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The State Department has placed one of its employees on leave following a Wednesday expose from the Southern Poverty Law Center linking the man with white nationalist beliefs, according to reports from Politico and NBC News.
The employee, Matthew Q. Gebert, worked as a foreign affairs officer for the department’s Bureau of Energy Resources.
A State Department spokesperson did not immediately return a request for comment, and HuffPost was unable to reach Gebert.
The SPLC, which runs a blog monitoring extremism, outlined copious evidence tying Gebert to the white nationalist movement. He reportedly espoused alarming beliefs about his desire to see a white ethnostate in a May 2018 episode of “The Fatherland,” a white nationalist podcast.
“[Whites] need a country of our own with nukes, and we will retake this thing lickety split,” Gebert said under a pseudonym, Coach Finstock, the SPLC blog Hatewatch reported. “That’s all that we need. We need a country founded for white people with a nuclear deterrent. And you watch how the world trembles.”
Gebert, as Coach Finstock, also said he was prepared to lose his job over his beliefs because “this is the most important thing to me in my life” next to his family.
On another podcast in early 2018, Hatewatch reported, Gebert explicitly says that he considers himself a white nationalist, speaking under his alleged pseudonym.
Matthew Gebert would have been fired under any other administration ― but not under U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo or Trump.
Gebert is not just a White Supremacist ― he’s full on Nazi. He’s the #EnemyWithin ― #EnemyOfTheState
Read all of his racist hate speech the SPLC uncovered in their extensive investigation.
Trump mentioned Gebert’s Twitter handle
Another Twitter user flagged on Wednesday that Trump, while a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, referred to the account @Q1776, which was manned by Gebert.
“@Q1776: Love fest for DonaldTrump on @marklevinshow just now. Top 5 talk radio audience in country. Great being on the show with Mark!” Trump posted to Twitter on October 5, 2015, referring to a conservative talk show.
After Hatewatch published its investigation, people sent photos and information to Hatewatch about Gebert and his wife, Anna Vuckovic. Vuckovic also is involved in the white nationalist movement and used the pseudonym “Wolfie James” to post racist and antisemitic blog posts, Hatewatch reported.
Gebert at a white nationalist event in Charlottesville, Virginia, in May 2017,
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