aback” by the activists’ criticism.

The reported attendees share long histories of publicly stoking fears about undocumented immigrants and the “creeping” spread of Sharia law in the United States. Several discuss these issues openly in high-octane social media posts.

Hair is particularly vocal on Facebook and Twitter, where she alternates between sharing Bible verses, posts praising Trump, and articles from obscure news sites. “Leftist Jew Hatred Comes To America,” read one recent headline shared by Hair from a site called American Greatness.

A Jan. 9 Facebook post sharing an article about Trump banning transgender people from military service is captioned “Yay!” Recent tweets include include a retweeted comment about the 2017 mass shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas being covered up, and an article suggesting that women couldas chief of staff for Gohmert, a member of the far-right House Freedom Caucus and one of the most conservative members of Congress.

Frank Gaffney is perhaps the best known of the meeting attendees named by the Times. Gaffney founded the Center for Security Policy think tank in 1988, which he uses as a vehicle to spread conspiracy theories about the threat Islam poses to America.

Gaffney has falsely claimed that President Barack Obama is a secret Muslim and that Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin was a secret agent of the Muslim Brotherhood. Though he was once considered on the fringe and banned from the Conservative Political Action Conference for baselessly accusing members of CPAC’s board of assisting the Muslim Brotherhood, Gaffney was welcomed into the fold of the modern