Trump Son Praises Date Rape Apologist
Have You Heard of Mike Cernovich?
Donald Trump Jr. Tuesday morning lauded a highly-controversial “alt-right” activist who spreads fake news and conspiracy theories. Known as a “date rape apologist” and for promoting conspiracy theories like “Pizzagate,” Mike Cernovich has now written about who ordered the “unmasking” of Trump team members.
Cernovich was called a “date rape apologist” by The Daily Beast last year. In now-deleted tweets, Cernovich has written, “Have you guys ever tried ‘raping’ a girl without using force? Try it. It’s basically impossible. Date rape does not exist,†and, “Not being a slut is the only proven way to avoid AIDS. If you love black women, slut shame them.â€
The BBC reported last year that “alt-right activists, conservative journalists, and others who had urged Clinton’s prosecution over the emails – took up the ‘pizzagate’ cause with renewed vigour.” Cernovich’s tweet, under a different Twitter name than his early date rape remarks, claims “Pizzagate is not going to go away, this story will be huge!” It is the first one the BBC listed. Another example, of many:
Paul Ryan and Ben Sasse are also part of #pizzagate. https://t.co/LBXV0aeyJr
— Mike Cernovich 🇺🇸 (@Cernovich) November 24, 2016
Cernovich also promoted the claim Hillary Clinton has Parkinson’s, despite no medical reports supporting the conspiracy theory.
One example:
Clinton is fading now, she can’t last longer than 90 minutes, Parkinson’s drugs wearing off. #DebateNight
— Mike Cernovich 🇺🇸 (@Cernovich) October 20, 2016
Last year The New Yorker profiled Cernovich, calling him “the meme mastermind of the alt-right” in an article titled, “Trolls for Trump.”
So it’s troubling although not at all surprising, given his father’s history of tweeting, that Trump Jr. is praising Mike Cernovich, after the conspiracy theorist published a story titled, “Susan Rice Requested Unmasking of Incoming Trump Administration Officials.” Rice is former President Barack Obama’s National Security Advisor. If she did request any unmasking, she was fully within her rights as the National Security Advisor to do so, as this video explains:
Watch this handy explainer from the Jeremys, Jeremy Bash & @jwpetersNYT, on Susan Rice & why unmasking is quite routine. via @ChrisJansing pic.twitter.com/oigd2LXMT7
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) April 3, 2017
But Donald Trump Jr. thinks Cernovich deserves a Pulitzer:
Congrats to @Cernovich for breaking the #SusanRice story. In a long gone time of unbiased journalism he’d win the Pulitzer, but not today!
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) April 4, 2017
Some responses via Twitter:
This is who Donald Trump Jr thinks should be awarded a Pulitzer. https://t.co/rOtkvs0LXM pic.twitter.com/WJuOyCNIfF
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) April 4, 2017
Donald Trump Jr. thinks Mike Cernovich deserves a Pulitzer.
Two days ago he tweeted a totally wrong story. Still up.https://t.co/QgvqWGA9Bn pic.twitter.com/EokuPw84M2— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) April 4, 2017
Don Jr. is congratulating a known pusher of fake news and conspiracy stories. pic.twitter.com/8gAppnInJ7
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 4, 2017
@DonaldJTrumpJr Here’s a link to the Pulitzer @PulitzerPrize from 50 years ago: https://t.co/sifjWAr54K Great journalism exposing water pollution in WI
— Roland Scahill (@rolandscahill) April 4, 2017
@DonaldJTrumpJr @PulitzerPrize Maybe we should go back to 1960 when there was a pulitzer winning piece on nepotism in government https://t.co/eGtfcdHrXJ
— Roland Scahill (@rolandscahill) April 4, 2017
@DonaldJTrumpJr Yes, Junior, just gads and gads of potential Pulitzer Prize winning material from this *journalist* you esteem so highly. pic.twitter.com/EwMTgIE1G6
— 🇺🇸ðŸ¶Kat RossðŸ¶ðŸ‡ºðŸ‡¸ (@Pences_balls) April 4, 2017
@DonaldJTrumpJr @Cernovich Because in your little and misogynistic mind, finding out a woman did her job is “breaking” news.
— Sandra Barron (@curts1girl) April 4, 2017
@DonaldJTrumpJr @Cernovich You mean identifying criminals by name in classified US intelligence reports?? What a scandal!! Oh the horror of unmasking traitors!
— Diane (@DianeWatson51) April 4, 2017
Here is the man @DonaldTrumpJr just praised, saying “date rape does not exist” and much more. A truly despicable human being. pic.twitter.com/2PNTHVx35p
— Shaun King (@ShaunKing) April 4, 2017
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