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Trump Is Wrong. Columbia Isn’t Anything Like Charlottesville

REWRITING HISTORY

I survived the deadly violence in Charlottesville, and am now a postdoctoral research scholar at Columbia University. To compare the two is unwarranted—and unconscionable.

Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Published Apr 30, 2024

WH Hits Back at Trump’s Bogus Charlottesville Comparison

‘LITTLE PEANUT’

“Unlike some figures on the right, President Biden has never invited Neo Nazis and Holocaust deniers over for lunch,” the White House said in a statement to The Daily Beast.

William Vaillancourt | Published Apr 25, 2024

Trump: Charlottesville Was a ‘Peanut’ Next to Gaza Protests

‘TERRIBLE’

The former president invoked the deadly “Unite the Right” rally to criticize Joe Biden.

Dan Ladden-Hall | Published Apr 25, 2024

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Oklahoma Councilman Faces Recall Over White Nationalist Ties

NOT OK

Judd Blevins marched alongside neo-Nazis at the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville and has consistently refused to condemn them.

Amanda Yen | Published Mar 30, 2024

The Lawyers Who Refused to Let Neo-Nazis Off the Hook

VERY FINE PEOPLE

The new HBO documentary “No Accident” reveals how the Charlottesville organizers were finally held accountable years after the deadly “Unite the Right” rally.

Nick Schager | Published Oct 10, 2023
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Nazi Rally Tiki Torcher Kills Himself Before Smuggling Trial

BITTER END

Teddy Joseph Von Nukem, one of the most prominent faces from the 2017 neo-Nazi rally, was set to face trial for smuggling fentanyl across the southern border.

Jose Pagliery | Published Feb 14, 2023
opinion

It’s Not a ‘Hoax’—Trump’s ‘Very Fine People’ Did Not Exist

ON MANY SIDES

The right’s revisionist history that Trump unequivocally denounced the neo-Nazis is bullsh*t. He invented fictitious “regular” folks protesting over a Robert E. Lee statue.

Anthony L. Fisher | Published Aug 12, 2022
opinion

I Survived Charlottesville—Justice Still Hasn’t Been Served

ON MANY SIDES

Five years since the murder of Heather Heyer, the government and law enforcement still coddle right-wing extremists and criminalize peaceful left-wing protesters.

Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Published Aug 11, 2022
opinion

Why Republicans Won’t Confirm a Renowned Holocaust Scholar

NOTHING ‘NEFARIOUS’?

“When she was announced, my immediate reaction was ‘slam dunk’! I was just stunned she didn’t sail through.”

Eleanor Clift | Published Jan 12, 2022
opinion

He Ran Over BLM Protesters—but Apparently That’s Not a Crime

OFF THE HOOK

He joked on social media about running down protesters and fled the state after actually doing it “to get out of a situation that he felt was dangerous to his family.”

Kali Holloway | Published Sep 29, 2021

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