White Supremacist Leader Praised Trump Victory, Met With Nazi Salute

At its annual conference in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, National Policy Institute leader Richard Spencer addressed the crowd with “Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory!”, according to The Atlantic.

He also used a Nazi-era propaganda term meaning “lying press” to describe reporters, citing “the mainstream media – or perhaps we should refer to them in the original German, lugenpresse”.

After a meeting with President Obama last week, Trump said he was open to keeping parts of the law that ensure health insurance coverage for people with pre-existing conditions and extend coverage for people up to the age of 26.

It was alarming but not as surprising, when some of the audience members of the 200-strong attendees at a recent conference presided by Spencer raised their hands to a Nazi salute and said, “Hail Trump!” “It is our creation, it is our inheritance, and it belongs to us”.

They rose to offer the Nazi straight-armed salute and responded: “Heil Victory”.

“I disavow and condemn them”, Trump said Tuesday during a wide-ranging, make-nice interview with staff members of the New York Times.

Mr Trump, who is due to take over from Barack Obama on 20 January, is still assembling his White House team but has already courted controversy with some of his choices.

Still, the racist overtones linked with the renegade movement, along with broad misunderstandings of the differences between white nationalism and Trump’s brand of nationalism, have become an albatross around Bannon’s neck.

His forthcoming administration continues to be associated with the alt-right movement due to Stephan Bannon, who was recently tapped to be Trump’s chief strategist.

But Trump denounced the white nationalists Tuesday.

Donald Trump has finally spoken out and condemned the alt-right movement, the group of white supremacists who have praised him in the wake of the presidential election.

As the video began to go viral, Trump met with The New York Times for an exclusive interview, during which he was repeatedly asked about the group’s support.

“I do think we have a psychic connection, or you can say a deeper connection, with Donald Trump in a way that we simply do not have with most Republicans”, Spencer said.

Monday night, CNN aired a segment exploring Spencer’s views that Jews are not people. Although Trump is careful to avoid saying anything explicitly anti-Semitic, his campaign was chock full of anti-Semitic dog whistles.