Chelsea Manning Went To A Far-Right Party Celebrating Trump
Graphic by Angelie Zaslavsky
By Aiden Pink January 22, 2018
Chelsea Manning, the WikiLeaks leaker who served seven years of confinement and is now running for U.S. Senate, attended a party on Saturday night held by prominent far-right activists celebrating the anniversary of President Trump’s inauguration.
BuzzFeed News reported that Manning was hobnobbing at a New York nightclub with Cassandra Fairbanks, who writes for the conspiracist website The Gateway Pundit.
Hundreds of other figures of the far-right were at the party, including many whom the the Anti-Defamation League placed on a “hate speech” watchlist, such as conspiracy theorists Mike Cernovich, Gateway Pundit reporter Lucian Wintrich, and Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes, who once made a video titled “10 Things I Hate About Jews.”
Manning claimed on Twitter that she had “crashed the fascist/white supremacist hate brigade party.” But BuzzFeed reported that Manning was seen “smiling and socializing with attendees.”
“While she was not there protesting, she was there in a effort to bridge gaps between left and right,” a source told the website.
Huffington Post reporter Yashar Ali uncovered a photo on Sunday from last year of Manning participating in an “Escape the Room” in Washington, D.C. with Fairbanks and Wintrich, among other far-right figures who were present at the pro-Trump party.
Manning is running in a Democratic primary in Maryland to unseat incumbent senator Ben Cardin, who is Jewish.
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