Goggin also reported on other easily identifiable figures with ties to neo-Nazis he saw at CPAC, including one “with an official badge” from the event.

Benjamin Goggin, NBC News’s deputy tech editor, defended his report on Nazis receiving a “friendly reception” at the recent Conservative Political Action Conference after CPAC publicly called it “false, misleading, and grossly manipulative.”

Goggin noted in his report that CPAC has long had to deal with far-right extremists trying to infiltrate the conference, but in past years would quickly eject those with explicit ties to neo-Nazis, like Nick Fuentes.

“But this year, racist conspiracy theorists didn’t meet any perceptible resistance at the conference where Donald Trump has been the keynote speaker since 2017,” Goggin wrote…

  • corvaxL@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Feels weird to think that MAGFest takes place at this same hotel a little over a month earlier. I didn’t go this year, but I’ve been a few times. Katsucon was also at the same hotel earlier this month, as it always is.

    Just imagine if they were back to back and Nazis starting walking into a hotel full of cosplayers