Ambassador to the unhinged underbelly: Don Jr exposed as Trumps liaison to the fanatical fringe

[riversedge]

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/ambassador-unhinged-underbelly-don-jr-exposed-trumps-liaison-fanatical-fringe/


‘Ambassador to the unhinged underbelly’: Don Jr exposed as Trump’s liaison to the fanatical fringe

08 Apr 2018 at 13:24 ET


In a look into the Twitter career of President Donald Trump’s oldest son, observers point out that Trump has deployed Don Jr., his namesake, as his online ambassador to the radical and fringe right that trades in conspiracy theories while being slavishly devoted to the president.

According to Politico, Donald Trump Jr. is “one of his father’s key ambassadors to the fringe, promoting theories that added drama and visceral energy to the grass-roots right.”


Speaking with Politico, former Breitbart exec Kurt Bardella said that Don Jr’s Twitter account serves the purpose of amplifying extremist rhetoric by way of retweets of Twitter comments that might be too out there, even for the normally untrammeled president.

“Empowering conspiracy theorists and fringe voices with an endorsement from the president of the United States’ son will only amplify the ignorant at the expense of everybody else,” explained Bardella before adding, “A retweet or like is an explicit endorsement by Donald Trump Jr.”

According to Politico, Don Jr. recently accused YouTube of covering up for the shooter who assaulted their campus before turning her gun on herself, tweeting out his complaints to his 2.7 million followers.

“You think there’s any chance whatsoever that a mass shooters hateful Instagram and YouTube channels would be pulled immediately if they were NRA members as opposed to liberal Vegan PETA activists?” Trump Jr. tweeted . “Asking for a few million friends in the @NRA”.........

Link to tweet

[Angry Dragon]

1. Just a strange family

[Mc Mike]

2. I remember his 'deplorables' instagram pic. He also got sent to Philadelphia MS right after

the convention.

So he's in charge of the 'business', and in charge of being buddies with the nazis.

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. When an ex-Breitbart exec warns they "amplify the ignorant at the expense of everybody else"

you know it's bad.

[Achilleaze]

4. republican elephant-assassin Dirty Donny Junior is a piece of work

...no wonder his wife has run for the exit, republican "values" being what they are...Sad.

How poisonously ironic that the repubes hold up the elephant as their essential symbol, and then they put a fekken elephant assassin in the White House under the auspices of his diddling daddy, their very own ignoble republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief.

What kind of perverse subliminal message are repubes emitting with this dark fustercluck?

[riversedge]

6. Trophy hunting is deplorable.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Trump's base trusts and likes Jr. because he hunts.

He's just like them when he puts on his checkered flannel jacket, goes upstate NY to his cabin, and has coffee at the local diner.

And he does pot shots at Trump targets like they do.

The Base doesn't view him as Brooks Brothers material as much as a regular guy.