Donald Trump Jr. Followed Ex-Congressman Joe Walsh After His Threat Against Obama and BLM
Donald Trump Jr. (above left) has taken a large role in his father’s campaign, appearing in the media frequently to defend Dad’s latest outrageous comments and reportedly playing a large role in the firing of campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.
He’s made himself fair game in this campaign; he’s not a family member trying to protect his privacy, he’s actively seeking publicity as a surrogate for his father.
You may have heard about the ugly threat ex-Congressman Joe Walsh posted on Twitter against President Obama and Black Lives Matter:
Former congressman Joe Walsh (@walshfreedom) has deleted this outrageously racist tweet threatening the president pic.twitter.com/zgTnj40FOj
— Cooper Fleishman (@_Cooper) July 8, 2016
Walsh deleted this tweet when people began pointing it out, but Mic’s Cooper Fleishman notes that this threat gained Walsh a high-profile follower: Donald Trump Jr.
Today I checked Walsh’s list of Twitter followers, and Trump Jr. quietly unfollowed him sometime after Fleishman’s article was published.
This isn’t the first time Trump Jr. has followed racists and extremists on Twitter, and it isn’t the first time he’s unfollowed them after being caught at it, either.
As we reported exclusively at LGF, shortly after his father got in trouble for posting an attack on Hillary Clinton widely seen to include antisemitic imagery, Trump Jr. began following two of Twitter’s well-known, utterly disgusting “alt-right” personalities, and favorited tweets by them.
These are people who openly traffic in racism and antisemitism, and as we documented, have even posted Nazi-era antisemitic propaganda to their Twitter feeds.
When we published our article about it here at LGF, within hours Trump Jr. had unfollowed both of these hateful individuals. But the son of the Republican nominee for president is still following another “alt-right” extremist, a well-known apologist for white supremacism and racism, and an overt misogynist: Breitbart’s Milo Yiannopoulos.
Clearly, the far right racism and extremism routinely espoused by Donald Trump runs in the family.
