Trump field director 'vetted' — but fired after report revealed his 'white nationalist views'

Luke Meyer, a a 24-year-old regional field director in the swing state of Pennsylvania, was fired last week over his "white nationalist views," according to exclusive reporting by far-right extremism researcher and writer Amanda Moore for Politico.

Moore reported Monday that Donald Trump's campaign let go of Meyer after reading her reporting.

Meyer, Moore notes, under the "online name Alberto Barbarossa," leads "the Alexandria podcast with Richard Spencer, organizer of the 2017 white nationalist Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia."

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Moore reports:

After I presented Meyer with evidence that he was Barbarossa, he admitted the connection and said he has been hiding his online identity from his colleagues on Trump Force 47, the arm of the Trump campaign that runs volunteer organizers. 'I am glad you pieced these little clues together like an antifa Nancy Drew,' he wrote in an email. 'It made me realize how draining it has been having to conceal my true thoughts for as long as I have.'

Furthermore, the far-right extremism expert notes, "When I wrote Pennsylvania’s Trump Force 47 team that Meyer was Barbarossa, my email tracker showed the message being opened all across Pennsylvania and New York."

Pennsylvania's Republican Party told Moore in a statement, "The employee in question was background-checked and vetted, but unbeknownst to us was operating separately under a pseudonym. If we’d had any inkling about his hidden and despicable activity he would never have been hired, and the instant we learned of it he was fired. We have no place in our Party or nation for people with such shameful, hateful views."

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Moore's full report is available here.