Richard Spencer asked to leave Conservative Political Action Conference

OXON HILL, Md. (AP) – White nationalist Richard Spencer says he’s been kicked out of a gathering of conservative activists.

Spencer posted a video on the internet saying he was “politely asked to leave” the Conservative Political Action Conference.

Spencer was booted shortly after being denounced by an organizer of the conference. American Conservative Union Executive Director Dan Schneider denounced the so-called alt-right as anti-Semitic, racist and sexist.

Spencer recently addressed a Washington alt-right gathering at which people were shown on video extending their arms in the Nazi salute.

Spencer spent almost an hour at CPAC talking to the media and conference attendees. He said he “coined the term” alt-right and was wearing a general admission badge.

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The leader of the American Conservative Union has taken the stage of an activist conference to forcefully denounce as “sinister” the alternative right. As he is speaking, a white nationalist leader is walking the hallways of the same event.

Dan Schneider, the ACU’s executive director, is calling the alt-right anti-Semitic, racist and sexist. He says people who hold those beliefs are in no way conservative. “They despise everything that we believe in.”

Schneider specifically decried a recent Washington meeting of people who were shown on video extending their arms in the Nazi salute.

Yet as Schneider is speaking, the leader of that meeting is steps away. Richard Spencer is telling reporters that he “coined the term” alt-right. He is wearing a general admission badge, an indication he paid to attend.