Neo-Nazi Blogger Outed In New York As Upper East Sider With Jewish Wife

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — One of the most famous, but heretofore anonymous, internet personalities in the Neo-Nazi sect of the "alt right" blogger movement that championed Donald Trump's presidential run was outed online this week as Michael Peinovich, an Upper East Side software developer with a Jewish wife named Ames Friedman. He's apparently been running his anti-Semitic website, The Right Stuff, and podcast, The Daily Shoah, under the pseudonym Mike Enoch from a red-brick walkup on a skinny, quiet street in the low-key Yorkville section of Manhattan's poshest neighborhood.

The outing campaign has also gone IRL. A flyer spotted Thursday morning on Peinovich's street, East 82nd near York Avenue, reads: "Say hi to your Neo-Nazi neighbor, Mike Peinovich!"

Photos of Peinovich on the flyer put a chubby, red face to the gravelly voice that rants against the liberal Jewish establishment for thousands of listeners each day on The Daily Shoah. His wife is also pictured. And along the bottom of the flyer, someone printed his address, his contact info and the name of his former employer, Vook. (The publishing company, now called Pronoun, did not respond to a request for comment.)

The Right Stuff was founded by Peinovich in 2012. Its various bloggers and podcasters revel in Holocaust jokes, conspiracies about Jewish power and fantasies about building an all-white utopia.

The site is perhaps best known for inventing the (((echo))) — a method of instantly identifying Jews by enclosing their names in parenthesis, yellow star style — and the term "cuckservative," to describe more mainstream Republicans seen as impotent.

Since his big outing, Peinovich has admitted his wife is indeed Jewish, and has agreed to stop contributing to The Right Stuff.

“Yes my wife is who they say she is, I won’t even bother denying it, I won’t bother making excuses,” he wrote to his fans on a private forum. “If this makes you want to leave the movement, or to have nothing to do with TRS, then I understand. Don’t lie for me. Don’t try to defend me to those attacking me. Don’t jeopardize your own reputation by defending things that you don’t think you can.”

He did stick around long enough to co-host Thursday's episode of The Daily Shoah, though.

Peinovich said on the show that he was "in a bad spot" and that his "life is in wreckage." He implied that he'd lost his job as a software developer, saying: "I don't have any income."

In an email sent to Patch, though, Peinovich said no one has taken the initiative to harass him at his East 82nd Street home on the Upper East Side.

His apartment rents for approximately $5,000, according to Zillow.

"I'm not aware of him," a rep for his building's management company said Thursday. (We left a voicemail with the building manager, and will update this post if we hear back.)

Doxxing — or releasing someone's personal info online — is a revenge tactic popular with the alt right. In past doxxes, in-on-the-joke internet trolls have used the info to falsely report a crime at a victim's home, sending a swarm of cops to his or her front door.

Ironically, in Peinovich's case, the doxxers were other white-power folks from a competing Neo-Nazi forum on the 8chan website, who felt The Right Stuff was "hurting white nationalism" by "watering it down." (Specifically, by suggesting America's alt right could have something to gain from aligning with Israel's far-right fascist movement, Jewish as it may be.)

We asked Peinovich what his wife Ames and his Upper East Side neighbors think of his repertoire. He didn't respond.

However, Ames guest-starred on The Daily Shoah in 2015 to recite a Neo-Nazi parody of “The Night Before Christmas.” Peinovich said on the show she was "very proud of it."

For Thursday's episode, Peinovich's co-host read sympathy notes from listeners who've been donating funds to Peinovich's next endeavor, the details of which he has yet to reveal.

"Tell Mike to hang in there," one said.

"Mike is my favorite digital philosopher," another said. "He's an edgy guardian, a fasci-protector, a dank knight."

And another: "Mike, I have a couch you can crash on."

One note came from a truck driver who donated $5.

"My heart goes out to his wife," the note said. "If the rumors I've heard are true, and this isn't a huge troll, I imagine she's getting a huge amount of sh*t from her family and the larger community. If she's married to Mike, she must be a good individual. Maybe she could consider talking to Brother Nathaniel [one of the podcast's personalities] about conversion."

Peinovich responded: "That was a really nice thing to say, and I appreciate that. I think she would appreciate that, too."

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