Between five and seven people were stabbed during a white supremacy protest and counter protest near the steps of the California state capitol in Sacramento today.
The hate group “Traditional Worker’s Party,” founded by Matthew Heimbach, says the group aims to “create a European-style nationalist movement.”
Heimbach, a 25 year old white supremacist, was recorded at a Trump rally earlier this year yelling at a young black woman. Wearing a red Trump “Make America Great Again” hat, and a black German Labor Front (the only legal union during the Nazi regime) t-shirt, he shoved Shiya Nwanguma and screamed at her to leave.
“Our movement is on the rise,” said Heimbach. “And Donald Trump is just the first glimmer of the dawn that is about to rise. What he has shown us is that our people will not go quietly into the night. They want to fight.”
Heimbach says he supports Trump’s promise to ban Muslims from entering the country, and to build a wall to keep Mexicans out.
“Hopefully this election will really damage the Republican Party as a whole and awaken white working-class and middle-class people that the Republicans don’t represent them,” said Heimbach. “So I really like Trump for that.”
Heimbach has had his picture taken at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington holding a sign that said: “6 million? More like 271,301.” In another photo, in front of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s grave site in Atlanta, he unfurled the first flag of the Confederacy.
Heimbach says he was fired from his Indiana state government job last year for promoting “nationalist politics.”
Ryan Lenz, editor of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch blog, told the Washington Post that Heimbach is the millennials David Duke who has forged relationships with Stormfront, the League of the South, the Aryan Terror Brigade, the National Socialist Movement and other white-supremacist organizations.
“He’s the affable, youthful face of hate in America,” said Lenz, “and in many ways, he’s the grand connector between all of these groups.”
In Sacramento, marchers from the Traditionalist Worker Party were met by counter-protesters calling them “Nazis” and “fascists,” and the confrontation quickly escalated. Police say in addition to the people who were stabbed, many others suffered minor injuries such as scrapes and bruises.
What does this have to do with Trump?
A man who has been in the news for pushing and shouting obscenities at an African American woman at a Trump rally is also the founder of a neo-Nazi group where a stabbing happened in Sacramento. Considering Matthew Heimbach’s strong support of Trump, calling him the “rise of a new movement” it is newsworthy to report.