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Pentagon official posted neo-Nazi talking point about Jewish lynching victim Leo Frank last year

JL;DR SUMMARY Kingsley Wilson, the Pentagon's deputy press secretary, provoked controversy by sharing a neo-Nazi conspiracy theory about Leo Frank, a Jewish lynching victim whose death spurred the founding of the Anti-Defamation League. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Anti Defamation LeagueAdlNeo NaziGreat Replacement TheoryPentagonLeo FrankFar Right PoliticsProject 2025German Afd Party

Places mentioned

Georgia, United States
"Frank was a factory manager in Georgia who was convicted on thin evidence of killing a 13-year-old girl, Mary Phagan, and was sentenced to death."
Germany
"Also last year, she tweeted in support of the far-right Alternative for Germany party, known as AfD, whose leaders have a history of downplaying the Holocaust and have unsettled many of the countrys Jews."
Serbia
"Last week, he took issue with a tweet of hers reading Make Kosovo Serbia Again."

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