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German Climate change skeptic Naomi Seibt – who is there Presented as “anti-Greta” to express ideas that are diametrically opposed Greta Thunberg – He has applied for political asylum in the US, claiming he is being denied protection from persecution in his homeland.
Speaking to Fox News Digital On Tuesday, Seibt, 25, said he is currently in the US legally and has filed a petition under Section 208 of the Immigration and Nationality Act to secure permanent residence in the interest of his safety.
“I have now applied for asylum, which means I’m waiting for an interview. And, in the meantime, I’m here legally,” she said. “In the meantime my goal is to become an American citizen in the future because this country has given me so much hope.”
be called a tech billionaire Elon Musk He is supporting her asylum appeal after reaching out to her on his Platform X following her decision to vote for the far-right Alternative für Deutschland party.
“I made a post during the European elections in June 2024 where I said, ‘My name is Naomi Seibt, and I’m voting for the AfD,’ and that was the first time that Musk interacted with me — Elon messaged me privately on X about the AfD,” she said.
“Over the course of the last year, I obviously got a lot of retweets by Elon Musk, and I’ve had conversations with him personally in private messages about what’s going on. Germany,
Discussing the political climate in Europe, Seibt told Fox: “It is illegal in Germany to damage the reputation of a politician. This law was extended under Angela MerkelArticle 188, and now people are being arrested. And their houses are being raided only because of social media posts. As soon as I come back to Germany, I think they will try to arrest me.”
He claimed, “In 2024 I learned that German intelligence had been spying on me for years. Additionally, I continue to receive death threats from Antifa.”
“I went to the German police, and they told me they couldn’t do anything about it unless I was actually raped or murdered. I’m not getting protection from the German government, even though I’m in great danger of potentially being killed.”
Asked about being regularly compared to Thunberg, 22, Seibt said: “I became known and recognized internationally as the anti-Greta Thunberg in 2020.
“I was barely 19 years old and I never expected that I would be recognized as a right-wing person. The German media called me anti-Greta, they vilified me as ‘anti-Greta,’ like an antichrist for Greta Thunberg.
“I’m Naomi Seibt and I want to be known for who I am, because I’m not just some puppet poster figure for the right wing.”
Seibt’s mother, from Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, is reportedly a lawyer who has represented the AfD. Activist – who prefers the term “climate realist” to “climate denier”, which she argues invokes Holocaust denialism. She first made headlines as a high school student in her homeland when she wrote a nationalist poem, “Sometimes I Remain Silent”, which was published on a right-wing blog.
Later he gained a large number of followers on social media by uploading videos. youtubeStarting in May 2019, with titles like “Climate change – Just hot air?”, “Fierce without feminism”, and “Message to the media – how dare you?”.
She was first compared to Thunberg Suddeutsche Zeitung newspaper after giving a star-making speech at the European Institute for Climate and Energy’s international climate and energy conference in November.
Seibt was later appointed by The Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based American think-tank that has previously lobbied on behalf of tobacco companies, supports fracking and rejected the scientific consensus on climate change, to be the face of their climate denial campaign.
The association saw him speaking at events such as the Heartland’s International Conference on Climate Change at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas in the fall of 2021, which the association was named for. “Anti-COP26.”
In addition to attacking climate “alarmism”, the YouTuber has been accused of engaging in anti-Semitism, white nationalism and propaganda. COVID-19 Misinformation during the pandemic. This has been promoted before QAnon conspiracy theory.
Should she become a U.S. citizen, Seibt would find her positions on the environment aligning neatly with those of the Trump administration, which the president himself has routinely rejected global warming as a “scam” and “fraud”, and supporting a return to fossil fuel exploitation over investment in alternative renewable energy sources.