Trump Supporters React After Alt-Right Video Shows Nazi-Style Salute
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MIAMI (CBSMiami) -- A video is jarring for many as an alt right group is seen using a nazi-style salute, celebrating a Donald Trump victory.
"Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory," yelled white supremacist Richard Spencer.
He delivered a racist and anti-Semitic address at a National Policy Institute dinner. Donald Trump condemned it, telling the New York Times, "It's not a group I want to energize. And if they are energized I want to look into it and find out why."
"I think the video is horrible," said Fort Lauderdale Attorney and Trump supporter Brad Cohen.
Cohen is a big Trump supporter and fired contestant on Trump's reality show "The Apprentice." He strongly defends Trump saying he's not anti-Semitic, he's pro-Israel and plans to be president for everyone.
"Trump is going to stick by his guns and he's going to stick with what he said during his campaign and his campaign was one of inclusion of everyone," said Cohen.
Many who are not Trump supporters were alarmed not only by the video, but Trump hiring Steven Bannon from Breitbart News - a website seen as a large platform for the alt right movement. Bannon insists he's not alt right.
"I'm sure I have read some things that he's said in the past that were off color but I didn't find him to be an individual that I would find him to be fearful of in the White House," said Cohen.
David Schaecter is a Holocaust survivor. He did not speak about Trump, but what he saw of the video showing the Nazi salute troubled him.
"This is like I'm being stabbed with the sharpest of....right into my heart," said Schaecter. "I'm saying to myself 'what has to happen for the world to walk away, for the world to say it cannot continue. It mustn't evolve, it mustn't happen?'"
Schaecter has dedicated his life to preaching tolerance and the lesson of fighting bigotry and hate when you see it.
"You need to scream. You need to yell loud and clear that this is not the right thing, that this is ugly and this is not human, but mostly it's not decent," said Schaecter.
The Southern Poverty Law Project reports more than 700 instances of hateful harassment since the election. It has a map on its website that tracks hate groups and where they are. Click here to see it.
