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D.C. lawmaker says recent

snowfall caused
by ‘Rothschilds controlling
the climate’

D.C. Council member reacts to unexpected snowfall

with conspiracy theory

Council member Trayon White Sr. (D-Ward 8) posted a video on

his Facebook page saying the snow resulted from "the
Rothschilds controlling the climate." (Trayon White/Facebook)

By Peter Jamison and Valerie Strauss

March 18, 2018 at 9:45 p.m. EDT

A D.C. lawmaker responded to a brief snowfall

Friday by publishing a video in which he
espoused a conspiracy theory that Jewish
financiers control the weather.

D.C. Council member Trayon White Sr. (D-

Ward 8) posted the video to his official
Facebook page at 7:21 a.m. as snow flurries
were hitting the nation’s capital. The video,
shot through the windshield of a car driving
west on Interstate 695 through downtown
Washington, shows snowy skies while White
narrates.

“Man, it just started snowing out of nowhere

this morning, man. Y’all better pay attention
to this climate control, man, this climate
manipulation,” he says. “And D.C. keep talking
about, ‘We a resilient city.’ And that’s a model
based off the Rothschilds controlling the
climate to create natural disasters they can pay
for to own the cities, man. Be careful.”

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The Rothschilds are a famous European

business dynasty descended from Mayer
Amschel Rothschild, an 18th-century Jewish
banker who lived in what is today Frankfurt,
Germany. The family has repeatedly been
subject over the years to anti-Semitic
conspiracy theories alleging that they and
other Jews clandestinely manipulate world
events for their advantage.

[The Rothschilds, a pamphlet by ‘Satan’ and

conspiracy theories tied to a battle 200 years
ago]

Rabbi Daniel Zemel of Temple Micah in

Northwest Washington denounced White’s
remarks, saying they contribute to a growing
mood of intolerance in the United States.

“This kind of anti-Semitism is unacceptable in

any public official. This so diminishes what
America is about and adds to the oppressive
feeling going on in the country right now,”
Zemel said. “We all have to be better. Public
officials have to learn not to say the first
ignorant thing that comes into their head.”

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The Anti-Defamation League reported last

month that ​anti-Semitic incidents in the
District more than doubled in 2017, compared
with 2015. That follows a similar escalation
nationwide.

White did not return calls for comment. In a

series of text messages, he confirmed the voice
in the video is his but expressed surprise that
his remarks might be construed as anti-
Semitic. Asked to clarify what he meant, he
wrote, “The video says what it says.”

However, about four hours after The

Washington Post published this story online
Sunday, White sent a statement of apology via
text message.

“I work hard everyday to combat racism and

prejudices of all kinds. I want to apologize to
the Jewish Community and anyone I have
offended,” he said. “The Jewish community
have been allies with me in my journey to help
people. I did not intend to be anti-Semitic, and
I see I should not have said that after learning
from my colleagues.”

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White said his “friends” at Jews United for

Justice, a group that advocates for progressive
causes and endorsed him in 2016, were
“helping me to understand the history of
comments made against Jews and I am
committed to figuring out ways continue to be
allies with them and others.”

D.C. Council member Brianne K. Nadeau (D-

Ward 1), who is Jewish, released a statement
Sunday night saying White had apologized and
“expressed his sincere regret . . . for having
offended members of the Jewish community.”

She added: “It is my sincere hope that my

colleague has learned from this experience,
and that together we can serve the diverse
people of the District of Columbia with a focus
on lifting each other up, rather than tearing
one another down.”

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White’s video statements appear to echo

beliefs, found lurking in corners of the
Internet, that the Rockefeller Foundation’s
Resilient Cities initiative — which provides
grants to cities, including the District, to
address environmental and economic
problems — is actually part of a secret scheme
to control and reduce the population of North
America.

[What are resilient cities?]

Some conspiracy theorists also think the

Rothschilds, acting in conjunction with the
Rockefeller family, have technology to
manipulate the weather — for example, by
causing freak storms that wreak havoc on
people, farms and livestock.

In a video posted to YouTube this year titled

“Kill Cities — Designed by Rothschild and
Rockefeller: Resilient Cities Are Human Death
Zones,” Internet commentator Deborah
Tavares — a Northern California resident who
argues, among other things, that climate
change and wireless electricity meters are
tools in a plot of global domination — calls the
Resilient Cities program a “diabolical” effort to
manipulate people.

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“This a genocide program,” she says. “We are

being moved now into what they call ‘resilient
cities.’ And it’s important to get this word out,
start looking it up: Resilient cities. Understand
what this is: This is a plan brought in by
Rothschild and Rockefeller.”

She adds, “We’re being categorized as lunatics,

but we know that the weather is massively and
completely, artificially controlled.”

Conspiracy theories alleging nefarious plots by

elites such as the Rothschilds and Rockefellers
— as well as other boogeymen such as the
illuminati and Freemasons — have
increasingly bobbed to the surface of American
politics in recent years.

The Republican Party’s 2012 platform

embraced what had previously been fringe
fears of a 1992 United Nations environmental
accord known as Agenda 21, stating that it was
“erosive of American sovereignty.” Assertions
that the pact was cover for a global plot had
become popular among tea party groups
battling local, state and federal environmental
regulations.

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Speculation that high-ranking Democratic

Party officials, including former presidential
candidate Hillary Clinton, were involved in a
child sex-trafficking ring run out of a D.C.
restaurant led to the infamous “Pizzagate”
episode in December 2016. A North Carolina
man showed up with a Colt AR-15 military-
style rifle and a .38-caliber Colt revolver at
Comet Ping Pong, a pizza joint in Northwest
Washington, saying he planned to investigate
the allegations.

[Pizzagate, from hashtag to gunfire]

He fired multiple shots inside the restaurant

before police arrested him. No one was
harmed.

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