Saturday, October 14, 2023 2:36:17 AM
Breaking -- Prominent Far-Right Event Features Antisemitic Speaker Alongside Eric Trump
" Trump Doral event with Eric Trump will feature a Hitler-promoting antisemite who killed someone
https://www.mediamatters.org/eric-trump/trump-doral-event-eric-trump-will-feature-ian-smith-hitler-promoting-antisemite-who "
Good to know RFK Jr. is out.
Molly Bohannon Forbes Staff
I cover breaking news.
Oct 12, 2023,05:13pm EDT
Topline
People cheer and applaud in the main tent during the ReAwaken America Tour at Cornerstone Church in ... [+]Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved
Key Facts
* Smith is scheduled to speak at 1:15 p.m. on Friday, according to a video listing speakers, though they don’t say what Smith will be discussing.
* Smith is popular among the far-right and has recommended neo-Nazi propaganda such as a World War II movie that paints Germany as the victim and questions the taught history of the war, posts memes denying the Holocaust on social media and said on an episode of the far-right The Pete Quinones Show podcast that Jewish people are behind “all of these things that are used to control us.”
* Other speakers at Friday’s ReAwaken America event include My Pillow CEO .. https://www.forbes.com/sites/anafaguy/2023/10/05/lawyers-abandon-mypillow-ceo-mike-lindell-in-election-cases-after-unpaid-legal-fees/ .. and Trump supporter Mike Lindell, and Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security advisor who has become a noted conspiracist .. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/06/us/politics/michael-flynn-qanon.html .
News Peg
In May, two speakers—Scott McKay and Charlie Ward—both had their speaking engagements at ReAwaken canceled after reports of their antisemitic views surfaced from Media Matters for America .. https://www.mediamatters.org/eric-trump/trump-doral-event-eric-trump-will-feature-ian-smith-hitler-promoting-antisemite-who ,a left-leaning media watchdog. The pair “promote anti-Semitic conspiracy theories” to their respective audiences, according .. https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/trump-national-doral-hosts-satanic-conspiracy-peddlers-at-reawaken-america-16944141 .. to the Miami New Times. Media Matters also reported on Jason Dean, a scheduled speaker at the Las Vegas ReAwaken tour who had previously “praised Adolf Hitler for having a ‘vision,’” according to Media Matters. Dean was removed from the conference after the report, as well.
Background
Smith has been a frequent guest on the ReAwaken America tour, which was founded by Flynn and Clark as a conference for “freedom-loving Americans,” according to its website. Smith said on the Moms on a Mission podcast .. https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4011487 .. in August that attendees of the tour supported him financially after his gym was shut down and that he has been to every tour—save for two—since then. The site for the tour claims the 21 ReAwaken conferences over the last two years have been completely sold out, though tickets are still available for this week’s Miami event and the upcoming conference in Tulare, California. According to the Los Angeles Times .. https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-10-12/reawaken-america-trump-maga-qanon-christian-nationalism , at the latest ReAwaken conference in Nevada, almost 70 speakers spoke to attendees about poisonous vaccines, “a cabal of global leaders is engaged in child sex trafficking” and conspiracies that the 2020 election was stolen. In addition to criticism over his antisemitic [means anti-Jewish there] beliefs, Smith faced criticism for multiple drunk driving incidents—one of which killed a man .. https://nj1015.com/ian-smith-family-of-victim-kevin-ade/ .. in 2007. After he made headlines for refusing to close .. https://www.nj.com/news/2020/05/defiant-nj-gym-ordered-closed-by-nj-attorney-general.html .. his New Jersey gym and adhere to Covid-19 protocols, Smith also had an unsuccessful congressional run .. https://ballotpedia.org/Ian_Smith .. in 2022 to represent New Jersey’s 3rd District. In March, Smith and the other owners of the gym were ordered to pay nearly $124,000 in fines, according to the Star-Ledger .. https://www.nj.com/news/2023/03/nj-gym-owners-who-defied-murphys-covid-rules-must-pay-124k-in-fines-court-rules.html .
Further Reading
Media Matters for AmericaTrump Doral event with Eric Trump will feature Ian Smith, a Hitler-promoting antisemite who killed someone
https://www.mediamatters.org/eric-trump/trump-doral-event-eric-trump-will-feature-ian-smith-hitler-promoting-antisemite-who
Newsweek
Trump hotel hosting Holocaust denier days after Israel war breaks out
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-hotel-host-holocaust-denier-israel-war-1834336
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Molly Bohannon
I am a Colorado-based reporter. Before joining Forbes, I covered education and local government in Fort Collins, Colorado. I am a graduate of...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mollybohannon/2023/10/12/prominent-far-right-event-features-antisemitic-speaker-alongside-eric-trump/?sh=475522db57fc
" Trump Doral event with Eric Trump will feature a Hitler-promoting antisemite who killed someone
https://www.mediamatters.org/eric-trump/trump-doral-event-eric-trump-will-feature-ian-smith-hitler-promoting-antisemite-who "
Good to know RFK Jr. is out.
Molly Bohannon Forbes Staff
I cover breaking news.
Oct 12, 2023,05:13pm EDT
Topline
People cheer and applaud in the main tent during the ReAwaken America Tour at Cornerstone Church in ... [+]Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved
Key Facts
* Smith is scheduled to speak at 1:15 p.m. on Friday, according to a video listing speakers, though they don’t say what Smith will be discussing.
* Smith is popular among the far-right and has recommended neo-Nazi propaganda such as a World War II movie that paints Germany as the victim and questions the taught history of the war, posts memes denying the Holocaust on social media and said on an episode of the far-right The Pete Quinones Show podcast that Jewish people are behind “all of these things that are used to control us.”
* Other speakers at Friday’s ReAwaken America event include My Pillow CEO .. https://www.forbes.com/sites/anafaguy/2023/10/05/lawyers-abandon-mypillow-ceo-mike-lindell-in-election-cases-after-unpaid-legal-fees/ .. and Trump supporter Mike Lindell, and Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security advisor who has become a noted conspiracist .. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/06/us/politics/michael-flynn-qanon.html .
News Peg
In May, two speakers—Scott McKay and Charlie Ward—both had their speaking engagements at ReAwaken canceled after reports of their antisemitic views surfaced from Media Matters for America .. https://www.mediamatters.org/eric-trump/trump-doral-event-eric-trump-will-feature-ian-smith-hitler-promoting-antisemite-who ,a left-leaning media watchdog. The pair “promote anti-Semitic conspiracy theories” to their respective audiences, according .. https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/trump-national-doral-hosts-satanic-conspiracy-peddlers-at-reawaken-america-16944141 .. to the Miami New Times. Media Matters also reported on Jason Dean, a scheduled speaker at the Las Vegas ReAwaken tour who had previously “praised Adolf Hitler for having a ‘vision,’” according to Media Matters. Dean was removed from the conference after the report, as well.
Background
Smith has been a frequent guest on the ReAwaken America tour, which was founded by Flynn and Clark as a conference for “freedom-loving Americans,” according to its website. Smith said on the Moms on a Mission podcast .. https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4011487 .. in August that attendees of the tour supported him financially after his gym was shut down and that he has been to every tour—save for two—since then. The site for the tour claims the 21 ReAwaken conferences over the last two years have been completely sold out, though tickets are still available for this week’s Miami event and the upcoming conference in Tulare, California. According to the Los Angeles Times .. https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-10-12/reawaken-america-trump-maga-qanon-christian-nationalism , at the latest ReAwaken conference in Nevada, almost 70 speakers spoke to attendees about poisonous vaccines, “a cabal of global leaders is engaged in child sex trafficking” and conspiracies that the 2020 election was stolen. In addition to criticism over his antisemitic [means anti-Jewish there] beliefs, Smith faced criticism for multiple drunk driving incidents—one of which killed a man .. https://nj1015.com/ian-smith-family-of-victim-kevin-ade/ .. in 2007. After he made headlines for refusing to close .. https://www.nj.com/news/2020/05/defiant-nj-gym-ordered-closed-by-nj-attorney-general.html .. his New Jersey gym and adhere to Covid-19 protocols, Smith also had an unsuccessful congressional run .. https://ballotpedia.org/Ian_Smith .. in 2022 to represent New Jersey’s 3rd District. In March, Smith and the other owners of the gym were ordered to pay nearly $124,000 in fines, according to the Star-Ledger .. https://www.nj.com/news/2023/03/nj-gym-owners-who-defied-murphys-covid-rules-must-pay-124k-in-fines-court-rules.html .
Further Reading
Media Matters for AmericaTrump Doral event with Eric Trump will feature Ian Smith, a Hitler-promoting antisemite who killed someone
https://www.mediamatters.org/eric-trump/trump-doral-event-eric-trump-will-feature-ian-smith-hitler-promoting-antisemite-who
Newsweek
Trump hotel hosting Holocaust denier days after Israel war breaks out
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-hotel-host-holocaust-denier-israel-war-1834336
Follow me on Twitter .. https://www.twitter.com/molboha . Send me a secure tip ..
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Molly Bohannon
I am a Colorado-based reporter. Before joining Forbes, I covered education and local government in Fort Collins, Colorado. I am a graduate of...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mollybohannon/2023/10/12/prominent-far-right-event-features-antisemitic-speaker-alongside-eric-trump/?sh=475522db57fc
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