http://checkyourfact.com/2018/11/08/fact-check-white-supremacist-invited-white-house-midterms/
People on Twitter said Wednesday that Patrick Casey, executive director of the white nationalist group Identity Evropa, was invited to the White House after he tweeted photos of himself in front of the building's south front the day after the midterm elections.
Verdict: False
Casey visited the White House in October during the fall garden tour, which is open to the public.
Fact Check:
Casey's tweet gained traction after PBS News Hour White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor cited it to defend a question she asked President Donald Trump earlier that day.
"On the campaign trail, you called yourself a nationalist. Some people saw that as emboldening white nationalists," she said at a press conference Wednesday. "There are some people that say that now the Republican Party is seen as supporting white nationalists because of your rhetoric. What do you make of that?"
"That's such a racist question," Trump responded.
"My Q was fair & timely," Alcindor tweeted later in the day. "Patrick Casey, executive director of Identity Evropa, which Southern Poverty Law Center says is part of the 'alt-right's' effort to recruit white, college-aged men and make them the 'new face of white nationalism,' tweeted that he was at the WH today."
Of course, it doesn't matter to you, Yamiche, that the SPLC is a racist, anti-Semitic organization that is an integral part of the American Left's efforts to recruit young people to be anarchist thugs in Antifa and the BLM movement, eh?
Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, also publicized Casey's tweet. "We demand the White House answer why he was there," he tweeted.
You demand to know, eh? Okay ... here ya go, schmuck.
A story in The Daily Beast said that Casey would not have been able to reach the White House south front on a normal tour, and that he "likely would have had to be escorted by a Trump administration staffer wearing an official badge to get that kind of access."
The White House press office later clarified that Casey "was one of more than twenty-five thousand people who came to the White House Fall Garden Tour, which is open to the public. Free tickets are made available to anyone who wants to attend."
The White House Garden Tour allows visitors to "stroll around the White House grounds" twice a year on weekends in the spring and fall. The 2018 Fall Garden Tour took place on the weekend of Oct. 20, more than two weeks before Casey tweeted the photos. Garden tour visitors may snap photos in front of the south front, as Casey did.
Casey confirmed to The Daily Caller News Foundation that he obtained tickets to the garden tour himself. He expressed amusement that so many people believed that he was invited to the White House. ...
You know what? If you libtards were not so consumed with irrational hatred and took a more objective, rational approach towards separating fact from fiction, you wouldn't end up with so much egg on your faces. But, you're ridiculous, hateful buffoons who only believe your own concocted fantasies, so ... you want 'em poached, sunny side up, or scrambled?
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
| 
