Downplaying their presence, Mark Levin acknowledges white nationalists attended CPAC: “One of them confronted me”

Also, Levin comments on infamous white nationalist Jared Taylor: “I don't know this guy, Taylor. I don't know a thing about him. Nobody does.”

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NBC News reported that “racist conspiracy theorists didn't meet any perceptible resistance” at CPAC this year. 

Downplaying their presence, Mark Levin acknowledges white nationalists attended CPAC: "One of them confronted me"

Downplaying their presence, Mark Levin acknowledges white nationalists attended CPAC: "One of them confronted me"

From the February 26, 2024 edition of Westwood One's The Mark Levin Show

MARK LEVIN (HOST): There are people who got into the hotel. It's a massive hotel. One was wearing a Klan shirt or uniform and was arrested, was handcuffed and removed. There were Nick Fuentes people. They look like little teenagers. They come in and it's hard to catch them. One of them confronted me. Again, I'll tell you about that later if I get around to it. But there was no formalized effort, systemic effort of any kind. Quite the opposite.

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At the Young Republican mixer Friday evening, a group of Nazis who openly identified as national socialist mingled with mainstream conservative personalities, including some from Turning Point USA and discussed race science and anti-semitic conspiracy theories. I have no idea who he's talking about or what he's talking about. Is it possible that one or two of these sickos got in? You better believe it is. You better believe it is.

You can stop them from coming into official events to some extent, but you can't stop them from mingling, going into parties, social events, and so forth, where they're not requiring badges. One member of the group, Greg Conte, who attended the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, said that his group showed up to talk to the media. He said that the group was prepared to be ejected if CPAC organizers were tipped off, but that never happened. What never happened? They weren't tipped off. That's what never happened. Another, Ryan Sanchez, was previously part of the Nazi Rise Above Movement, took photos and videos of himself at the conference with an official badge and touted his associations with Fuentes, and it goes on.

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And NBC News dares to write this, Ben Goggin, you disgusting propagandists. That's what you are. You're disgusting. Jared Taylor he said, was there. He founded American Renaissance, an organization that has published racist pro-eugenics writings.

The Southern Poverty Law Center describes Taylor as crudely white supremacist. You know what? It's very interesting. I have a whole chapter on the Democrat Party and eugenics. Woodrow Wilson, the founder of Planned Parenthood - the Democrat Party was the party of eugenics. I don't know this guy, Taylor. I don't know a thing about him. Nobody does.

For more on Jared Taylor:

American Renaissance is a white nationalist online magazine, published by Jared Taylor. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that Taylor “believes black people are genetically predisposed to lower IQs” than white peoples and that black peoples “are sexually promiscuous because of hyperactive sex drives.” Taylor has appeared on talk shows to attack the legacy of civil rights pioneer Martin Luther King Jr.

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Taylor described himself as a Trump supporter and told ABC News, “Sending home all illegals -- the huge majority of whom are nonwhites -- and putting even a temporary halt on Muslim immigration are in the interests of whites, whether Trump thinks in those terms or not.” Taylor also recorded a pro-Trump robocall for a white nationalist super PAC.