Who is Luke Meyer? Trump Field director fired for white nationalist views

Luke Meyer, a 24-year-old regional field director for Donald Trump campaign in western Pennsylvania, was fired after Politico revealed he was a prominent white nationalist writing and podcasting under a pseudonym.

Meyer admitted to Politico that he was the “Alberto Barbarossa” who was co-hosted by the paywall ALEXANDRE podcast with Richard Spencer.

Spencer is known for neo-Nazi rhetoriccoining the term “alt-right” and organizing the Unite the Right 2017 rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Meyer used the online identity of “Barbarossa” to promote white nationalist views.

Newsweek reached out to the Trump campaign via email for comment but was unable to reach Meyer, who has deleted all of his social media accounts.

In an episode of ALEXANDREMeyer suggested that the US could implement a racial regime similar to South Africa’s apartheid in the 20th century.

Spencer said, “The country will not return to Ben Franklin’s heady, glorious ideals of a pure, Hyperborean ethnostate.” Barbarossa replied: “But what you can keep is something where we have complete and total control, something like Rhodesia or South Africa.”

In an appearance on a separate white nationalist podcast, Meyer advocated for racially homogeneous American cities. “Why can’t we make New York, for example, white again?” he asked, adding that “a return to 80 percent, 90 percent white would probably be the best we could hope for.”

His persona “Barbarossa” often appeared online in images depicting a hand wearing a ring bearing the sonnenrad, or Black Sun, a symbol appropriated by neo-Nazi groups.

According to the Politico investigation published Tuesday, Meyer responded to being presented with evidence that he was Barbarossa by expressing relief that I no longer had to “hide my true thoughts” and saying that white nationalism was already part of the Trump campaign.

“Like the hydra, you can cut off my head and hold it up for the world to see, but two more will quietly emerge and work in the shadows,” Meyer wrote in an email to a Politico reporter . “Slating Trump to speak at (Madison Square Garden), putting”blood poisoningin his speeches, setting up Odal runes at CPACAnd so on In a few years, one of those groypers (white supremacists) might even quietly bring me back with a stern warning to “be more careful next time.”

“Every second man under thirty in the GOP believes 90% of the same things I believe,” he wrote. “They just don’t have the platform that I have and can go undetected like I did.”

After learning of Meyer’s secret identity, the Pennsylvania GOP immediately terminated his employment.

“The employee in question was vetted and vetted but, unbeknownst to us, was operating separately under an alias,” the Pennsylvania GOP said in a statement. “Had we had any inkling of his hidden and despicable activity, he would never have been hired, and the moment we found out about it, he was fired. We have no place in our party or nation for people with such shameful and hateful views. “

Meyer served as regional field director for five months working on Trump Force 47, a Trump campaign initiative focused on volunteer mobilization and door-to-door efforts. The program is jointly funded by each state’s GOP and the Trump campaign.

The Pennsylvania GOP made eight payments to Meyer totaling $9,936 between June 17 and Aug. 30, according to Federal Election Commission data.

As of Friday, Meyer deleted his LinkedIn and X accounts, as well as the Barbarossa X account. His Alberto Barbarossa Substack profile remained live at the time of writing.

According to information taken from his LinkedIn account, now deleted from the website datanyze.com, Meyer used to work for the libertarian think tank Americans for Prosperity, the tax preparation firm H&R Block and the Republican National Committee as Field Officer.