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Posobiec is a far-right extremist with a history of promoting falsehoods. He is聽connected to and has taped interview segments with white nationalists and neo-Nazis. He has more than once targeted Jewish reporters with聽antisemitic hate on Twitter聽and also used that site to amplify a march held by a modern incarnation of a Polish fascist movement whose members聽bombed Jewish homes聽during the 1930s. Prior to being hired by OANN, Posobiec became notorious for his involvement in promoting politically charged disinformation. He also put the words 鈥渇mr CBS News鈥� in his Twitter bio in parts of 2016 and 2017, but that company told Hatewatch he never worked for them.

Donald Trump Jr. speaks during a Students for Trump event at the Dream City Church in Phoenix, Arizona, June 23, 2020. (Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

In addition to the photo of the two men together at the We Build the Wall event, Trump Jr. follows Posobiec on Twitter and has done so since before July 2017, according to the app DoesFollow, which gathers data on users of that site. At that time, Posobiec was not yet a correspondent with OANN and was known primarily for supporting President Trump and聽. Beyond following Posobiec, the president鈥檚 son has also periodically聽聽Posobiec, for his part, described Trump Jr. as being 聽in a July 13, 2017, private text message with former anti-immigrant propagandist Katie McHugh, who leaked the correspondence to Hatewatch. 鈥淩edpilled鈥� is a slang word taken from the 1999 film 鈥淭he Matrix鈥� that became popular among online far-right extremists to refer to someone鈥檚 radicalization to their cause. McHugh has since renounced the movement.

We Build the Wall is a charity that pulled in tens of millions of dollars in private donations to build parts of President Trump鈥檚 border wall. The charity gained notoriety last week, when New York federal prosecutors indicted former Trump adviser and anti-immigration activist Steve Bannon, and another defendant, Brian Kolfage, on fraud charges related to the use of donated funds. Bannon entered a plea of not guilty through his attorneys.

Trump Jr. and Posobiec are pictured together at a 鈥淲all-a-Thon鈥� event in support of We Build the Wall on July 30, 2019, in Sunland Park, New Mexico, in an image that was published to 聽of someone who appears to have attended it. Trump Jr. spoke at the event along with a cluster of聽聽such as Mike Cernovich, a male supremacist who has hosted gatherings with聽white nationalists, Michelle Malkin, who writes for聽the white nationalist website VDARE, and Darren Beattie, a former Trump speechwriter who lost his job after 聽on his ties to white nationalists in August 2018. (Congressman Matt Gaetz of Florida, who is also speaking at the RNC on Monday, hired Beattie as a speechwriter 听濒补迟别谤.)

Jack Posobiec (center, with blue tie) attends a Trump rally on Dec. 10, 2019, alongside Raheem Kassam (left, with red hat), co-host of Steve Bannon's "War Room: Pandemic."

Posobiec is linked to both Bannon and We Build the Wall. In April 2017, Posobiec helped lead an event in Bannon鈥檚 name outside the White House, which featured white nationalists and neo-Nazis, as Hatewatch previously reported.聽He later became a regular guest on Bannon鈥檚 podcast, 鈥淲ar Room: Pandemic.鈥� A Polish man named Wojciech Pawelczyk, with whom Posobiec met during a far-right march in Warsaw, Poland, that included neo-Nazi groups, claims to help operate the social media accounts of both men, as Hatewatch also previously reported. Posobiec helped Bannon hype up his We Build the Wall project on a livestream as recently as .

Hatewatch reached out to the Republican National Committee for comment on Trump Jr.鈥檚 relationship to Posobiec but did not immediately receive a response. Hatewatch reached out to Posobiec for comment about his messages with McHugh but did not receive a response. Hatewatch also reached out to Trump Jr. through his current employer, The Trump Organization. The Trump Organization did not immediately respond to the request for comment.

'Don Jr Redpilled AF'

Posobiec sent聽聽to McHugh calling Trump Jr. 鈥渞edpilled鈥� at a time when she was working for the now-defunct junk news website GotNews. Far-right extremist Chuck Johnson, a Holocaust denier who has聽, published GotNews before it聽. Posobiec sent the texts at 10:48 p.m. EDT, according to the time stamp. McHugh recalled to Hatewatch that their conversation that night referred to the president鈥檚 son retweeting Posobiec鈥檚 promotion of a GotNews story about him:

McHugh: Fantastic!!! Thank you for tweeting it!!

Posobiec: Don Jr redpilled AF

McHugh: Dude it is so amazing to have the president鈥檚 son read your site.

Posobiec: Don Jr 2020

Posobiec was immersed in the far right at the time he described Trump Jr. as being 鈥渞edpilled.鈥� A few weeks before Posobiec sent the text, white nationalist Jason Kessler聽accused him of plagiarizing his propaganda, as Hatewatch previously reported.

Trump Jr. has been criticized for promoting and associating with white supremacists before. In July 2016, the website 聽reported that the president鈥檚 son followed 鈥淩icky Vaughn,鈥� a racist and virulently antisemitic Twitter account. In April 2018, HuffPost revealed that Ricky Vaughn was operated by a man named . In , Trump Jr. also retweeted prolific antisemitic author Kevin MacDonald.

Luke O鈥橞rien, an investigative reporter for HuffPost who covers political extremism and disinformation, forwarded to Hatewatch a Feb. 10, 2016, email correspondence he engaged in with Andrew Anglin, the editor of the virulently hateful neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer. In the email conversation, O鈥橞rien asked Anglin who in Trump鈥檚 presidential campaign he believed to be most sympathetic to his neo-Nazi views.

鈥淸Trump] Jr.,鈥� Anglin replied, referring to a meme depicting Donald Trump as a divine ruler. 鈥淲e meme Trump as the God Emperor, but Donald Trump Jr. has the capacity to actually become the God Emperor for real.鈥�

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