Johnson, right, with racist Alt-Right leader Richard Spencer at the 2016 GOP convention.
(Source: Little Green Footballs)
(Source: Little Green Footballs)
By Hatewatch Staff
Notorious Internet troll Chuck Johnson, who was banned from Twitter for requesting donations to “take out” a Black Lives Matter activist and was once called “the most hated man on the internet,” is recommending candidates to serve in President-elect Trump's administration.
Johnson appeared Dec. 22
(go to 1:50:20) on Libertarian blogger Stefan Molyneux’s online radio
show in which he said, in addition to buying a house and “knocking up
his wife,” that he had been “doing a lot of the vetting for the
administration, and the Trump transition.” Forbes noted in a recent
story that Johnson doesn’t have an official position, but is working
behind the scenes with members of the transition team’s executive
committee, including Peter Thiel.
Johnson has made a name for himself as a blogger and controversial
online conservative personality trafficking in fake news and conspiracy
theories. He is also known for his trolling, which includes publishing the home addresses of New York Times
reporters he erroneously claimed released the name of the policeman who
shot Michael Brown in Ferguson and the home address of a woman he
claimed was the source of Rolling Stone’s now-retracted story
about an alleged rape on the University of Virginia campus. Johnson
posted a photo of the alleged victim, but the woman, with no relation to
the case, threatened to sue Johnson.
Johnson also has numerous ties to the racist “Alt-Right” and has professed white supremacist views.
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Source: The Southern Poverty Law Center
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