U.S. State Department Official Involved in White Nationalist Movement
The official, Matthew Q. Gebert, works as a foreign affairs officer assigned to the Bureau of Energy Resources, a State Department spokesperson told Hatewatch. Online, and in private correspondences with other white nationalists, Gebert uses Coach Finstock as a pseudonym. Through that alias, he expressed a desire to build a country for whites only.
[Whites] need a country of our own with nukes, and we will retake this thing lickety split, Coach Finstock said on a May 2018 episode of The Fatherland, a white nationalist podcast. Thats all that we need. We need a country founded for white people with a nuclear deterrent. And you watch how the world trembles.
Gebert joined the State Department in 2013 as a presidential management fellow, according to an alumni update published about him in George Washington Universitys GW Magazine that summer. Presidential management fellowships are considered prestigious. The program has a "narrow focus developing a cadre of potential government leaders," according to a website devoted to the program.
A post Gebert made as Finstock on a white nationalism-focused forum called The Right Stuff suggests his radicalization started in 2015, two years after he started his job with the State Department. I got into this [movement] and off the conservative reservation in 2015, he wrote in a January 2018 thread called Ricky Vaughn is a N*****faggot who has no place in [The Right Stuff], which referred to the pseudonymous identity used by an internet personality in the white nationalist alt-right movement.
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/08/07/us-state-department-official-involved-white-nationalist-movement-hatewatch-determines