Firebrand US lawmaker accepted donation from Nazi supporter

Hard-right Republican lawmaker Judge Roy Moore reportedly accepted a donation from a white supremacist, Nazi supporter and notorious Holocaust denier.

According to a Wednesday report in the Huffington Post, Moore in 2005 received a $1,000 donation from the Foundation to Defend the First Amendment, a nonprofit founded by Willis Carto, a man described by the anti-Defamation League as “one of the most influential American anti-Semitic propagandists.”

Todd Blodgett, who spied on Carto for the FBI from 2000 to 2002, told the website the ideology dominating the Foundation was “total Nazi; and notice I didn’t say neo-Nazi.”

The report said the contribution to Moore was discovered through publicly available tax records, and did not appear to have been returned.

Carto, who died at age 89 in 2015, founded the Liberty Lobby, a white supremacist group, and the Institute for Historical Review, a group that promotes Holocaust denial.