JTA — Following an appearance on the right-wing network Newsmax in 2023, economist E.J. Antoni revealed the identity of the warship he frequently uses as his background art for TV interviews. “Bismarck,” Antoni replied on X — referring to the massive Nazi battleship whose launch was attended and celebrated by Adolf Hitler. On another occasion, he wrote to a follower that the Bismarck was “hard not to love.” It was one of several times that Antoni, US President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Bureau of Labor Statistics, has expressed an affinity for Nazi-related imagery and history. He has also...
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