In trying to understand how the Washington Post overlooked Peter Thiel pal Jeff Giesea funding white nationalism (see below), I began to wonder if the reporters didn't do any digging on Giesea beyond reading his Wikipedia page.
In 2020, I proved that Peter Thiel pal Jeff Giesea helped fund the white nationalist movement in America. He gave thousands to Richard Spencer's org & worked closely w/ extremists.
The WaPo omits that info from this story, which uses Giesea as a source.
So I looked at his Wikipedia page. Well well. It has been scrubbed to remove references to his far-right extremism, many of which I first reported. Here's Giesea's current page and the lingo at the very top:
Here's the top lingo from an older page. Lower down, you'll find more details (all of them accurate) about Giesea's ties to the alt-right. That info was also removed.
It's indisputable that Giesea gave $$$ to Richard Spencer's org. Andrew "weev" Auernheimer, a neo-Nazi, described Giesea as a major alt-right funder. Yet the line below was removed from Giesea's page. The only subjective bit is "major," depending on one's definition.
But it gets weirder. Someone with a Prague IP address made an edit to Giesea's page about Auernheimer.
This editor removed the "false accusation that Mr. Auernheimer is neo-nazi, simply because he was never affiliated with any Nazi party."
I see.
Here's a bonus pic of Giesea having a gas with a man who claims he invented email and Jason Kessler, the white nationalist organizer of Charlottesville's deadly Unite the Right rally.
More bonus:
1) Giesea promoting Darren Beattie & term that echoes Nazi rhetoric to demonize journalists.
2) Giesea suggesting that violence against journos may be justified while referencing the far-right "Day of the Brick" campaign intended to incite violence against journos.
Will Giesea's "nonpartisan think tank" examine these matters further in the interest of "solving real problems?" Does a man so proud of his memetic warfare attack on American democracy in 2016 suddenly have the best interests of our republic in mind?
Hmmmm.
No.
Thank you
@DempseyTwo
for bringing to my attention that Giesea also participated in a Claremont Institute war game before the 2021 election w/ insurrectionist John Eastman and "Red Caesar" advocate Charles Haywood, among others.
The end product of this authoritarian endeavor was an "instruction manual" for how Trump partisans & citizen "posses" of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers could, "quite literally, round up opposition activists, kill their leaders, and install Donald Trump for a second term in office."
@TeresaCCarter2
Nov 9, 2022: U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen issued a bench warrant for the arrest of Andrew Anglin, founder and operator of The Daily Stormer website.