Trump's Strange Bedfellows

A White House official obsessed over nuclear apocalypse, men's style, and fine wines on an obscure fashion site. View this email in your browser February 12-18, 2017 Share Tweet Forward Editor's Picks Trump's Strange Bedfellows The tip came from a reader who emailed me after I wrote a story about Michael Anton, a new Trump appointee on the National Security Council. Did I know that Anton had posted a large number of comments on an obscure men's fashion site, Styleforum.net? I did not, so I looked and found, amid his 40,000-plus comments, ones in which he darkly predicted an "inevitable" nuclear attack by Muslim terrorists.  Anton was not the only unconventional Trump supporter whom The Intercept chronicled this week. Reporter Jon Schwarz reached out to Carter Page, a onetime foreign policy adviser to Trump who is reported to be under investigation for unsavory ties to Russia, and received a rambling letter that Page had written to the Department of Justice to accuse the Hillary Clinton campaign of "hate crimes and other extensive abuses." Peter Maass Senior Editor Trump Official Obsessed Over Nuclear Apocalypse, Men's Style, Fine Wines in 40,000 Posts on Fashion Site Peter Maass Michael Anton, the director of strategic communications at the National Security Council, wrote more than 40,000 posts on Styleforum.net, some of them controversial.   Carter Page, at Center of Trump Russian Investigation, Writes Bizarre Letter to DOJ Blaming Hillary Clinton Jon Schwarz Page wrote that the Clinton campaign engaged in "the most extreme examples of human rights violations observed during any election in U.S. history since Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."   Top Stories   The Leakers Who Exposed Gen. Flynn's Lie Committed Serious — and Wholly Justified — Felonies Glenn Greenwald That a leak is illegal does not mean it deserves punishment. Oftentimes, the most just acts are precisely the ones that the law prohibits.   Oklahoma Lawmakers Want Men to Approve All Abortions Jordan Smith Oklahoma ranks second behind Louisiana for the sheer number of abortion restrictions passed since 1973.   48 Questions the FBI Uses to Determine if Someone Is a Likely Terrorist Cora Currier, Murtaza Hussain The FBI is using a score based on "Indicators of Mobilization to Violence," despite evidence that radicalization is a highly individual process.   Civil Rights Groups, Funded by Telecoms, Back Donald Trump's Plan to Kill Net Neutrality Lee Fang The groups are running interference for their funders, saying the Republican-led Congress should take control of the process — the precise approach that is favored by industry.   "Donald Trump Rants and Raves at the Press," Donald Trump Says, Accurately Robert Mackey Trump's bizarre attempt to roast the press shows that he intends to follow Steve Bannon's advice and treat the media as "the opposition party."   Follow The Intercept

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