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Sen. Hagerty hires adviser known for racist writings at Breitbart and white nationalist connections
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2021/02/23/sen-bill-hagerty-hires-adviser-known-racist-writing"Republican Bill Hagerty, who began representing Tennessee as a senator this year, quietly brought in an adviser named Julia Hahn, a former Trump official known for her racist writings and connections to the white nationalist movement.
Hagerty announced that he hired Hahn on Jan. 28, along with other figures who served under former President Trump. In October, Hatewatch reported on previously private emails Hahn sent to her former Breitbart News colleague Katie McHugh that revealed those connections to white identity extremists. Hahn’s writing at Breitbart News stands out for the degree to which it repeatedly and selectively portrays non-white people, immigrants and Muslims as posing a danger to white Americans.
“How many whites have been killed by blacks since Obama has been in office?” Hahn wrote to McHugh in an apparently unpublished July 2016 Breitbart News story pitch.
Hahn is not from Tennessee, but rather Beverly Hills, California."...(more at link)