Trump's Troll: Racist Internet Figure Aiding President-elects Transition Team

 Johnson, right, with racist Alt-Right leader Richard Spencer at the 2016 GOP convention.
(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