Media Matters reports:
Commentator Ian Smith has shared material denying the Holocaust, defended Nazis as simply “protecting their sovereignty,” said World War II was actually “engineered White genocide facilitated by international usurers,” and attacked Jewish people for being behind “all of these things that are used to control us.” Trump National Doral Miami recently welcomed him as a speaker alongside key Trump officials, including Eric Trump.
As Media Matters previously reported, Trump’s Miami resort hosted the ReAwaken America tour last Friday and Saturday. Among the speakers were Eric and Lara Trump; Trump lawyers Christina Bobb and Alina Habba; former Trump national security adviser Mike Flynn; former Trump economic adviser Peter Navarro; longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone; and former senior Trump Defense Department official Kash Patel.
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Smith appeared on former Fox News host Tucker Carlson show several times to promote anti-vax views.
In January 2022, Smith and his business partner were both sentenced to one year of probation for repeatedly defying New Jersey’s lockdown orders.
Smith reportedly paid $1.5 million in fines. Most or all of the fines appear to have been covered by crowdfunding appeals.
As I’ve previously reported, Smith had become a folk hero to Fox News, winning praise from Fox hosts after literally kicking down the boarded up doors to his gym after the state shut him down for defying COVID regulations.
In July 2020, Fox & Friends exultantly reported live from Smith’s gym during a protest at which white supremacists waved the flag of the Three Percenters militia.
In 2007, Smith pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide in a drunk driving crash that killed a 19 year-old man. He was sentenced in June 2008 to five years in prison. In March 2022 he was again arrested for DUI after refusing a breathalyzer test.
Trump Doral welcomes antisemite who defends Nazis, portrays Jewish people as the enemy, and spreads Holocaust denial https://t.co/6Ux3dNSqRF
— Media Matters (@mmfa) October 16, 2023
Don Jr., Eric & Lara Trump; Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn (pictured); Alina Habba; Jim Breuer, Christina Bobb, Mike Lindell, Ann Vandersteel are among the speakers at this weekend’s ReAwaken America event at the Trump Doral in Miami. HOST CLAY CLARK (pictured) breaks it down. Listen… pic.twitter.com/DAl43vgoGs
— Gary Binford (@gary_binford) October 11, 2023
Watch as Michael Flynn conducts a collection of cash from the audience at the Reawaken America grift-a-thon as Peter Navarro looks on grinning: “We don’t like to do this, but we just had another batch of subpoenas come out of the Jack Smith special counsel.” pic.twitter.com/UepRhlwVKB
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) October 15, 2023
At the Reawaken America grift-a-thon, Michael Flynn is auctioning off a Mike Lindell autographed pillow to raise money for Peter Navarro’s legal fees. pic.twitter.com/mRu6d3fS7g
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) October 15, 2023
At Eric Trump & Michael Flynn’s Reawaken America event today, ‘Latinos for Trump’ founder Bianca Gracia claims her “sources” have told her 55 million migrants have entered the U.S. in last 3 years. pic.twitter.com/HuBVx3WIzt
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) October 13, 2023
Scientology lawyer Leigh Dundas starts Day 2 off by brainwashing people into believing that “frequencies” can cure any disease, but also they are “the leading, bleeding edge” of “the 5th Generation War as General Michael Flynn says.”
“YOUR JOB is to figure out the frequencies…” pic.twitter.com/px3kgcZoqk
— Jim Stewartson, Anti-disinfo activist 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙 (@jimstewartson) October 14, 2023
To close out today’s brainwashing session, @EricTrump ducks a racist question about Michelle Obama & Bigfoot before launching into an excited description about how his father “will uproot the system like we’ve never seen in America.” pic.twitter.com/sjAIu8CgCU
— Jim Stewartson, Anti-disinfo activist 🇺🇸🇺🇦💙 (@jimstewartson) October 14, 2023
