'One of the United States’ foremost white supremacists is urging his
followers to support Vice President Harris in the presidential election
next week.

Richard Spencer, an avowed racist, antisemite and admirer of Nazism who
coined the term “alt-right” and was a featured speaker when he took
part
in the deadly 2017 rally in Charlottesville, Va., called Harris the
“best manager of the American empire.”

Spencer — who also gained international recognition after yelling “Hail
Trump! Hail our people!” and being greeted with Nazi salutes during a
white nationalist event in November 2016 — also condemned former
President Trump’s strong support of Israel.

Richard B. Spencer, a man in a suit with a microphone, tweeting about
voting for Kamala Harris
3 White supremacist Richard Spencer says he’s backing Kamala Harris for
president.
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Harris wanted to “be all things to all people” on the issue of Israel,
but ultimately he preferred where she landed, Spencer said in a nearly
12 minute video posted to X.

“At the DNC, she said that she 100% supports Israel. She’ll give Israel
lethal aid. She also said that the suffering is tremendous, and she also
said that Palestinians deserve their own state, their own sovereignty,
that they need to have a government, a legitimate organization through
which they can live in peace, side by side with Israel . . . I have
criticisms of that, but nevertheless, I find that better than Donald
Trump.”

He also liked Harris because “for better or for worse, [she] goes with
the flow.”

“And in my mind, that flow is going towards centrism, towards rational
government, towards a sort of democratic hegemony . . . This is
“something that I can responsibly support. So, I’m happily voting for
Kamala Harris.”

US Vice President Kamala Harris speaking at a campaign rally at Shell
Energy Stadium in Houston, Texas, on October 25, 2024.
3 Spencer said he preferred Harris’ positions on Israel to Donald Trump.
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Spencer thinks Harris would be more supportive of Ukraine.

Spencer said he planned to vote straight down the Democratic ticket in
his home state of Montana, name dropping Democratic Sen. John Tester and
Democratic House candidate Monica Tranel as other candidates he would
back.

Spencer is far from the first white supremacist giving anti-Israel
Democrats a second look. Former Ku Klux Klan boss David Duke publicly
lauded squad Rep. Ilhan Omar as “the most important member of the US
Congress!”

Former President Donald Trump speaking at a Republican campaign rally in
Gastonia, N.C. in 2024
3 Spencer condemned former President Donald Trump’s support of Israel.
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Spencer, who famously backed Trump in 2016, said the former president
disappointed him.

“Trump has closed off discussion of important ideas,” Spencer said. �
��And
he has amplified idiocy.”

The Harris campaign did not respond to request for comment from The
Post'

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A suspect has been arrested in connection with the rape of a 13-year-old girl in a Queens park last week, according to police.

Christian Geovanny Inga-Landi, a 25-year-old Ecuadorian migrant who entered the U.S. illegally in June 2021, was picked up overnight after community members recognized him from a photo and video released by police, according to the New York Police Department.

Police said they restrained him, possibly with a belt, and roughed him up after he fought with his captors. He was taken to the hospital for evaluation.

Inga-Landi waived his Miranda rights and told police he had a drug problem and had never done anything like this before, according to NYPD Chief of Detectives Joe Kenny.

He was previously arrested in Eagle Pass, Texas, for entering the country illegally. He also had three summonses in New York City and a domestic violence encounter with police that did not result in arrest.

Inga-Lani has been charged with first-degree rape, first-degree sex abuse, first-degree robbery, first-degree menacing, second-degree kidnapping, first-degree unlawful imprisonment and other crimes.

NYPD Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry praised the community efforts that led to the suspect being taken into custody in an interview with New York ABC station WABC.

"The kids, children, principals and teachers can now go to school with a little more ease, and the family can have a sense of relief today," he said.

Reflecting on the investigation, Daughtry commended the bravery of the young victims and the community's support.

"The sketches from those brave kids were invaluable," he said. "Old-fashioned police work, combined with modern technology, helped us bring this case closer to resolution. The city's response was a resounding 'no' to this heinous crime."

The sexual assault took place at about 3:30 p.m. Thursday when two schoolmates, a 13-year-old male and a 13-year-old female, were approached by a man in Kissena Park. The man flashed what police described as a "large machete-style knife" and forced the 13-year-old victims to walk for several minutes into a wooded area.

The individual then forcibly removed the cellphones of both victims, tied the boy and girl's wrists together with a shoelace and sexually assaulted the female victim before fleeing the location on foot in an unknown direction.

The two 13-year-olds were taken to the hospital in stable condition after they returned to school to explain what happened.

Investigators recovered the shoelace used to tie the children's hands together, along with a water bottle the suspect left behind.

The individual being sought was described as a Hispanic male, approximately 5-foot-5, in his 20s, with curly hair and last seen wearing red sneakers and carrying a green backpack. He appeared to have dental braces and had a tattoo of a boar or a bull with red eyes on his chest.

"The entire police department is focused on getting justice for this young survivor," NYPD Chief of Detectives Joe Kenny said last week during a press conference.

The NYPD released photos of a person of interest late Monday and were offering a $10,000 reward for information in the case.

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