You may have heard the name Matthew Heimbach in recent years. In 2016, he was arrested after he assaulted a black woman at a Trump rally in Kentucky. You can see that video below.
In 2017, he was one of the “very fine people” who organized the “Unite the Right” hate rally in Charlottesville, where counter protester Heather Heyer was killed by a Heimbach associate.
Last week he was in Michigan to hear fellow white supremacist Richard Spencer speak at Michigan State University. (Students were on spring break and classes were not in session.) Naturally, Heimbach and his pals once again turned to violence, getting involved in a scuffle and throwing punches before their deplorable presence was turned away by a much larger crowd chanting, “Go home!” and “Nazis suck!” You can also see that video below.
But, this week Heimbach is in the news for his personal life. One that would be fitting for an episode of The Jerry Springer Show. It seems Heimbach has been cheating on this wife with her stepfather’s wife. (Who is apparently not Amber Heimbach’s mother. We can’t figure it out either.) From Vice News:
Matthew Heimbach, the chief of the Traditionalist Worker Party and one of the the most prominent leaders of the American white nationalist movement, was arrested on Tuesday for allegedly attacking both his wife, Brooke Heimbach, and her stepfather—fellow party leader Matt Parrott. According to a police report obtained by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the bizarre events leading to his arrest stemmed from a tryst gone awry.
Apparently, Heimbach and Parrott's wife, Jessica, had an affair that lasted three months. But Heimbach's wife reportedly wanted to see if her husband would continue the fling despite having said it was over, Talking Points Memo reports. On Tuesday, Matt Parrott and Brooke Heimbach reportedly stood on a cardboard box outside a trailer home and spied on their significant others from the window.
According to at least one account in the report, the two began to have sex and Parrott went inside to confront Heimbach. Parrot said he poked Heimbach in the chest, and then Heimbach allegedly "choked him out" and caused him to lose consciousness. When he came to, Parrott took his younger step-daughter to a Walmart and called the cops, telling them that Heimbach's wife may have taken a recording of the encounter. Meanwhile, Heimbach allegedly attacked his wife Brooke, grabbing her face and throwing her onto a bed. He was carted off to the Orange County Jail in handcuffs.
Heimbach has been charged with one misdemeanor count of battery and one felony count of domestic battery in the presence of a child under 16. This latest incident is probably going to catch the eye of the Kentucky judge who waived a jail sentence after he pled guilty to disorderly conduct in the case where he was seen violently shoving University of Louisville student Kashiya Nwanguma at that Kentucky Trump rally in 2016. He has a probation hearing in Kentucky on June 1. Matt Parrot, the White Nationalist spokesman and stepfather to Matthew Heimbach, says he’s done with the movement now.
“I’m done. I’m out,” Parrott told The Southern Poverty Law Center on Tuesday. “SPLC has won. Matt Parrott is out of the game. Y’all have a nice life.”