- A post
in The Medium that appeared on Monday about the Republican presidential
candidate Ron Paul and his purported adoption by white supremacist and
neo-Nazi groups contained several errors. Stormfront, which describes itself
as a "white nationalist" Internet community, did not give money
to Ron Paul's presidential campaign; according to Jesse Benton, a spokesman
for Paul's campaign, it was Don Black, the founder of Stormfront, who donated
$500 to Paul. The original post also repeated a string of assertions by
Bill White, the commander of the American National Socialist Workers Party,
including the allegation that Paul meets regularly "with members of
the Stormfront set, American Renaissance, the Institute for Historic Review
and others" at a restaurant in Arlington, Va. Paul never attended
these dinners, according to Benton, who also says that Paul has never knowingly
met Bill White. Norman Singleton, a congressional aide in Paul's office,
says that he met Bill White at a dinner gathering of conservatives several
years ago, after which Singleton expressed his indignation at the views
espoused by White to the organizer of the dinner. The original post should
not have been published with these unverified assertions and without any
response from Paul
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