{"id":8976,"date":"2020-03-29T08:17:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T12:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idavox.com\/?p=8976"},"modified":"2020-03-29T08:30:53","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T12:30:53","slug":"nsms-jeff-schoep-may-be-playing-folks-with-his-conversion-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idavox.com\/index.php\/2020\/03\/29\/nsms-jeff-schoep-may-be-playing-folks-with-his-conversion-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"NSM’s Jeff Schoep May Be Playing Folks With This Conversion Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You have to pretty much find it hidden in the footnotes of a court document filed a few weeks ago, but you can’t unsee it once you do: The onetime National Socialist Movement’s leader who said he denounces them and hate overall reportedly is still working with them. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

On Friday, Jeff Schoep tweeted out a statement: \u201cOver a year\nago I walked away from #extremism & made the choice to speak out against\n#hate 2 promote #peace inclusion & help others leave extremism. At great\npersonal risk I do this to make amends 4 my past & the hate I once spewed.\n#Change is real even if some refuse 2 believe.\u201d The tweet is intended to\nreinforce the role that Schoep has been seen taking on over the past year, but\nmany have been skeptical about his supposed transition. Now a footnote in a\nrecent court document may have confirmed those concerns, indicating that Schoep\nhas in fact still been active all this time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those court documents<\/a> filed on March 11 are part of an ongoing lawsuit against the National Socialist Movement (NSM), which Schoep led for over two decades, and others reportedly involved in the violence during the \u201cUnite the Right\u201d rally in Charlottesville, Virginia three years ago. In a motion to compel discovery from the NSM, it was noted that  Burt Colucci, who currently leads the NSM, had admitted that the discovery requested was incomplete, and in particular, a response to an interrogatory asking the group to identify all persons he communicated in regards to Unite the Right. The damning footnote was in relation to this particular passage in the motion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cColucci\u2019s deposition also revealed that Schoep and (Acacia) Dietz have continued to participate in NSM\u2019s activities, even as Schoep claims to have left the white-supremacist movement,\u201d the footnote read. \u201cFor example, on October 13, 2019, Schoep warned Colucci via text message that someone who was calling into Colucci\u2019s podcast with death threats was \u2018baiting\u2019 him and was actually a federal informant.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am shocked that Jeff Schoep hasn’t really left the movement. pic.twitter.com\/HRRvI5AGCu<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Shawn Breen (@TTOJAF) March 11, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote>