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Gothmog

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Fri Aug 31, 2018, 05:11 PM Aug 2018

Homeland Security staffer with white nationalist ties attended White House policy meetings

The GOP is full of Nazis https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/homeland-security-staffer-with-white-nationalist-ties-attended-white-house-policy-meetings/2018/08/30/7fcb0212-abab-11e8-8a0c-70b618c98d3c_story.html?utm_term=.d28f0575af93

Ian M. Smith, a Department of Homeland Security analyst who resigned this week after he was confronted about his ties to white nationalist groups, attended multiple immigration policy meetings at the White House, according to government officials familiar with his work.

Smith quit his job Tuesday after being questioned about personal emails he sent and received between 2014 and 2016, before he joined the Trump administration. The messages, obtained by the Atlantic and detailed in a report published Tuesday, depict Smith engaging in friendly, casual conversations with prominent white supremacists and racists.

In one email from 2015, Smith responded to a group dinner invitation whose host said his home would be “judenfrei,” a German word used by the Nazis during World War II to describe territory that had been “cleansed” of Jews during the Holocaust.

Only the trump administration would hire a true nazi like this idiot
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Homeland Security staffer with white nationalist ties attended White House policy meetings (Original Post) Gothmog Aug 2018 OP
Nazis are welcomed in the trump adminstration Gothmog Aug 2018 #1
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NYT columnist: 'More outright white nationalists than black people' in Trump administration Gothmog Aug 2018 #3
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