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A U.S. State Department official oversaw the Washington, D.C.-area chapter of a white nationalist organization, hosted white nationalists at his home and published white nationalist propaganda online, Hatewatch has determined.
The official, Matthew Q. Gebert, works as a foreign affairs officer assigned to the Bureau of Energy Resources, a State Department spokesperson told Hatewatch. Online, and in private correspondences with other white nationalists, Gebert uses Coach Finstock as a pseudonym. Through that alias, he expressed a desire to build a country for whites only.
[Whites] need a country of our own with nukes, and we will retake this thing lickety split, Coach Finstock said on a May 2018 episode of The Fatherland, a white nationalist podcast. Thats all that we need. We need a country founded for white people with a nuclear deterrent. And you watch how the world trembles.
Gebert joined the State Department in 2013 as a presidential management fellow, according to an alumni update published about him in George Washington Universitys GW Magazine that summer. Presidential management fellowships are considered prestigious. The program has a "narrow focus - developing a cadre of potential government leaders," according to a website devoted to the program.
[link:https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/08/06/us-state-department-official-involved-white-nationalist-movement-hatewatch-determines|
tblue37
(65,483 posts)dalton99a
(81,568 posts)AJT
(5,240 posts)so I take it he still works there. He'll probably get a promotion now.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,829 posts)These people aren't just a bunch of overweight fake-militia trash playing soldier in the woods; they're getting into everything, including, apparently, the State Department.
Trump is Hitler, to them.
underpants
(182,868 posts)They really did their homework on this.
Odd that State was where McCarthy thought most of the Commies were.
True Blue American
(17,988 posts)She is going to be mighty hot.
They have those Welcome to Toledo right in front.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,829 posts)True Blue American
(17,988 posts)underpants
(182,868 posts)He seems to have risen quickly with that scum since turning in 2015.
bucolic_frolic
(43,257 posts)they're infiltrating everywhere
pangaia
(24,324 posts)\Obama's fault....