Donald Trump Jr.

[[File:Donald Trump Jr.png|thumb|right|165px|Like father, like son.]]
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{{cquote|The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. It's pretty clear now that Trump Jr. lies just about as much as his father.|||Rep. Ted Lieu<ref>[https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/363937-dem-rep-on-trump-jr-apple-doesnt-fall-far-from-the-tree/ Dem lawmaker on Trump Jr.: ‘Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree’] by Josh Delk (12/08/17 11:07 AM ET) ''The Hill''.</ref>}}
'''Donald John "Stank"<ref>[https://boingboing.net/2020/11/30/trumps-sons-high-school-nicknames-were-stank-and-choad.html Trump's sons' high school nicknames were "stank" and "choad".] by Rob Beschizza (7:17 am Mon Nov 30, 2020) ''Boing Boing''.</ref> Trump Jr.''' {{lived|1977}} is the eldest failson<ref>[https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/06/january-6-committee-hearings-trump-children/676670/ Trump's Failspawns Take a Turn at the January 6 Hearings, And it has been embarrassing for Donald’s kids] by Molly Jong-Fast (June 15, 2022) ''The Atlantic''.</ref> of disgraceful current [[President of the United States|president]] [[Donald Trump]], who like his father, is a [[conspiracy theorist]] and an extreme [[wingnut]]. He has also hinted he will run for office in the future, just to have '[[pwn]]ed the libs'.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/25/donald-trump-jr-2024-picture 'This will make lib heads explode': Donald Trump Jr posts 2024 picture]</ref> That he is relevant at all, despite never having held office, only being wealthy by dint of [[nepotism]], and barely even qualifying as a talking head, is a sad display of what a [[personality cult]] the [[GOP]] has become. He is important to conservatives simply by being the son of Donald Trump.

==Racism==
Junior has been known for pushing the [[white genocide]] conspiracy theories. He retweeted a post on [[Twitter]] about white genocide.<ref>[https://www.cnn.com/2016/01/22/politics/donald-trump-retweet-white-genocide/index.html Donald Trump retweets ‘White Genocide’ Twitter user] by Tal Kopan (Updated 12:40 PM EST, January 22, 2016) ''CNN''.</ref> He also said that [[Mike Cernovich]], who supports the theory, should get a Pulitzer Prize.<ref>[https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/trump-jr-wants-mike-cernovich-to-win-pulitzer-1.5457714 Trump Jr. Wants 'Alt-right' Personality Mike Cernovich to Win Pulitzer] (Apr. 5, 2017) ''Haaretz''.</ref> Another strong indicator of [[racism]] is his willingness to appear in a public event with somebody like the [[alt-right]] figure [[Jack Posobiec]].<ref>[https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/08/24/donald-trump-jr-pictured-we-build-wall-event-neo-nazi-collaborator-jack-posobiec Donald Trump Jr. Pictured at 'We Build the Wall' Event With Neo-Nazi Collaborator Jack Posobiec] by Michael Edison Hayden (August 24, 2020) ''The Southern Poverty Law Center''.</ref> In 2019, Trump Jr. supported a [[birther]] conspiracy on then 2020 Democratic Presidential candidate [[Kamala Harris]].<ref>[https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/06/30/kamala-harris-trump-don-jr-biden-birtherism-race-april-ryan-ndwknd-vpx.cnn Trump Jr. sparks 'birther conspiracy' of Kamala Harris] (June 30, 2019) ''CNN''.</ref>

==Russiagate==
He was investigated by [[Robert Mueller]] for his role in getting his father elected in a highly contentious and controversial [[2016 U.S. presidential election]].<ref>[https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/09/11/donald-trump-jr-not-afraid-going-jail-russia-investigation/1270437002/ Donald Trump Jr. says he's not afraid of going to jail in Russia investigation] by Erin Kelly (Published 4:41 p.m. ET Sept. 11, 2018; Updated 2:28 a.m. ET Sept. 12, 2018) ''USA Today''.</ref> On November 6, 2019, Trump Jr. tweeted the name on his official Twitter account of the alleged [[Trump-Ukraine scandal|Trump-Ukraine]] [[Whistleblower|whistleblower]] and publicized the name of a [[CIA]] agent, thus putting the lives of them and their family at risk.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/11/07/trumps-allies-turned-online-campaign-quest-unmask-ukraine-whistleblower/ Trump’s allies turned to online campaign in quest to unmask Ukraine whistleblower] by Isaac Stanley-Becker & Craig Timberg (November 7, 2019) ''The Washington Post''.</ref>

==Fascism==
[[File:Donald Trump Jr. High School.jpg|thumb|right|165px|Junior in 1998, the master race?]]
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Trump, along with some other MAGA leaders, wrote an endorsement for the book written by noted fascist [[Jack Posobiec]] titled {{wpl|Unhumans|''Unhumans: The Secret History of Communist Revolutions (and How to Crush Them)''}}<ref>''Unhumans: The Secret History of Communist Revolutions (and How to Crush Them)'' by Jack Posobiec & Joshua Lisec (2024) War Room Books.</ref> The title would seem to be an only slightly-veiled reference to [[Nazi Germany]]'s term for people deemed as undesirable by the regime, ''Untermensch'' (or "subhuman").<ref>[https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/these-people-are-nazis These People are Nazis] by John Ganz (Aug 06, 2024) ''Unpopular Front''</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/05/opinion/jd-vance-fascism-unhumans.html The Weird Authoritarian Book Blurbed by JD Vance] by Michelle Goldberg (Aug. 5, 2024, 7:00 p.m. ET) ''The New York Times''.</ref> Trump's book endorsement states:<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20240709200625/https://www.amazon.com/Unhumans-Secret-History-Communist-Revolutions/dp/1648210856/ Unhumans: The Secret History of Communist Revolutions (and How to Crush Them)] by Jack Posobiec & Joshua Lisec (2024) ''Amazon'' (archived from July 9, 2024).</ref>
{{cquote|The far Left murdered 100 million people in the twentieth century{{efn|[[Communism#Crimes against humanity|"100 million" is an inflated number that includes deaths from preventable famines, such as due to the "Great Leap Forward"]].}} and have repeatedly shown that they will stop at nothing to achieve their [[totalitarian]] goals. They have torn down countless societies using a sophisticated playbook of [[propaganda]]. The only way to stop them in the future is to use their own subversive playbook against them. ''Unhumans'' reveals that playbook and teaches us how to deploy it immediately to save the West.}}

==More miscellaneous awfulness==
{{cquote|But I was like, ‘Well, why aren’t they talking about deaths?’ Oh, oh, because the number is almost nothing. Because we’ve gotten control of this, and we understand how it works.|||Around a thousand Americans a day were dying when he said this.<ref>[https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/30/trump-jr-coronavirus-deaths-nothing-433665 Don Jr. dismisses coronavirus deaths: ‘The number is almost nothing’: Roughly 1,000 Americans died from Covid-19 on the day the president’s son appeared on Fox News to downplay the U.S. death toll.] by Quint Forgey (10/30/2020) ''Politico''.</ref>}}
Another conspiracy theory that he spread was engaging in [[holocaust denial]] by falsely smearing [[George Soros]] as a [[Nazi]] collaborator.<ref>[The Trump repeats a George Soros conspiracy theory right before Kavanaugh vote] by Jane Coaston (Oct 5, 2018, 10:20am EDT) ''Vox''.</ref> In February 2018, after the [[Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting]], he pushed a conspiracy theory about a survivor's father, who served in the [[FBI]].<ref>[https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-jr-likes-conspiracy-theory-about-florida-shooting-survivors-ex-fbi-dad Donald Trump Jr. ‘Likes’ Conspiracy Theory About Florida Shooting Survivor’s Ex-FBI Dad] by Andrew Kirell (Feb. 20, 2018) ''Daily Beast''.</ref> He also called for "total [[war]]" after it started to look like his father lost the 2020 election,<ref>[https://www.dallasnews.com/news/elections/2020/11/05/with-biden-one-state-from-presidency-trump-demands-stop-the-count/ Trump, on cusp of defeat to Biden, says ‘they’re trying to steal an election’ after son calls for ‘total war’] by Todd J. Gillman (6:27 PM on Nov 5, 2020 CST — Updated at 2:59 PM on Nov 6, 2020 CST) ''The Dallas Morning News''.</ref> and threatened some of the more reluctant Republicans in [[Congress]].<ref>[https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/06/trump-threat-primaries-gop-lawmakers-455366 'I’m going to be in your backyard': Trump sons threaten primaries for GOP lawmakers] by Quint Forgey (01/06/2021 11:48 AM EST) ''Politico''.</ref> As you might expect from those comments, he is a person of interest in the [[2021 U.S. Capitol riot|capitol riot]] investigation,<ref>[https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/11/capitol-riot-donald-trump-jr-rudy-giuliani-could-face-charges-in-dc.html DC attorney general considers riot incitement charges against Donald Trump Jr., Giuliani, GOP Rep. Brooks] by Dan Mangan (Jan 11 2021) ''CNBC''.</ref> to the point of texting ideas for overturning the results of the [[2020 US presidential election]] to then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.<ref>[https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/04/08/politics/donald-trump-jr-meadows-text/index.html CNN Exclusive: 'We control them all': Donald Trump Jr. texted Meadows ideas for overturning 2020 election before it was called] by Ryan Nobles, Zachary Cohen and Annie Grayer (9 April 2022) ''CNN''.</ref>

==See also==
*[[Hillary Clinton]] — He actually donated to her [[2008 U.S. presidential election|2008 presidential run]].<ref>[https://edition.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/04/16/celebrity.contributions/index.html Celebrities ante up for Democratic campaigns] by Robert Yoon (April 23, 2007) ''CNN''.</ref> '''''[[RINO]] SCUM!!'''''
*[[George W. Bush]] — Controversial son of a GOP president who lost re-election… let's hope history ''doesn't'' repeat itself in this case.
*[[Robert Hunter Biden]] — Controversial son of [[Joe Biden|Trump's successor and predecessor]].

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