Thursday, November 8, 2018

White Nationalist Leader Just Posted Pics From White House Visit - Daily Beast

The leader of the white nationalist group Identity Evropa - whose members marched in the August 2017 Charlottesville white supremacist rally - visited the Trump White House, according to pics he posted online.

The group’s motto, "You will not replace us," refers to the racist conspiracy theory that non-white groups are intent on eliminating white Americans.

Sources tell The Daily Beast he could not have reached the location by himself or on a tour.

This triumphant social media posting underscores the degree to which the president has become a magnet for white nationalists, even as he seeks to downplay his ties to them.

The pictures from Casey’s White House visit were tweeted on the same day that President Donald Trump held a press conference in which he bristled when a reporter questioned whether his embrace of “nationalism” encouraged white nationalists.

Trump responded by claiming that the question itself was “racist.”

The reporter who asked the question, PBS’ Yamiche Alcindor, is African American.

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