This administration never hid the fact that it is an administration of white supremacists for white supremacists. It just took a little for some officials, like mass deportation accomplice John Kelly, to show their true colors (white). Gotta get rid of all those scary brown grandmothers, right? But one official who never disguised his extremism is Kris Kobach, architect of Arizona’s “Papers Please” law and a man who lives to oppress brown and black people. Even before he was named co-chair of Donald Trump’s voter suppression commission, one white supremacist group floated him as a VP pick. White supremacists have a buddy in Kobach, which is why one of them—a man who pled guilty to assaulting a black woman in 2009—was spotted attending a fundraiser for Kobach’s Kansas gubernatorial campaign earlier this month:
Less than two weeks after citing holocaust denier and racist Peter Gemma in his Breitbart column, Kobach held a fundraiser in Washington, D.C, for his Kansas gubernatorial campaign. At the November 3 event, Kobach posted a photo of himself on his Twitter account with former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. Behind both men, clearly visible, is longtime white nationalist Marcus Epstein.
Epstein has been active in the white nationalist scene for over a decade and even has a past history of racial criminality. In 2009, he pleaded guilty to assaulting an African-American woman in Washington, D.C., two years prior.
Truly deplorable circles. Before going to work for racist blowhards like Tom Tancredo and Pat Buchanan, Epstein helped run the extremist Youth for Western Civilization group. If that name sounds kinda familiar, you’re right: One of the chapters was founded by Matthew Heimbach, “a white nationalist who now runs the Traditionalist Worker Party, a group intimately tied to neo-Nazis and extremists.” Like Epstein, Heimbach pled guilty to assaulting a black woman, this time at a Trump rally in 2016. The next year, Heimbach helped promote the Charlottesville rally that resulted in the horrific murder of Heather Heyer.
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, there’s no indication yet if Epstein donated to Kobach’s campaign, but his mere appearance “is another indication that the Trump era is serving to rehabilitate not only the ideas once relegated to the racist fringe, but also the careers of movement members. It also underscores the social and political circles that Kobach has long moved in.” And, the circles that have moved into the White House and have given us repeat Muslim bans and a mass deportation agenda seeking to whiten America.