Why did right-wing troll Charles C. Johnson want to meet with Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross? by alexnazaryan
The year 2018 was not an especially auspicious one for Charles C. Johnson, a Holocaust denier whom the Boston Globe has deemed “one of the country's most notorious Internet trolls.”
That much is clear from his surprising exchange with Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross on June 25, 2018. The puzzling interaction raises questions about why a high-ranking government official would entertain a figure as divisive as Johnson, especially since by late 2018 Johnson’s affiliation with white supremacists and other fringe figures was well known. Three years before, he had been booted off Twitter for threatening to “take out” Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson. His fundraising sites welcome campaigns by neo-Nazis like Richard Spencer and Andrew Anglin.
As for a face-to-face between Johnson and the former corporate raider, it was not to be. “The requested meeting did not occur,” said Commerce spokesperson Rebecca Glover. She declined to elaborate, or to answer specific questions about the matter.
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