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aristarchus [soylentnews.org] writes:

Best to keep The Twitter at arm's length, but Rawstory [rawstory.com] reports, by way of Newsweek [newsweek.com]:

On Friday, Coulter gave a little more credence to those accusations by exposing her Twitter following of just under two million users to Mike “Enoch” Peinovich, an overt white nationalist who has spoken at neo-Nazi events, and has been credited by the Southern Poverty Law Center for creating an infamous anti-Semitic meme.

Coulter retweeted Peinovich's criticism of President Donald Trump over his involvement in the bombing of three government sites in Syria in the early hours of Saturday morning. The United States was joined by the United Kingdom and France in what Trump called a series of "precision strikes."

Peinovich criticized Trump’s response to a “fake gas attack,” regurgitating a conspiracy that has percolated on the far-right since President Bashar al-Assad’s government’s apparent use of chemical weapons to attack his own people in the suburb of Douma earlier this month.

The recent conflict over Syria has provoked a glut of conspiracies on the far-right by pundits that sometimes view military conflicts exclusively through the lens of an anti-Semitic conspiracy. Those sentiments have meant that populist, conservative voices like Coulter and Fox News’ Tucker Carlson have engaged in rhetorical overlap with the sophomoric neo-Nazi website Daily Stormer and the likes of Peinovich.

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