A popular alt-right figure who in a matter of weeks went from posturing as a super militant neo-Nazi who played a hand in organizing the deadly Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville over the summer, to sobbing in tears about having a warrant out for his arrest, has confessed to being an FBI informant.

In a rant that he launched over social media last weekend, Radical Agenda podcast host, Chris Cantwell, expressed feeling like he was betrayed when hacker and fellow neo-Nazi, Andrew Auernheimer spilled the beans about a personal conversation they had during which Cantwell admitted to working with the feds. Apparently, Auernheimer - who is more popularly known on the far right as "Weev" - turned around and revealed what had been told to him by the source himself: that Cantwell is cooperating with the investigation into what went down in and around Emancipation Park last August.

Cantwell defends that he is actually helping authorities in an effort to bring charges against Antifa demonstrators and people from the fringe left by coughing up information. “We are being instructed to behave like criminals by a Jew in a foreign country, as we were assaulted by terrorists in our own! ... The feds are our only hope for a lawful remedy, and I intend to cooperate fully with any effort to bring these criminals to justice,” he is quoted as having written. But many from among his own circles of power are distancing themselves from him over the move. Cantwell is looking past them.

"As for speaking to the FBI, I have hinted at this publicly, but I discussed those details to Weev in confidence ... His plastering our private conversation on a forum should speak to his reputation,” he wrote in a blog posted to his personal website.

Source: thinkprogress.org