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[quote=jsteele]https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/john-bolton-chaired-anti-muslim-think-tank-n868171

"John Bolton, President Donald Trump’s new national security adviser, chaired a nonprofit that has promoted misleading and false anti-Muslim news, some of which was amplified by a Russian troll factory, an NBC News review found."
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"From 2013 until last month, Bolton was chairman of the Gatestone Institute, a New York-based advocacy group that warns of a looming 'jihadist takeover' of Europe leading to a 'Great White Death.'"
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"Alina Polyakova, a Brookings Institution fellow who studies far-right populism and disinformation campaigns in the European Union, said Gatestone is 'putting out content that was clearly anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim and was echoing some of the Russian disinformation propaganda' being spread by internet trolls and on social media."
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"Geert Wilders, head of the Dutch Party for Freedom and a prominent critic of Islam who is listed as a Gatestone author, was on an RT broadcast last month saying Europe lacks strong political leaders like Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Trump. In a May 2017 post on Medium, Gatestone contributor Yves Mamou called Macron France's 'useful idiot of Islamism.'"
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"Gatestone has also received financial backing from Robert and Rebekah Mercer, the billionaire father-daughter team who have supported conservative candidates in the U.S. including Cruz and Trump. The Mercers also co-founded Cambridge Analytica, the data company being scrutinized by special counsel Robert Mueller as part of his investigation into Trump’s ties to Russia."

There is a lot to unpack here. Let's start with the fact that the Islamophobic chairman of an Islamophobic organization is now Trump's National Security Advisor. This is unacceptable and represents the mainstreaming of Islamophobia. Second, this is a great illustration of how pro-Trump bigots produced anti-Muslim propaganda that was amplified by Russian trolls and RT Television with assistance from the Mercers and Cambridge Analytica.

Consider this report in conjunction with the tape recorded remark by the CEO of Cambridge Analytica:

"'Of course, Hitler attacked the Jews. He didn't have a problem with the Jews at all, but the people didn't like the Jews ... so he just leveraged an artificial enemy,' Oakes told British academic Emma Briant. 'Well, that's exactly what Trump did. He leveraged a Muslim.'"

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/383488-ceo-of-cambridge-analytica-parent-company-compared-trump-campaign-to

Bolton chaired an organization that was a cornerstone in an effort by Trump to treat Muslims the way that Hitler treated Jews (in the words of the Cambridge Analytica CEO). Now he sits in the White House advising Trump on national security.

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