“This logo might not seem like much at first glance. But, as Mediaite details, a number of people noticed that it is nearly identical to one posted by VDare, an anti-immigration Southern Poverty Law Center-designated “hate group” whose website is a platform for white supremacy. Coincidentally, VDare has been in the news in recent days after the Department of Justice came under heavy criticism for distributing a news briefing to government employees that included a link to an anti-Semitic screed on VDare’s site.
As my colleague Jane Coaston has explained, VDare describes itself as focused on the “racial and culture identity of America” and regularly amplifies some of the most notorious white supremacists in the country:
VDare’s perception of itself as focused on “just asking questions” and merely “politically incorrect” is belied by the website itself and its stable of contributors, who include some of the most visible white nationalists in the movement today. That includes [VDare publisher Peter] Brimelow himself, who has argued that America’s immigration policy is “Adolf Hitler’s posthumous revenge on America” and told talk radio host Alan Colmes in 2016 that he would welcome a return to pre-1965 barriers to non-white immigrants because “I think the US is a white nation.”
These are the sources Trump’s digital team appears to be inspired by for content. Here’s an April 2016 tweet from a VDare account that uses the same logo seen in Trump’s video:”
Now let’s talk about the bull’s testicles…