White Nationalism in the White House: Administration Faces New Revelations About Ties to Far Right
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Multiple people close to Donald Trump have direct ties to white supremacists. Trump's top economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, has admitted he recently hosted white nationalist publisher, Peter Brimelow, at a birthday celebration at his home. Brimelow founded the anti-immigrant website VDARE.com. Meanwhile, Trump's speechwriter Darren Beattie was fired last Friday as revelations surfaced that he had spoken at a conference alongside prominent white nationalists, including Brimelow, in 2016. Beattie was a panelist at the H.L. Mencken Club conference, an event the Southern Poverty Law Center calls a gathering of "white nationalists and pseudo-academic and academic racists." We speak with Richard Cohen, president of the Southern Poverty Law Center.