Insufferably pro-Israel Hedge fund douchebag Bill Ackman apparently donated $10,000 to a GoFundMe campaign for ICE agent Jonathan Ross’s legal defense – a campaign launched and managed by a Michigan man named Clyde Emmons, whose Facebook profile pic was of a Hitler salute – or was until the Intercept’s Jacqueline Sweet asked him about it and changed it afterward.
The GoFundMe has raised nearly $500,000 “for” Ross as of this writing. Who the hell knows how much some random racist MAGA asshole in Michigan is going to take for his cut. Now petty and silly as it seems to be ragging on Mediaite for a simple mistake in their coverage, especially when they picked up the Ackman and antisemitism angle earlier on Monday, there’s actually something revealingly on-brand of white nationalist Trump fanboys in the mess. In the latter article Mediaite identified Ackman as a donor to a campaign that, before its creator made some edits, said:
“But this didn’t happen in a vacuum – it’s the direct result of anti-American traitors like Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (who is Jewish) fanning the flames of resistance. Frey blasted ICE after the incident, telling them to ‘get the f- out’ of his city, signing executive orders banning federal agents from using city property for deportations and even warning that ICE agents could get ‘killed’ if they keep removing invaders from his sanctuary cesspool,” wrote Tom Hennessey, emphasis added on the part that was later edited out of the crowdfund campaign’s description on GiveSendGo.
But Ackman donated via GoFundMe, meaning that Mediaite misidentified which fanboy had organized the campaign had donated to and which site it’s hosted on. They did not however misidentify which one was launched by a far right antisemite, because both evidently hate Jews.