“The people who lead us act as if they were Jews and as if they were Christians. They are not Christians or Jews, they are Satanists. And they belong to secret societies, and that’s where their loyalty lies, not to God, or to Jesus, or to anything else, except the deceiver.”
Pedersen told WIRED that an Ireland-based X account invited him to “explain to them what Q is, not what the mainstream media says, but what it really is,” adding that he wanted to spread the message that “if “The United States falls, by not electing Donald Trump, the whole world falls.”
Far-right Canadians have also increasingly focused on Ireland.
Ezra Levant, founder of Rebel News, a far-right website that promotes Islamophobic content, traveled to Ireland to report on the anti-immigrant protests in Dublin, interviewing several prominent members of Ireland’s far-right community. Shane Sweeney, a Newfoundland influencer who regularly posts white nationalist content on social media, is also closely linked to Butler and regularly joins him in online discussions.
Levant did not respond to requests for comment. Sweeney declined to comment.
During a series of conversations in recent months, some members of these far-right groups have suggested that they have connections to people in the United States who might be willing to provide funding to Irish extremist groups.
While no evidence was provided to support these claims, a recent fundraiser for an Irish far-right group indicates that there is at least some willingness on the part of Americans to donate money to these causes.
Justin Barrett, a well-known figure in far-right Irish politics who has called Hitler the greatest leader of all timerecently launched a fundraiser on the Christian fundraising site GiveSendGo. The money was intended for the National Shield, the “protection unit” of his newly created political party, called Clann Eireann, which means “Family of Ireland.”
While the effort has so far raised only €3,000 of its €10,000 goal, many of those donating money claim to be based in the United States. “Much love from the United States,” wrote one donor, while another added: “Integration has failed in the United States. We can move out of town (sic). You live on an island. You have nowhere to go. “Fight against the invasion.”
Far-right Irish influencer Keith O’Brien, known online as Keith Woods, is also seeking to benefit financially from his ties to the United States. O’Brien has spent years building relationships with figures in the American far-right movement, including Fuentes, who has featured the Irishman on numerous occasions on his podcast. Woods also appeared last summer before a notorious white supremacist. conference in Tennessee.
“It has a significant American audience very focused in the same space as Nick Fuentes and the Groyper movement,” Malone said. “There’s not a big Irish audience paying for his material, so O’Brien is really focused on America.”
O’Brien did not respond to a request for comment.
In the United States, armed militias are once again organizing at the local level ahead of the November elections, and although the Irish do not have easy access to weapons, efforts are being made to create localized groups.