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| Rich landowner Spencer needs your financial assistance. |
Richard Spencer, the founder of the Alt-Right, who became notorious by associating the movement with race-baiting hate sites like TRS and the Daily Stormer, has appealed to the movement's army of generous donors to cough up more money for a legal defence fund, which he promises won't be spent on expensive skiing holidays or attempts to get banned from yet more European countries.
The appeal is a response to a civil action brought against Spencer and other participants in the Charlottesville "Unite the Right" rally that resulted in attacks on nationalists by antifa and an incident where an Alt-Right sympathiser drove a car into a crowd of people after his car was attacked by Leftist demonstrators.
Because of the evident bias in the media and the legal system, Spencer is worried that he might be fined a substantial amount and could be forced to break into his own immense fortune.
Spencer's known assets include a third share in a 5,200-acre agricultural estate in Louisiana, worth an estimated $28 million dollars. This estimate is based on the value of the Hollybrook Plantation, a 10,464 acre farm in northeast Louisiana that was recently put on the market for $55 million.
With other assumed assets, such as his collection of suits, tubs of hair wax, Bond movie box sets, and rare Depeche Mode memorabilia, Spencer's net worth can be conservatively estimated at around $10 million and possibly much more.
The money that he hopes to raise from the appeal will be used to pay for a very expensive -- and therefore good -- lawyer to nip this civil suit in the bud.
To switch from purely factual reporting to editorialising just a little, we at Trad News believe that all believers in free speech should support this campaign generously, including Spencer himself.
