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UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)
Sat Aug 5, 2017, 02:55 PM Aug 2017

Why Is The Alt-Right Attacking H.R. McMaster?

Far-right American nationalists have launched a campaign to smear President Donald Trump’s national security adviser H.R. McMaster after he fired a number of their allies from the National Security Council.

Mike Cernovich, a figurehead of the so-called alt-right nationalist movement—a loose-knit group of racist white nationalists, conspiracy theorists and misogynists—launched the website McMasterLeaks.com Wednesday to solicit dirt on Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster from inside and outside the White House.

The website does not have a secure drop box to submit leaks or any comment space to post them and consists of a single post of mostly unsubstantiated claims.

The alt-right’s beef with McMaster stems from his firing of Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the NSC’s, senior director for intelligence programs; Rich Higgins, the NSC’s director for strategic planning; and Derek Harvey, the NSC’s senior director for the Middle East.

http://crooksandliars.com/2017/08/why-alt-right-attacking-hr-mcmaster

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bettyellen

(47,209 posts)
4. Those guys folllowing the Tweets coming out of Russia now say
Sat Aug 5, 2017, 03:06 PM
Aug 2017

It's definitely a coordinated effort. It's a great thing that it's being exposed now.

Arkansas Granny

(31,522 posts)
5. He also defended Susan Rice and allowed her to keep her security clearance.
Sat Aug 5, 2017, 03:09 PM
Aug 2017

The alt-right didn't like that.

Kathy M

(1,242 posts)
10. If this got started on Twitter ...... does anyone know who and where it started without
Sat Aug 5, 2017, 03:21 PM
Aug 2017

assuming ........

If journalists have been picking up their stories off of twitter ..... it is not right eventually it will backfire

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