GOP donor known for racist tweet, American flag outfit dies in attempted murder-suicide
GOP donor known for racist tweet, American flag outfit dies in attempted murder-suicide
A Republican activist who has been a reliable donor to Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — despite a racist tweet that put him on the outs with DeSantis’ predecessor, Rick Scott — shot a woman and then himself in the parking lot of a Palm Beach County restaurant, according to sheriff’s deputies.
The activist, 72-year-old Steve Alembik, died. The woman, wounded in the back and arm, survived when she ran into the restaurant bleeding and was rushed to the hospital.
The shooting happened at a Burgerfi outlet in Delray Beach a week ago Monday, although Alembik’s identity wasn’t revealed until last Friday in the Boca Raton News. The wounded victim was believed to be his wife.
Over the past 20 years, Alembik, gave more than $200,000 in political contributions, mainly to Republicans, including thousands of dollars to both DeSantis and Donald Trump. The founder of a Boca Raton digital marketing company, the Democrat-turned-Republican earned notoriety in 2018 by referring to former President Barack Obama as a “f******* Muslim n*****” in a post on the social media platform X, then known as Twitter.
“Activist”. What idiot wrote this? If they were brown it would say terrorist.
This redneck fuck was a terrorist. Good riddance.
Because everyone is afraid of what the lunatic fringe
will dois already doing. Nobody wants to appear responsible for escalating the violence.This demands repeating:
Politicians, media, prosecutors, judges -- There is already violence. There will be more violence. Not if, when. The sooner you stop thinking we can go back the way we came, the quicker we'll be done with all this. The only way out is through.
He also would have been described as a "responsible gun owner" 24 hours ago since the gun was likely legally purchased and he hadn't lost control of his emotions and killed anyone with it yet.
Surprised they didn't call him a "protestor". Shit journalism.
We need more investigations into these kinds of domestic terror networks.
Technically he is brown, I really don't know where the line is anymore for who's a terrorist and who's not according to the Peter Griffin skin shade scale, but it's seemed to devolve into "if he's a far right person then he must not be a terrorist" because you can't say it's conservatives because Jihadists are conservatives, then you have Hindu nationalists, the line really only seems to be "Donald Trump fan" not a terrorist, all others, terrorist.
And, just like that, there's one less Nazi in the world.
It feels very Trump to try to commit a murder-suicide and end up being the only one who dies.
It's always the ones you most suspect.
Why am I not surprised that someone who would donate that much money to Donald Trump is apparently completely unhinged?
Alembik, who describes DeSantis as one of his “close friends” in a post on LinkedIn, first attracted attention in the wake of Trump’s comments following a 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia that left a counter-protester dead. After Trump insisted their were “many fine people” on both sides of the issue, mainstream charities pulled events from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club.
Alembik, however, decided to move a charity gala for his newly formed pro-Israel nonprofit group, Truth About Israel, to Mar-a-Lago to help fill the void.
His non-profit, looks like a website dedicated to claiming that Israel is not an Apartheid state. Beware, it looks like the site has been neglected for some time.
That being said, it also looks like he didn't really do anything with the charity outside of a quick youtube channel. Like nothing. I can't find public records on what he used the money on, or donations, or Even pictures of projects he did.
It is a charity in name only.
Probably just some good old money laundering with the "charity."
Well if points drew a line, then the dots are arranging themselves in a way where people who thought they were donating to Jewish culture preservation actually partially funded Trump's legal depute with Stormy Daniels at the end of the money trail.
Lord, I do hope I am wrong.
Good. More uplifting news, please.
Inb4 likeminded knuckle-draggers say it was antifa.
This shitstain took too long to remove himself. Save the world, encourage more maga Republicans to follow suit.