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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump donor: "We are racists. But we do not regard this as a smear, but as a badge of honor"
Polignano is the managing editor and webmaster for Counter-Currents, a website and publishing company that publishes white nationalist and pro-Hitler material. Polignano describes himself as a racist (a badge of honor) and has written that Jews have to leave America because they are a major cause of Americas problems; claimed theres been more than a century of lies about the Civil War and Reconstruction, and more than half a century of lies about the Third Reich and World War II; claimed blacks are inferior to whites; and cited David Duke as an inspiration for his work.
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Polignano has donated a total of $214.12 this election cycle to Trumps presidential campaign, according to Trumps Federal Election Commission filing. Polignanos ties to the white nationalist Counter-Currents are readily apparent -- Trumps FEC report listed Polignanos employer as Counter-Currents Publishing and his occupation as managing editor and webmaster.
Polignano wrote on his personal Facebook page in May that hes visiting Trump Tower again on Monday to purchase more Make America Great Again hats and offered to buy the hats for his European comrades who could not legally purchase them because the hats qualify as a campaign contribution:
He wrote that he is happy to be called a racist and does not regard this as a smear, but as a badge of honor (emphasis in original):
Youll be smeared as racists.
Of course we will. We are racists. But we do not regard this as a smear, but as a badge of honor. Race is real. Different races are genetically capable of different ways of life, just as different breeds of dog are genetically capable of different ways of life. American civilization cannot be maintained by replacing Whites with non-Whites anymore than poodles can replace sheepdogs and chihuahuas can replace sled dogs. Racism is an objective and enlightened viewpoint, and we will not apologize for it.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/09/14/trump-campaign-accepts-donations-white-nationalist-leaders/213080
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Trump donor: "We are racists. But we do not regard this as a smear, but as a badge of honor" (Original Post)
kpete
Sep 2016
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world wide wally
(21,755 posts)1. Fucking deplorable
lunatica
(53,410 posts)2. Polignano is free to add 'deplorable' in front of the word racist
they should definitely advertise themselves so we can pivot and swerve away from them.
Imperialism Inc.
(2,495 posts)3. Is that legal? To "bundle" money from foreigners
with the express purpose of making a donation to the Trump campaign on their behalf? I'm going to guess not.