The account, followed by JD Vance, previously boasted of being a white supremacist. Days after the 2024 election, Vice President JD Vance followed @captivedreamer7, an X user who boasted that his viral tweets about Haitians allegedly eating cats in September 2024 put it on Vance’s radar, sparking a weeks-long panic. The specious tale of migrants was a microcosm of both the election and Captive Dreamer’s online output, pro-white sentiments cloaked in anti-immigrant language. But Captive Dreamer doesn’t just have a follow from the vice president. Prominent members of the second Trump administration, including Elon Musk and U.S. interim attorney for Washington, D.C. Ed Martin, recently replied to the account. On Feb. 5, as Musk tore through USAID’s funding, Captive Dreamer, misreading a quote in a news article, asked if the agency had been propping up all of left-wing Europe with cash. “Yes,” Musk replied, his response drawing six million views. Captive Dreamer also flagged posts for Martin, who launched a campaign to prosecute online threats against Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), as the identities of Musk’s team were revealed. On Feb. 3, Will Stancil, a research fellow, shared the name and a photo of a DOGE employee. Captive Dreamer replied to Stancil with a quote from Martin warning about “targeting DOGE employees.” Stancil responded by calling Captive Dreamer a “neo-Nazi,” part of months-long-back-and-forth the two have had.
via dailydot: EXCLUSIVE: A Hitler-quoting ‘Aryan’ has the attention of JD Vance and Elon Musk—who is @captivedreamer7?