Ngo Had To Go: The Curious ‘Resignation’ of a Neo-Fascist Propagandist

So long as there are people trying to make the fash victims because others won’t let them get their fash on, those others will keep reminding everyone why – and then a decision will have to be made. Ngo might be learning that the hard way – as will others.

When propagandist Andy Ngo claimed to have been assaulted during a protest organized by the neo-Fascist group Patriot Prayer, he was able to parlay the sympathy and hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations he gained from right wing circles as well as from CNN’s Jake Tapper into a crusade against political violence from the left, it was while he was an editor for the right-wing op-ed website Quillette. However, as video surfaced that he worked closely with the Patriot Prayer, most notably during a May 1 incident that devolved into a clash between Patriot Prayer, Proud Boys and antifa, the public started to take notice of how vile Ngo just might be, and it all might have cost him his position at Quillette.

Quillette announced on Monday that Ngo resigned that editor position he held with the website, but it wasn’t before a number of Twitter posts spoke yesterday of how Ngo did not list Qullette on his bio anymore, and that he was even scrubbed from the website itself. While he was indeed removed from the website’s masthead on Monday, there are however a number of articles and photos from Ngo that remain on Quillette, whose editor-in-chief Claire Lehmann told the Daily Beast that he had actually left weeks ago and had nothing to do with the Portland Mercury story about someone on the left who went undercover to document Patriot Prayer and the Proud Boys, videotaping them as they plotted to attack antifa on May 1 at a Portland bar called Cider Riot, and quite possibly damning Ngo as complicit in their plans. “Andy actually moved on from Quillette a few weeks ago because he is undertaking bigger & better projects, we just hadn’t updated the website and he hadn’t updated his Twitter bio until today,” Lehman emailed the Daily Beast.

Still, the timing is curious. Several members of Patriot Prayer, including its leader Joey Gibson and the Proud Boys were arrested and charged with inciting a riot because of the video. The video shows Ngo witnessing Patriot Prayer’s planning the attack, but he never reported on that planning, and the Portland Mercury article says the infiltrator, who calls himself “Ben”, noted that Ngo only turned his camera on when he sees antifa. “There’s an understanding,” Ben said, “that Patriot Prayer protects him and he protects them.” 

Ngo has been a concern for a number of years because of his selectively edited videos and spins of events in Portland and elsewhere that are geared to supporting a right wing position. He is particularly known for spinning events involving Muslims to advance the idea of terrorism coming from those practicing that faith, something that cost him his editor’s position at the Portland State University newspaper the Vanguard, and although himself a gay man,  dismissing many reports of hate crimes against the LGBTQ+ community as hoaxes. Weeks after the May 1 incident, a long-discredited right-wing troll named Eoin Lenihan, who used to post under the name “Progdad” until Twitter suspended him last year, tweeted what was supposed to be excerpts from a data set suggesting that certain journalists who cover extremist movements were “closely associated” with antifa, and when right wing media outlets including Quilette, who gave Lenihan a platform to write about what he said he found, similarly promoted Lenihan’s Twitter thread, it resulted in a hit list targeting those journalists. Not only did Ngo promote and to this day still promotes the list, he ironically tweeted how Lenihan, as opposed to the targeted journalists, is himself being targeted. None of the journalists on the list has called for any harm to come to Lenihan.

Remember the @Quillette article examining how pro-antifa journalists white-wash & mainstream the extremist movement? Its author Dr Eoin Lenihan now details what happened to him after it was published. He was targeted in a campaign by those exposed writers. https://t.co/cEcpQbmppp

— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) June 21, 2019

Ngo is scheduled to participate in a conference this Saturday by fellow propagandist Tim Pool. According to reports, it is currently being held in an as of yet unannounced location in Philadelphia, PA after the original venue in Pittman, NJ shut their doors to the event.