Lawyer Says His Nazi Sympathizer Client Was Radicalized By Fox News, Ben Shapiro

OXON HILL, MD, UNITED STATES - 2018/02/22: Ben Shapiro, host of his online political podcast The Ben Shapiro Show, at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) sponsored by the American Conservative Union held at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in Oxon Hill. (Photo by Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
OXON HILL, MD, UNITED STATES - 2018/02/22: Ben Shapiro, host of his online political podcast The Ben Shapiro Show, at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) sponsored by the American Conservative Union h... OXON HILL, MD, UNITED STATES - 2018/02/22: Ben Shapiro, host of his online political podcast The Ben Shapiro Show, at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) sponsored by the American Conservative Union held at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in Oxon Hill. (Photo by Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Nolan Brewer, a Nazi sympathizer who pleaded guilty to spray painting swastikas on an Indiana synagogue and setting its lawn on fire, blames his radicalization on his wife who he says was indoctrinated by Fox News and Ben Shapiro, eventually leading her the Nazi website Stormfront, per his lawyer.

Brewer was sentenced to three years in prison for defacing the synagogue, the Washington Post reported.

Shapiro bristled at the accusation from Brewer’s lawyer.

“Yes, if there’s one thing I’m known for — as one of the most prominent Orthodox Jews, targets of the alt-right, and critics of the alt-right in America — it’s directing Nazis to attack synagogues,” Shapiro tweeted Sunday. “What garbage.”

Per the Post, this is not the first time a terrorist has been connected to Shapiro as the birth of his radicalization.

Alexandre Bissonnette, who attacked a Quebec City mosque in 2017, reportedly visited Shapiro’s Twitter feed 93 times before carrying out the slaughter of six people.

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  1. Avatar for theod theod says:

    Sorry Ben. One of the consequences of being a fire-breathing a$$hole on reality-tv/radio is that some nutcases are listening and will claim to act on your inspirational hate.

  2. This is completely believable - in fact, it’s hard to see how else these people get to these places. It’s not like they’re taught in school that Nazis are fun.

  3. Guess you missed that one class photo from somewhere in the mid-west where most of the kids were doing the nazi salute…

  4. Being a Jew is no exemption from accusations of promoting Nazi ideas. When can deplorables stop playing their imaginary “identity politics”?

  5. Yup, Shapiro is ‘orthodox’ alright, but not in the way he describes.

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