Democracy Dies in Darkness

Opinion Leaked document makes Trump campaign’s use of Nazi-era symbol look worse

Columnist
June 19, 2020 at 11:10 a.m. EDT
President Trump attends a roundtable at the White House on Thursday on reopening U.S. small businesses. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

President Trump’s campaign is under fire for employing a symbol once used by Nazis in a new batch of Facebook ads — a red inverted triangle that appeared alongside a warning about the dire threat posed by “antifa,” a loose motley group allied against neo-fascist activity.

An internal Department of Homeland Security document — which I obtained from a congressional source — makes the Trump campaign’s use of this symbol, and its justification for it, look a whole lot worse, by undercutting the claim that antifa represents any kind of threat in the first place.