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Luke Meyer, 24, worked as a paid regional field director for Trump Force 47, a joint effort of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, the Republican National Committee and state and local Republican parties. He was hired in June by the Pennsylvania Republican Party, which fired him Friday, he confirmed to The Washington Post in a text message.
Meyer, under the pseudonym Alberto Barbarossa, was also secretly cohosting the podcast “Alexandria” with Richard Spencer, a white nationalist who was a scheduled headline speaker at the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, according to Politico, which first reported Meyer’s firing.
Meyer admitted he was Barbarossa after Politico confronted him with its reporting. “I am glad you pieced these little clues together like an antifa Nancy Drew,” he wrote to Politico contributor Amanda Moore.
“Like the hydra, you can cut off my head and hold it up for the world to see, but two more will quietly appear and be working in the shadows,” Meyer wrote in an email to Moore, according to Politico. “Slating Trump to speak at [Madison Square Garden], putting ‘poisoning the blood’ in his speeches. … In a few years, one of those ... [white supremacists] might even quietly bring me back in, with a stern warning for me to ‘be more careful next time.’”
Meyer, under the pseudonym Alberto Barbarossa, was also secretly cohosting the podcast “Alexandria” with Richard Spencer, a white nationalist who was a scheduled headline speaker at the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, according to Politico, which first reported Meyer’s firing.
Meyer admitted he was Barbarossa after Politico confronted him with its reporting. “I am glad you pieced these little clues together like an antifa Nancy Drew,” he wrote to Politico contributor Amanda Moore.
“Like the hydra, you can cut off my head and hold it up for the world to see, but two more will quietly appear and be working in the shadows,” Meyer wrote in an email to Moore, according to Politico. “Slating Trump to speak at [Madison Square Garden], putting ‘poisoning the blood’ in his speeches. … In a few years, one of those ... [white supremacists] might even quietly bring me back in, with a stern warning for me to ‘be more careful next time.’”
