New York – The anonymous Reddit user who is claiming responsibility for the altered video depicting President Donald Trump body slamming someone with CNN superimposed over his head has a history of racism, anti-Semitism and incitement to violence, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
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White House spokesman Sean Spicer said in a one-sentence email to a JTA request for a response to the ADL report on the gif, “The video did not come from Reddit.” He did not say where the video came from.
Trump tweeted the gif, or graphics interchange format — a short video that is friendly to multiple platforms — on Sunday. It was drawn from a staged encounter years ago between wrestling impresario Vince McMahon and Trump, who are friends.
The president has feuded with the media generally and CNN specifically in recent days. He has seized on CNN’s retracting of a report linking a Trump ally to a Senate investigation, calling the news network a purveyor of “garbage journalism.” He tagged the gif #FraudNewsCNN, and the official White House account, @POTUS, retweeted it.
Jared Yates Sexton, a political commentator who has criticized Trump, was the first on Sunday to trace the gif to a user of the Reddit social media platform and identified racist and anti-Semitic postings by the same user.
ADL in its analysis was more careful, stopping short of confirming that the Reddit user, who goes by the handle HanAssholeSolo, was behind the clip, saying instead that he “appears to have created the version of the edited clip tweeted by the president and posted it on a sub-Reddit commonly used by President Trump supporters.”
It noted that the Reddit user on Monday celebrated Trump’s use of the gif as a personal victory and that other Reddit users congratulated him or her.
ADL’s analysis tracked other memes — or internet themes — launched by the user, including a chart of CNN personalities with the purported Jews among them marked with stars of David and other intimations of Jewish media control.
In another post, the Reddit user, using the pejorative for African-Americans, said: “I just like dancing when n****** are getting beat down by the cops.” He or she also said that the liberal Jewish philanthropist George Soros’s “dead bloated corpse being dragged through the streets would be my satisfaction.”
Fake news.
The preponderance of proof that Herr Trumpf and Gauleiter Sepp Bannon utilze neo-nazi and white supremacist website garbage (infowars) is damning news for the alt-yidden. Besides sicko conspiracy trash like blaming Jews for 9-11 and claiming the attack on the CT Elementary school didn’t happen, they use videos to bait Jews, immigrants and the Free Press. If you’re ok with the threat against Soros, you’re no better than the nazi criminal that said it. Obviously you were on the losing side in WW2.
Any sane person should be sickened by Trump’s violent tweets. The tweet is repulsive and disgusting regardless if it was made by an anti-Semite or not. Trump presents a real danger to democratic values such as freedom of the press. He is vulgar and obscene.His childlike responses to criticism speak volumes about his morals and character. His supporters and defenders are a bunch of unabashed hypocrites who would be going bonkers if President Obama had tweeted something as grotesque as Trump repeatedly has.
Again nazi phobia by the ADL to knock Trump and promote themselves . Anyone remember when the ADL swore that it was anti semetic alt righters who perpratrated vandalism in Jewish cemeteries and threatened Jewish centers ? Turx was so concerned about the rise of anti semetism and who were the real trouble makers ?
To this date, neither the ADL, the Anne Frank Center, and other so-called Jewish civil rights groups, have ever apologized to Trump, for accusing him of being responsible for the threats against the JCC’s. Most (if not nearly all), of those threats came from an Israeli-American, living in Israel. In the USA, there was one arrest of a Black male, who was annoyed at his girlfriend, and decided to threaten JCC’s. Again, not only did those groups not admit they were wrong, but also many on this site, never retracted their idiotic statements, regarding that matter.
All the heimishe yidden who voted for this crude beheima, are really gonna regret it.
the ADL was quiet when raving anti semite lida sasour Y’S spoke at the CUNY commencement in NY greenblatt is a sick twisted lump of corruption that hijacked the ADL through his ties w Obama