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Attorney General Bill Barr Meets With Radical Right-Wing Activist Dave Daubenmire

Radical right-wing activist Dave Daubenmire with Attorney General William Barr, Oct. 31, 2020. (Screenshot from Facebook)

On Friday and Saturday, a small group of right-wing activists, led by radical religious-right bigot(link is external) Dave Daubenmire, carried out a series of protests outside the home(link is external) of Joe Biden in Delaware, as well as the home of(link is external) former president Barack Obama in Washington, D.C., demanding that the Democratic presidential nominee and the president for whom he worked as vice president be arrested, tried, and executed(link is external) for treason.

On Saturday afternoon, Daubenmire and crew took their protest to the home of Attorney General Bill Barr, who personally came out to meet the group(link is external), pray with them(link is external), and take photos with them(link is external).

The protests were a continuation of Daubenmire's "Equal Justice Tour(link is external)," which began in 2019(link is external), when the same group of activists protested(link is external) outside the home of Bill and Hillary Clinton in Chappaqua, New York, declaring that Hillary must be arrested and sent to prison so that(link is external) she would "be taught to fear God."

Since then, Daubenmire has only ratcheted up his attacks on Clinton, declaring(link is external) last month that she must be publicly executed.

“I do not believe that there has ever been a more corrupt American politician than Hillary Clinton,” Daubenmire said(link is external) on the Oct. 8 episode of his "Pass The Salt Live" program. “Her public life has been one slimy action after another. The demonic left loves her. There is no doubt in my mind that she is under control of very dark forces. Spiritual forces. Demonic forces. Gates of hell forces. Hillary Clinton is a child of the devil.”

“The greatest example of love is discipline,” he added later in the program. “The greatest example of love is to kill those traitors, so others learn never to do it.”

Daubenmire is a deeply bigoted(link is external), anti-Semitic(link is external), anti-choice(link is external), anti-LGBTQ(link is external), right-wing(link is external) conspiracy theorist(link is external)—the sort who proudly declares that women become lesbians because(link is external) they are so ugly that no man could ever love them, asserts that Barack Obama was(link is external) “a quasi-Muslim freak” and “an emissary from Hell,(link is external)” warns that Oprah Winfrey was planning to run for president in order to carry out(link is external) a white genocide, complains(link is external) that he is not allowed to say the “N-word,” gripes(link is external) that the marriage of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle was a “psy-op” intended to promote “the blending of the races,” and calls(link is external) interracial marriage “spiritual AIDS.”

Daubenmire has defended(link is external) former Republican senatorial nominee Roy Moore, the ​anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church(link is external), and the extremists he deemed “patriots(link is external)” who marched at the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017. He has also declared(link is external) that only evangelical Christians should be allowed to serve on the Supreme Court, proclaimed(link is external) that a woman can never be president “because women are not to have authority over men,” lamented(link is external) that the North won the Civil War, and called for(link is external) the embrace of a “more violent Christianity.”

Daubenmire is(link is external) openly(link is external) homophobic(link is external) and regularly accuses Democratic politicians of being "non-human(link is external)" and demon possessed(link is external).

Daubenmire made news earlier this year by threatening to sue(link is external) the NFL for supposedly putting his eternal salvation at risk by broadcasting unsolicited “crotch shots” of performers into his home during the Super Bowl halftime show.(link is external)

By any measure, Dave Daubenmire is a thoroughly radical and intensely bigoted right-wing activist for whom the U.S. attorney general inexplicably found time to personally speak, pray, and take photos with yesterday​, even as Daubenmire was protesting​ to demand the arrest and execution of leading Democratic political figures.