6 insurrection subpoenaed Fuentes and another former close ally, Patrick Casey, for their role in that day’s events. 7, 2021, showing that he attended Trump’s speech prior to the Capitol riot with Fuentes and Vincent James Foxx, a former propagandist for the white nationalist Rise Above Movement.Īs Hatewatch reported in January 2022, the congressional committee investigating the Jan. There, Fuentes gave a speech in which he appeared to encourage insurrectionists, calling on them to “break down the barricades and disregard the police.” McNeil also posted photos to his personal channel on the encrypted messaging app Telegram on Jan. 6, 2021, standing alongside Fuentes, through video footage posted on Bitchute, a video-streaming site popular with the extreme right. Hatewatch identified McNeil on the outskirts of the Capitol grounds on Jan. 21, 2020, “Stop the Steal” event in Atlanta. We are done with them,” McNeil said during a Nov. “The Republican Party has sold us out, and we have had it. But he has also rallied alongside Fuentes at a number of anti-democracy “Stop the Steal” events in late 2020 and early 2021, including the Trump-rally-turned-riot in Washington, D.C., on Jan. McNeil mostly streams video games and commentary on Fuentes’s Cozy.TV platform. Neither responded to these requests for comment. Hatewatch also contacted the SBA over email. Hatewatch reached out to McNeil over email and the messaging app Telegram. taxpayers have to subsidize dangerous white nationalists?” Kotch added. “Speech that incites lawbreaking, including hate crimes, is not protected under the First Amendment, so why should U.S. “Sending forgivable PPP loans to a white nationalist media personality is equally outrageous.” The IRS continues to grant tax-exempt status to hate groups,” Alex Kotch, a senior investigative reporter at the Center for Media and Democracy and the executive director of the OptOut Media Foundation, told Hatewatch in an email. “Time and time again, the federal government props up hate operations. A subsequent NBC News investigation found that 14 SPLC-designated hate groups received $4.3 million, including the white nationalist American Renaissance and the anti-immigrant Center for Immigration Studies. In August 2020, the Center for Media and Democracy found that the SBA distributed between $2.35 and $5.7 million dollars in loans to six groups designated as hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center. McNeil is not the only far-right extremist who has received federal aid intended for struggling small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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He also maintains a video archive on YouTube. Now, he livestreams on Cozy.TV, a video-streaming site that Fuentes constructed following the Jan. During this time, McNeil was one of the highest earners on the platform. However, Hatewatch determined that McNeil earned over $63,000 in donations on the youth-targeted streaming platform DLive between spring 2020 and March 2021. The government made PPP loans available to freelancers to compensate them for lost income as a result of the pandemic. It is unclear if the lending agency behind McNeil’s loan has permitted him to do so. Under certain circumstances, government-approved lenders can forgive these types of loans.
McNeil, who once claimed, “The American regime hates white people,” applied for federal funding in the category of “independent artists, writers, and performers.” These types of loans are capped at $20,833 for sole proprietors – in this case, individual creators who do not retain a staff. The government intended these loans, part of the Payment Protection Program (PPP), to be for small businesses and self-employed workers to support their employees or themselves through the COVID-19 pandemic. Hatewatch determined McNeil received these funds through its review of a public federal loan database from ProPublica. Small Business Association-approved lender delivered $20,832 in funds on May 27, 2021, to Jaden McNeil, a racist livestreamer and close ally of white nationalist Nick Fuentes who stood alongside Fuentes as he appeared to encourage insurrectionists outside the U.S.
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