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Richard Bertrand Spencer, born on the 11th of May, 1978, is an American neo-Nazi, antisemitic conspiracy theorist, and white supremacist. He claims to have coined the term "alt-right" in 2008 and was its most prominent advocate from the movement's earliest days.
The August 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, turned violent when a driver plowed into counter-protesters, killing one woman and injuring 30 others severely enough to require hospital treatment. Spencer was listed as an organizer on promotional materials for the event.
On the 23rd of November, 2021, a jury found Spencer liable on two counts: civil conspiracy under Virginia state law and race-based harassment or violence. Jurors awarded more than $25 million in total damages, with Spencer personally responsible for $700,000 in punitive damages.
Spencer was deported from Hungary in 2014, triggering a ban under the Schengen Agreement covering 26 European countries. Poland's government also banned him, citing Nazi rhetoric and the Nazis' genocide of Slavic peoples. In July 2018, Polish officials had him detained at Keflavík Airport in Iceland and ordered him to return to the United States.
Security for Spencer's the 19th of October 2017 appearance at the Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Florida was estimated at $600,000. Florida Governor Rick Scott declared a state of emergency for Alachua County three days before the event.
Spencer publicly distanced himself from Trump by 2018, voted for Joe Biden in 2020, and endorsed Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election. In a 2022 text exchange with a journalist for Jezebel, he said he "no longer identifies as a white nationalist." That same year he described himself on the dating app Bumble as "politically moderate."