Clarence Thomas's Billionaire Benefactor Collects Hitler Artifacts

[douglas9]

When Republican megadonor Harlan Crow isn’t lavishing Justice Clarence Thomas with free trips on his private plane and yacht (in possible violation of Supreme Court ethics rules), he lives a quiet life in Dallas among his historical collections. These collections include Hitler artifacts—two of his paintings of European cityscapes, a signed copy of Mein Kampf, and assorted Nazi memorabilia—plus a garden full of statues of the 20th century’s worst despots.

Crow, the billionaire heir to a real estate fortune, has said that he’s filled his property with these mementoes because he hates communism and fascism. Nonetheless, his collections caused an uproar back in 2015 when Marco Rubio attended a fundraiser at Crow’s house on the eve of Yom Kippur. Rubio’s critics thought the timing was inappropriate given, you know, the Hitler stuff.

“I still can’t get over the collection of Nazi memorabilia,” says one person who attended an event at Crow’s home a few years ago and asked to remain anonymous. “It would have been helpful to have someone explain the significance of all the items. Without that context, you sort of just gasp when you walk into the room.” One memorable aspect was the paintings: “something done by George W. Bush next to a Norman Rockwell next to one by Hitler.” They also said it was “startling” and “strange” to see the dictator sculptures in the backyard.


https://www.washingtonian.com/2023/04/07/clarence-thomass-billionaire-benefactor-collects-hitler-artifacts/

[C_U_L8R]

1. Of course he does.

Ever feel we're in the middle of a terrible movie.

[walkingman]

3. Yeah, the Twilight Zone and I don't think it will end well.

[Marius25]

13. Yes. Harlan Crow sounds like a Batman villain

[SouthernDem4ever]

21. My first thought all the time lately

"of course he does"

[Walleye]

2. What is this starting to sound like some kind of Star Trek villain's cult

[Casady1]

4. I think it is his admiration

os these people is why he has this collection.

[dalton99a]

5. But but it's cultural heritage

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A set of Nazi linens displayed in Harlan Crow’s home. The photo was taken by somebody who attended an event there a few years ago.



Nazi artifacts on display in Harlan Crow’s home, also photographed by the person who attended an event there a few years ago.



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[NoMoreRepugs]

6. Harlan "Jim" Crow is the quintessential Deplorable donor maybe?

[TreasonousBastard]

7. OK, we get it. Hitler hated Stalin. But dies that mean we can't...

hate both of them?

[Farmer-Rick]

32. I think in the end Stalin won

Stalin defeated Hitler when Hitler invaded Russia. Stalin also died a rather natural death due to a stroke but some say he may have been poisoned. But Stalin was never a healthy man, he had a withered arm, was constantly sick or injured as a child and had other heart problems.

But Stalin died in bed in 1953, though he was supposedly in agony for days. While Hitler died in 1945 from suicide in an underground shelter while bombs were dropping all around him.

Hitler was a mass murderer and an absolute failure.

Stalin was a mass murderer and outlived one of his most hated enemies. But in the end they both died as miserable human beings.

[TreasonousBastard]

35. Imagine how well we would have done without either of them.

[hatrack]

8. Cool and Normal!!

[leftyladyfrommo]

9. Jees! The rot just keeps spreading. nt

[snowybirdie]

10. I can see

this fool in a James Bond movie as the villain walking around with a black crow on his shoulder.

[Ocelot II]

11. That's... unsettling. He's beginning to sound like a Marvel movie bad guy.

How is it that a Supreme Court justice, especially a Black one, isn't disturbed by a collection of Nazi artifacts and a garden full of statues of despots? I guess those $500K vacations made it pretty easy to turn a blind eye to evidence that this guy is almost a caricature of a Bond villain.

Statues of despots? "My Hitler is the centerpiece, of course; but here's a nice rendering of Stalin - I think the sculptor did a great job with the mustache - and this bronze Pol Pot has always been one of my favorites. Over here is a lovely plinth I'm getting ready for President Trump!" Does he have a model train set with little cattle cars and a model Auschwitz, ffs?

[malaise]

12. I'm shocked I tell you

NOT

[lindysalsagal]

14. This needs prosecuting. I heard about it on msnbc yesterday. I hope the story has legs.

[Marius25]

17. I seriously doubt DoJ does anything about this

We're having enough trouble getting them to hold Trump and his allies accountable for trying to overthrow the government.

[Ocelot II]

40. There's not much they can do about it.

Failing to report gifts per the disclosure rules is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine.

[Elessar Zappa]

28. It might not be illegal.

It’s definitely immoral but for criminal charges you’d have to prove it was a bribe. We all know it is but proving it is tricky.

[B.See]

15. And his name is CROW. How apropos!

Fascists and neo-Nazis just LOVES them some Black props.

[erronis]

30. "Black props" - good one. Also throw in a handmaiden and a drunk and ideologues.

You've got the makeup of the conservative SCOTUS.

[PlutosHeart]

33. Gifting Thomas Frederick Douglass's bible

made me sick to my stomach.

[Skittles]

45. his dad Trammell is a well-known name in Texas

[Kid Berwyn]

16. Memento

memento (n.)

late 14c., "Psalm cxxxi in the Canon of the Mass" (which begins with the Latin word Memento and in which the dead are commemorated), from Latin memento "remember," second person singular imperative of meminisse "to remember, recollect, think of, bear in mind," a reduplicated form, related to mens "mind," from PIE root *men- (1) "to think." Meaning "a hint or suggestion to awaken memory, a reminder, an object serving as a warning" is from 1580s; sense of "keepsake" is recorded by 1768.

Forgotten

[applegrove]

18. Not surprised.

[Hotler]

19. I don't think the 1/6 committee looked to deeply into who the money people were

funding the coup.

[PatrickforB]

20. LOL, how can we POSSIBLY be surprised at that! n/t

[Orrex]

22. Instead of "benefactor," let's just say "owner"

[PatSeg]

23. That is super creepy

Gives me the chills.

[gulliver]

24. Is there maybe a pedestal with the name Clarence Thomas on it there too?

Maybe some of Thomas's travel is to go stand on that pedestal from time to time when Crow wants to show off "the collection."

[erronis]

31. Good one. He may agree to wear shackles just to play the part better.

[hibbing]

25. "billionaire heir"

Another Horatio Alger story.

Peace

[Wild blueberry]

26. Rotten

[greatauntoftriplets]

27. wtf?

[dchill]

29. This is all on par.

[rogue emissary]

34. I get being a billionaire means your not the nicest person around.

Don't see why you'd have to be one.of the worst.

[Liberal In Texas]

36. "Heir to a real estate fortune..."

Just another example of why the inheritance taxes should be in the 95% range.

"Death Tax?" Yep, when Trammel Crow died his company should have been liquidated and the proceeds sent to Uncle Sam. Harlan would have had plenty to live on with what was left over.

[Quixote1818]

37. K and R

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

39. sounds like the start of a "Dark Mirror" episode

[LetMyPeopleVote]

41. A signed copy of Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf." Here's a photo of his book below.

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Just putting this out there, but Harlan Crow, the dude who has been paying for Clarence Thomas and Ginni Thomas to go on $500k vacations over the last 20 years, also owns a signed copy of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf." Here's a photo of his book below.

I'm Not saying he is a Nazi or Nazi sympathizer but who the hell would pay for a signed copy of Hitler's book to display in their home?

“Harlan and Kathy Crow are among our dearest friends, and we have been friends for over twenty-five years. As friends do, we have joined them on a number of family trips during the more than quarter century we have known them,” Clarence Thomas said.

[Quixote1818]

42. That's nuts! nt

[LetMyPeopleVote]

43. TFG and Crow have something in common

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[Quixote1818]

44. My sister is an interior designer in Dallas and has met most of the Crow family

She says they are all nuts.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

46. The amount of Nazi/Hitler memorabilia is amazing

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