicans at Minneapolis Trump rally.

Andy Kroll: Internal Emails Reveal How Stephen Miller Leads an Extremist Network to Push Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Agenda.

Ben Makuch: Neo-Nazi and far right groups seize on Trump’s anti-immigration rhetoric.

Alex Amend and Jonathon Morgan: Breitbart Under Bannon: Breitbart’s Comment Section Reflects Alt-Right, Anti-Semitic Language.

MSNBC: Trump shares stage with self-proclaimed Oath Keeper at Arizona rally.

Tina Nguyen: Far-Right Trump Adviser Tied to Anti-Semitic Paramilitary Group.

Flynn Nicholls: Swastika Flags Flown During Donald Trump Boat Parade in Florida.

NPR: Former DHS Official: Trump Pouring ‘Fuel On The Fire’ Of Domestic Extremism.

Christian Picciolini: Former Neo-Nazi Says Trump’s Call for Proud Boys to “Stand By” Will Encourage More Violence.

Greg Sargent: A former DHS insider sheds a darker light on Trump’s vile ‘Proud Boys’ comment.

Trump Slashing Resources to Combat Violent White Supremacist Extremism

Nicole Einbinder: The Trump administration has actually cut government resources to fight white supremacy and domestic terrorism.

Ron Nixon and Eileen Sullivan: Revocation of Grants to Help Fight Hate Under New Scrutiny After Charlottesville.

“White Nationalism” in Trump’s First Administration

Sean Collins: Trump once flirted with white nationalism. Now it’s a centerpiece of his White House.

Morning Edition: Experts Discuss White Nationalism And Trump’s Controversial Retweet.

Nell Irvin Painter: Trump revives the idea of a ‘white man’s country’, America’s original sin.

Christopher Petrella: The ominous history surrounding President Trump’s Fourth of July rally: White nationalists have long used the holiday to advance their dreams of a white country.

Zachary Smith: Why Donald Trump’s response to the New Zealand shooting is dangerous:  A lack of vigilance from our leaders could result in white nationalism reentering the cultural mainstream.

Alexandra Minna Stern: Is Trump Building a White Ethnostate? 

Benjamin Swasey: Trump Retweets Video Of Apparent Supporter Saying ‘White Power’.