


#ROCHARD SPENCER TRIAL#
Meanwhile, his wife has divorced him, and he is facing trial next month in Charlottesville, Va., over his role in the deadly 2017 neo-Nazi march there, but says he cannot afford a lawyer." Spencer, who once ran his National Policy Institute from his mother's $3 million summer house here, is now an outcast in this resort town in the Rocky Mountains, unable to get a table at many of its restaurants. That's actually a really good feeling."Īccording to Williamson's report, "Leaders in Whitefish say Mr. Things she writes are much different for him now as after he attempted to run his organization in his mother's $3 million Whitefish home, while watching his life fall apart.Īccording to Tanya Gersh, a local real estate agent targeted by white nationalists, "I have bumped into him, and he runs. 6 Capitol riot."Ĭase in point, she notes, is Spencer who once received a glossy write-up in the LA Times. Residents who joined with state officials, human rights groups and synagogues say their bipartisan counteroffensive could hold lessons for others in an era of disinformation and intimidation, and in the wake of the Jan. The Times' Elizabeth Williamson writes, "Whitefish, a mostly liberal, affluent community nestled in a county that voted for Mr. With Rabbi Francine Green Roston of the Glacier Jewish Community/B'nai Shalom, explaining, "The best way to respond to hate and cyberterrorism in your community is through solidarity. In a deep dive into how that city of Whitefish, Montana became a hot-bed of extremism that led to locals pushing back, Spencer is Exhibit A demonstrating how white nationalists are being shunned and driven from town by locals. According to a report in the New York Times, neo-Nazi Richard Spencer - once riding high as the face of white extremists who previously supported Donald Trump - has seen his life collapse in the years since the Charlottesville protests that led to one woman losing her life.
