Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has thrilled and emboldened his racist online
neo-Nazi supporters with his
refusal to denounce them in a recent CNN interview.
Reporter Julia Ioffe recently wrote a profile of Melania Trump for
GQ which was criticized by Melania Trump for purportedly being unfair.
The Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website that’s
endorsed Trump, responded to Ioffe’s piece by directing followers to “go ahead and send her a tweet and let her know what you think of her dirty **** trickery.”
What followed was a
barrage of anti-Semitic messages and death threats against the reporter. Ioffe
told CNN that Trump fans have been sending her “the most obscene, anti-Semitic stuff I have frankly ever seen directed at me in my life.”
She “also received a call from someone claiming to be from a company called ‘Overnight Caskets.’ ‘We got an email with your phone number saying you'd need our services,’ Ioffe detailed in a post on her Facebook page.”
When The GOP Nominee Refuses To Denounce His Neo-Nazi Supporters
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer
interviewed Trump on May 4 and asked if he would denounce the
anti-Semitic death threats against Ioffe. Trump
refused to condemn the threats, saying he was unaware of them and adding, “I don’t have a message to the fans. A woman wrote a article that was inaccurate.”
