He became a protege of MAGA figures like Roger Stone and InfoWars chief Alex Jones, and ran with a group of other young MAGA internet provocateurs, including anti-Muslim activist Laura Loomer and blundering smear artist Jacob Wohl.īut in his messages to Duncan, according to the screenshots, there was one name Alexander dangled as a perk for the teenager if he kept up contact with Alexander: Milo Yiannopoulos.
Leveraging his position writing for blogs with names like “Hip Hop Republican,” Alexander received funding from billionaire conservative mega-donor Robert Mercer, organized a national club for bloggers that later faced questions about how Alexander spent the money he raised, and hosted an annual party at the Conservative Political Action Conference.īy 2017, Alexander had become an ardent Trump supporter with a passion for social-media trash talk. But despite his criminal background, Alexander-who was then using his legal name, Ali Akbar-managed to rise in the GOP during the online conservative backlash to the Obama administration. Originally from Dallas, Alexander pleaded guilty to felony property theft in 2007 and felony credit card abuse in 2008. “You’ll have sharing my entire network with you,” Alexander told Duncan, according to Snapchat screenshots reviewed by The Daily Beast. And now he was willing to share the connections he had gained through that work with Duncan, as long as the teenager met certain preconditions, including secrecy. While Duncan was a high-school sophomore just starting out in politics, Alexander was a 32-year-old with a decade of political work for the Republican Party behind him.
In 2017, Aidan Duncan-a 15-year-old boy in Colorado interested in right-wing politics-sent Alexander nude pictures after the MAGA activist asked him for them, according to an account Duncan gave in a March 2023 podcast appearance. “The reason I’m doing this is because he used my name,” Yiannopoulos told The Daily Beast. One screenshot purports to show Alexander dangling the prospect of a meeting with Yiannopoulos to a teenage boy. Yiannopoulos claims he’s releasing the video against Alexander because Alexander dropped Yiannopoulos’ name to entice young men. Yiannopoulos, whose own career as a far-right pundit imploded in 2017 after remarks he had made downplaying the seriousness of pedophilia surfaced, claims he has more damaging videos to release about Alexander and Fuentes.
Yiannopoulos started releasing video interviews and other evidence meant to prove that Alexander sexually propositioned both adult men in their 20s and at least two teenagers. But they reached a new level late last month after Milo Yiannopoulos -the controversial British provocateur and one-time Alexander ally-turned on Alexander after Alexander and Fuentes pushed him out of a potentially lucrative position in West’s nascent presidential campaign. Rumors about Alexander’s alleged sexual behavior towards younger men have circulated in conservative online circles since at least 2015. “That is to be determined by the boy who plays his cards the most correct.”
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