President-elect Donald Trump watched the election results roll in accompanied by a far-right German politician who’s been convicted of theft and accused of taking part in pornographic films, the Daily Beast reported Tuesday.
Phillipp-Anders Rau, a candidate for the right-wing German Alternative für Deutschland party, was at Mar-a-Lago on Nov. 5 with several other Germans.
“Being able to shake @realdonaldtrump’s hand as the one and only AfD member there on the day of his victory will be an everlasting memory,” Rau later posted on Instagram.
Rau, who the Beast reported was convicted of stealing from a hotel and who was thrown out of university for doctoring high school transcripts, is a member of the party that his country’s intelligence service deems a “suspected extremist” organization.
Among the policies it’s discussed is mass deportation. Last year, four senior party figures met with neo-Nazis to talk about the policy, the Beast reported.
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The German newspaper Volkstimme has reported that there are online pornographic videos featuring him — which Rau denies.
A German court ruled that “he took part in a professional porn video shoot that was clearly intended for publication.”
He is also in bankruptcy proceedings.
“In this instance, this individual was physically screened and permitted to enter because he was included on a formal invitation,” a United States Secret Service spokesman told the Beast.
Trump’s team and Rau did not respond to the Beast’s requests for comment.