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WHCD shooting suspect Cole Allen’s toxic Blue Sky history shows China’s dangerous hold on our social media

Cole Allen, the latest alleged wannabe Trump assassin, was an enthusiastic user of the rancid left-wing echo chamber known as the social media platform Blue Sky. 

A breakdown of Cole’s most-liked accounts over the past month, before he tried to kill Trump at the Washington Hilton Saturday night, shows a classic grab bag of Trump-haters and liberal activists, with lefty Trump-deranged lawyer Will Stancil at the top, boasting 28 likes.

But a curious account in the middle of the radical left soup, coming in at number 12 with seven likes, is a little-known China apologist, James Palmer, the deputy editor of Foreign Policy, who uses the handle “beijingpalmer.”

Palmer writes on absurd topics, such as “More hope for gay rights in China than the US,” and once asked his Asian-American followers to contact him if they “have been through the US security........

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