Scrambling to distance himself from self-proclaimed Nazi candidate

Former President Donald Trump in the past had repeatedly praised North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson as a "star" in the Republican Party.

However, after CNN exposed Robinson's past writings on a pornography website in which he described himself as a "Black NAZI," said he would prefer to have Adolf Hitler leading America than former President Barack Obama, listed the benefits of bringing back slavery, and boasted of engaging in a wide range of sexual degeneracies, Trump is apparently getting cold feet about being associated with him.

Axios reports that Trump's campaign is "alarmed by the idea that North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson's political baggage and incendiary rhetoric will be a drag on Trump's prospects in the crucial swing state on Election Day."

"This is an issue that has to do with Robinson's campaign and not President Trump's campaign," a Trump campaign official told Axios in seeking to distance Trump from Robinson.

"Team Trump's concerns began earlier than this week and were more deeply rooted: The latest revelations were just the last straw," the publication writes. "Michael Whatley, chairman of the Republican National Committee, has previously acknowledged that polls showed Robinson running behind Trump in North Carolina — a sign that Robinson might undermine votes for Trump."

The Haitian community in Springfield, Ohio, is in a helluva lot more danger right now thanks to the convicted felon, Donald J. Trump, than Trump ever was while working hard as always on the campaign trail at a golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday.

Further, AMERICA is in a helluva lot more danger right now, thanks to the America-attacking Donald J. Trump, than it has been in recent memory, because this soulless bully has spent the past nine years sowing violence and spreading lies and distrust in a country he’d rather split in two than unify.

President Donald Trump doubled down on his false claims that Haitians are stealing and eating people’s pets in Springfield, Ohio.

Then, he tossed another small Rust Belt community into the national spotlight.

“Likewise, a small 4,000-person town, Charleroi, Pennsylvania,” Trump said. “Have you ever heard of it? Charleroi. What a beautiful name. But it’s not beautiful now. It’s experienced a 2,000 percent increase in the population of Haitian migrants under Kamala Harris.

“So, Pennsylvania: Remember this when you have to go to vote,” Trump added.

The sudden burst of attention by Trump and his allies on the borough of Charleroi in Pennsylvania’s Mon Valley is yet more evidence that the campaign is leaning into racial scapegoating as an electoral strategy to win critical swing states, even as critics warn the rhetoric could spill into vigilante violence.

Let's call Springfield what it is: Republican-made terrorism

Trump and his MAGA allies' focus on Charleroi appears to have begun on Sept. 11, when a shadowy nonprofit linked to a former speechwriter for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign posted an interview with a pro-Trump member of the Charleroi borough council.

The language in the X post by the nonprofit America 2100 is markedly similar to what Trump would say at his campaign rally the following day.

“It isn’t just Springfield; it’s happening everywhere,” the post reads. “In Charleroi, Pennsylvania — a low-income town of just 4,000 — the immigrant population has increased by 2,000% over the past two years. It’s almost all Haitians.”

The America 2100 post was boosted when Donald Trump Jr. re-posted it only 10 minutes later.

Nate Hochman, a senior adviser to America 2100 and the only person publicly identified with the nonprofit, was fired from the DeSantis campaign in June 2023 after reportedly making a video featuring the Sonnenrad — a symbol also known as the Black Sun that is associated with Nazis — and tweeting it from a pro-DeSantis account.

Previously, Hochman had praised Nick Fuentes, a white supremacist who has denied the Holocaust and made numerous antisemitic statements. Hochman said on a December 2021 Twitter Space chat that Fuentes had “gotten a lot of kids based, and we respect that for sure.” He added: “But the fact that you’ve said super edgy things means that there’s a pretty strong ceiling to what you can accomplish in politics.”

Hochman, a former intern at the Claremont Institute’s American Mind magazine and now a contributor at the American Spectator, announced on X on Monday that he was making a road trip to Charleroi “to report on the Haitian immigration crisis.”

Over the course of the week, Hochman posted video after video on the America 2100 X account, featuring interviews with local white residents who were unhappy about their new Haitian neighbors.

In one interview, a white man identified as “Tom” complains that the Haitians “have no interest in our culture” and that they open their own groceries “at the main drag of town.” The X post identifies Tom as “a lifelong native,” although the video shows Tom saying he moved to Charleroi in 2017.

In a video posted on Thursday, a man identified as “Ernie” laments that Charleroi “used to be a nice, middle-of-nowhere blue-collar town.”

Hitting all the bases:

Social media critics roundly denounced former President Donald Trump suggestion Thursday that if he loses the 2024 election to Vice President Kamala Harris, Jewish people would have a "lot to do with" it.

Trump made the comment at a summit about combating antisemitism in the country, which was hosted by Jewish philanthropist Miriam Adelson.

“In my opinion, the Jewish people would have a lot to do with a loss,” Trump said at a summit on fighting antisemitism in America. "If I'm at 40%, think of it, that means 60% are voting for Kamala, who in particular is a bad Democrat. Democrats are bad to Israel. Very bad. They'll never change because they have a section of their party now which has become amazingly, quickly very powerful vote-wise."

Trump then repeated a campaign attack against Senate Majority Chuck Schumer (D-NY), calling him a "Palestinian."

"Who would've thought that was going to happen? What the hell happened to him?" attacked Trump. "I saw him the other day. He was dressed in one of their robes. That'll be next."

Amy Spitalnick, CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, called Trump's comments "dangerous antisemitism — intended to sow division and distrust and undermine our democracy."

"And it’s going to lead to (more) violence against Jews," she warned. "Everyone who cares about Jewish safety should call this out. It cannot be considered partisan to do so."

Spitalnick called for the former president to stop "dividing Jews into 'good' and 'bad' camps."

"Stop labeling those who don’t support you as crazy or disloyal," she demanded. "Stop playing into dual loyalty tropes. All of it makes Jews less safe."

The Grand Old Party is once again up to their grand old slimy tactics of trying to divide and conquer us. They are eagerly planting the seeds of discord and hate, poisoning the wells of reason and hope, and then having the unmitigated gall to tell us that they alone can heal the patient they have so clearly tried to sicken.

Too many people will recognize this as a textbook case of abuse. If Americans are hopeful and healthy, the abusive Republican Party will have lost their power and control over their victims.