Richard Spencer likely knew he had his candidate for president the moment Trump came down the golden escalator and said that Mexico wasn’t sending their best, they are rapists… that’s the kind of talk that speaks to the heart of someone like Spencer, a modern Klan-type man, one that wears a tie, not a hood. Trump did nothing from that point on that would give Spencer any doubts. He had his candidate and then had his president.

But everything that Trump touches dies and Spencer got a little too close to the sun, so to speak. The Charlottesville riots, in which one woman died, really opened the door to the underlying hatred and ugliness of the Trump movement. The vast majority of the public lashed back and it hit Spencer wear it hurt, right in his hometown, Rawstory brings us the summary:

Whitefish, a mostly liberal, affluent community nestled in a county that voted for Mr. Trump in 2016 and 2020, rose up and struck back. Residents who joined with state officials, human rights groups and synagogues say their bipartisan counteroffensive could hold lessons for others in an era of disinformation and intimidation, and in the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.”

According to Williamson’s report, “Leaders in Whitefish say Mr. Spencer, who once ran his National Policy Institute from his mother’s $3 million summer house here, is now an outcast in this resort town in the Rocky Mountains, unable to get a table at many of its restaurants. His organization has dissolved. Meanwhile, his wife has divorced him, and he is facing trial next month in Charlottesville, Va., over his role in the deadly 2017 neo-Nazi march there, but says he cannot afford a lawyer.”

And that’s not all. He’s facing lawsuits due to his involvement in the “protest” and he’s going to lose. He doesn’t have an attorney, he cannot afford one:

As for Spencer’s legal p[roblems, the Charlottesville trial is expected to start on Oct. 25, with the Times reporting, “… counterprotesters filed suit against [neo=Nazi] Mr. Andrew Anglin as well as Mr. Spencer, along with nearly two dozen people and groups involved in the ‘Unite the Right’ rally, after a neo-Nazi at the Charlottesville march plowed his car into a crowd of counterprotesters, killing Heather Heyer, 32, and injuring at least 19 others.”

The report goes on to note Spencer’s lawyer dropped him as a client after not being paid, and that Spenser — who will act as his own attorney –said he has run into money problems, explaining, “Due to deplatforming efforts against me, it is very difficult for me to raise money as other citizens are able to.”

The article mentions that he ran his empire out of his mother’s 3 million dollar home. It didn’t indicate whether he lived in that home as an inheritance or whether mom still lived there. If he inherited it and the property is in his name, he can likely kiss that home goodbye.

Couldn’t happen to a more deserving guy.

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