GOP Officials and Trump Campaign Staff Amplify Antisemitic Site Founded by 9/11 Truther
Multiple Republican Party officials and politicians, including Senior Trump Campaign Advisor Jenna Ellis, shared a story from the antisemitic conspiracy-mongering media outlet The Red Elephants falsely claiming that the 2020 presidential election was being stolen.
As Media Matters reported, The Red Elephants has published lists such as “the names of Jews at the top in media,” with inflammatory and antisemitic headlines like “In Florida, It is Now HIGHLY ILLEGAL to Say ‘Jews Control Hollywood’” and “Meet The Jewish Billionaire Family Behind the Opioid Crisis in America” and “The 25 Jewish Neocons That Got the US Into the Iraq War.” The site also publishes Islamophobic and racist stories, and has numerous headlines rife with anti-Blackness.
The Red Elephants was founded by antisemitic conspiracy theorist Vincent James Foxx, who also goes by the names Vincent James and Vincent James O’Connor, in 2016. Foxx has engaged in Holocaust denial, presented white nationalists in a favorable light, and claimed that Israel was behind 9/11.
In addition to Ellis, Republican Party officials like the Arizona GOP Chair Kelli Ward, and politicians like Congressman-Elect Pete Sessions (R-TX), also amplified the hate sight by sharing the false story:
Ties between The Red Elephants and the Republican Parry are not restricted to the sharing of this article. In the days that followed, The Red Elephants, Republican Party officials, politicians, hate groups like the Proud Boys and white nationalists like Nick Fuentes, worked simultaneously to promote the November 14 Million MAGA March.