These prominent white supremacists interacted with the Pittsburgh shooting suspect on social media
Robert Bowers shared an anti-Semitic post from a Republican candidate that urged "Get out there and save your people!"
In the aftermath of last weekend’s
massacre of 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue by an anti-Semite, an all-too-familiar refrain commonly heard made the rounds: The male suspect was a
“lone wolf” whose violence was unpredictable and thus couldn’t have been prevented.
President Donald Trump, who has regularly
dabbled in or flat-out
embraced anti-Semitic tropes,
expressed surprise that anti-Semitism still existed in 2018 in his first public
remarks following what was likely the
deadliest anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history.
However, an analysis of the social media activity of Robert Bowers, who has been
charged with federal hate crimes over last weekend’s massacre,
revealed that he trafficked in many of the conservative conspiracy theories about a
migrant caravan that have been rceently amplified by prominent Republicans, including
Trump,
Vice President Mike Pence, and House Majority Leader
Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).
Bowers frequented Gab, a social media platform that has become a sanctuary
for white supremacists who are
banned from Twitter. Bowers reportedly posted on Gab about his plan to kill Jewish people mere hours before the shooting.
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