A key staffer for Donald Trump, who co-hosts a white nationalist podcast in secret, is no longer with the campaign. Trump campaign officials fired Luke Meyer, who was the regional director for western Pennsylvania, on Friday, Nov. 1, after learning about his views from Politico.
Reporter Amanda Moore linked Meyer to an online personality going by the name Alberto Barbarossa. Meyer, undercover as Barbarossa, regularly shared his white nationalist views on the “Alexandria” podcast with co-host Richard Spencer.
Spencer organized the 2017 white nationalist Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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Spencer recently announced he endorsed Kamala Harris and said he’s not affiliated with any political party.
After Moore got an anonymous tip about Meyer, she started investigating. Meyer found multiple clues to verify the tip. One tip included Barbarossa proudly tweeting that he shared a birthday with the former grand wizard of the KKK. Court records showed Meyer also did.
That’s when Moore decided to drive to a Trump campaign event and confront Meyer about Alberto Barbarossa.
Meyer admitted that he’s Barbarossa and he’d been hiding the online identity from the Trump campaign.
He wrote an email to Moore that said, “I’m glad you pieced these little clues together like an Antifa Nancy Drew.”
“It made me realize how draining it has been having to conceal my true thoughts for as long as I have,” Meyer said.
Moore said Meyer explained to her that he felt his white nationalist views had already spread to the campaign.
The Republican Party of Pennsylvania told Politico, “If we’d had any inkling about his hidden and despicable activity he would have never been hired.”
Meyer deleted his Linkedin and X accounts, as well as his Barbarossa X account.
