Talking Points Memo reports:
The ChickenRight persona was a unique figure in the Groyper movement. Nick Fuentes’ core audience is made up of young, alienated “Zoomers” who watch his hours-long streams, in which he rails against minorities and gays.
But ChickenRight wasn’t just some kid tuning in to Fuentes’ fringe online world from a basement. Evidence indicates ChickenRight has a real job in the corridors of power in Washington D.C.
TPM has uncovered an extensive digital trail of interconnected Groyper social media pages using variations of the “ChickenRight” and “Chikken” handles that can be linked to Wade Searle, who works as the digital director for Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), one of the most extreme, far-right members of Congress.
Read the full article.
There’s much more and plenty of receipts. No paywall.
As Gosar’s digital director, it’s possible that Searle was responsible for Gosar’s tweeted anime video showing him killing AOC and Biden with a sword.
Minutes after being censured and removed from his committees for the threat, Gosar tweeted out the video a second time.
The next day Trump endorsed his reelection bid. Gosar’s committee assignments were restored when McCarthy became speaker.
We started probing a guy who pro-Hitler White Supremacist Nick Fuentes calls one of the “strongest soldiers” in his movement and it turns out he works as a staffer on Capitol Hill. https://t.co/D9NaE2J9ax via @TPM
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) May 14, 2023
If you ever wondered why 64-year old Paul Gosar posts like he’s a Zoomer groyper with a habit of shitposting for Nick Fuentes, wonder no more.
Meet Wade Searle, Gosar’s groyper staffer, who stood alongside Fuentes at AZ Stop the Steal. *sigh* he also took Fuentes’ loyalty pledge. https://t.co/RdVfAE5VJL pic.twitter.com/zhkYiNDwsn— AZ Right Wing Watch (@az_rww) May 14, 2023
Wade Searle is a dedicated Fuentes “intern” with a semi-large following in groyper world. He was known as “The Chicken Right,” Chicken/“Chikken” and “Right Wing Chicken Wing,” which were his multiple online aliases. He even mods on Fuentes’ Cozy account.https://t.co/qAH58slYBU
— AZ Right Wing Watch (@az_rww) May 14, 2023
How did the deleted Chicken accounts get tied to Searle? A LOT of digging (read the article) BUT this post from a Nov. 2020 “Stop the Steal” rally in Phoenix definitely helped. Here he is taking pics with Nick Fuentes, Vincent James Foxx, Baked Alaska, & Jaden McNeil at the rally pic.twitter.com/h30xWOyNAX
— AZ Right Wing Watch (@az_rww) May 14, 2023
Wade Searle also appeared behind Nick Fuentes during his AZ “Stop the Steal” speech in Nov. 2020. He held up Fuentes’ “America First”-branded flag and a homemade “AF” sign. Searle then used a photo of this day across his “Chicken” accounts and under an account under his real name pic.twitter.com/tRzr8ItLvL
— AZ Right Wing Watch (@az_rww) May 14, 2023
On a Fuentes stream he asked his followers to pledge allegiance to him: “I swear I will defend the white race, my nation America, my savior Jesus Christ, & my loyalty to the America First movement, Nicholas J. Fuentes, so help me God.”
Chikken/Searle obliged & later donated $150 pic.twitter.com/cL3kDNJWzb
— AZ Right Wing Watch (@az_rww) May 14, 2023
Wade Searle’s “Chikken” pseudonym was also revealed by some of his own in those typical petty feuds you’ll find between neofascists. When there was a fracture in Groyper World, some also exposed his identity as Chicken and Gosar’s staffer (meaning some knew of Searle’s role.)
— AZ Right Wing Watch (@az_rww) May 15, 2023
Also, remember when Gosar spread a vicious lie about the Uvalde mass shooter, Salvador Ramos, being a “transsexual leftist illegal alien.” The Twitter comment from Gosar was in quick response to someone accusing groypers of the massacre.https://t.co/E8wHnB1kQb pic.twitter.com/Yjtt6AlG4O
— AZ Right Wing Watch (@az_rww) May 15, 2023
Also. And interesting timeline of events here. In Aug. 2021, Searle claims Gosar will be joining the far-right Gab soon. On November 17, 2021, Gosar is censured for the violent @AOC anime video. The next day Searle is officially hired and the day after that, Gosar joins Gab. pic.twitter.com/AYnOUx6Exf
— AZ Right Wing Watch (@az_rww) May 15, 2023
Before Wade Searle was shitposting for Gosar as his Digital Director, he was also shitposting over his love for Trump & Nick Fuentes (though he still does that). Searle made groyper fancams and edits under his “Chikken” pseudonym and usually behind a Minion profile pic. Example: pic.twitter.com/QTNaDaGzsH
— AZ Right Wing Watch (@az_rww) May 15, 2023
Also, one final thing. At least one of the “Chicken Right” accounts had two mods. One of the Twitter accounts also gave access to “L” or “Landen.” That would be Landen Petersen. Searle’s friend who now works as an intern for… you guessed it Paul Gosar.https://t.co/qAH58slYBU pic.twitter.com/O9xdo9V6Fw
— AZ Right Wing Watch (@az_rww) May 15, 2023