Elliott Kline, the No. 2 in command of the white nationalist group Identity Evropa, had lined up funding for a job as a full-time organizer for the Unite the Right rally, alongside Jason Kessler. (…) The three men are among 24 defendants on trial in Charlottesville alleged to have violated the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act by conspiring to commit racially motivated violence. The chats also show Kline deepening in his commitment to the white nationalist movement and preparing to take the reins of leadership from Identity Evropa founder Nathan Damigo — also a defendant — in the run-up to the Unite the Right rally. “I’m about to double down in the movement harder than I already have,” Kline said. “I asked her if she thought it was a good idea. She was excited. And now she wants out. It’s too late for me to turn it down now. Half the reason I took the opportunity was because I knew I’d be able to support her with it. It’s no secret but I’m taking over IE from Nathan and I’m going to be paid from private donors some good money.” (…) Like Spencer and Kessler, Identity Evropa was part of the Unite the Right coalition that placed a relative degree of emphasis on optics and respectability, relative to the more working-class constituent organizations in the defunct Nationalist Front Alliance (Traditionalist Worker Party, League of the South and National Socialist Movement), along with Andrew Anglin and Robert “Azzmador” Ray of the Daily Stormer website, and neo-Nazi podcaster Christopher Cantwell. All of the organizations and their leaders are defendants in the lawsuit. (…) But inside Identity Evropa, Froelich testified, leaders like her boyfriend Kline were obsessed with The Turner Diaries, a novel written by white supremacist William Pierce that envisioned a “day of the rope” when everyone but cisgender non-semitic whites would be hung from lampposts; with RaHoWar, or racial holy war; and the final solution, Adolf Hitler’s program of exterminating Jews through the Holocaust during World War II. “He would talk about it with glee,” Froelich testified. “He was very excited about the prospect of killing Jewish people.”
via rawstory: ‘Excited about killing Jewish people’: Blockbuster Charlottesville testimony suggests Nazi defendants had bigger goals