In our last installment we wrote about the neo-Nazi White Art Collective musician Jamie Ryan Troutman, aka "James Ryan," aka "AltRightVa." Today we present his equally obnoxious brother Brandon Troutman, a white nationalist "rapper" who also has an association with the White Art Collective (also known as "WAC"), who is a vicious Nazi propagandist, antisemite, racist, and world class creep.
Let's for a moment ignore the irony of there being a white nationalist rapper, because that's what this guy claims to be, going by the aliases "ManWithTheHand," "ChuckMillerWAC," "MicCheckRap" and "SkullCrabb." Shortly after the release of our exposé of Benjamin Arvin, aka "Jeff Winston," founder of the White Art Collective, the Twitter account "@ChuckMillerWAC" deactivated. The account shared a permanent Twitter ID # with Brandon Troutman's ManWiththeHand account, meaning those two screen names were actually of the same account. The account reactivated shortly thereafter under the name "@SkullCrabb," but they blocked us. We love it when we're blocked on Twitter because it means the blocker has something to hide.
The wealthy Troutman family owns Troutman Custom Homes, a luxury building company in Arlington, Virginia. How wealthy? In this 2017 discord post Brandon Troutman proposed using his father’s private airplane to fly a banner over Charlottesville during the violent Unite the Right white nationalist rally.
Brandon Troutman and his older brother Jamie were a persistent and pernicious presence in the alt-right/neo-Nazi protest circuit, appearing at numerous events alongside white nationalist notables like Richard Spencer and neo-Nazi groups like Identity Evropa and Vanguard America (who later rebranded as "Patriot Front").
In 2017 Charlottesville, Virginia suffered through a number of white nationalist rallies. The first of them, the "Unite the Right 1.0" rally in May of that year, was a small, intimate affair and was invitation only. Attendees were all active members of the "movement." The Troutmans were totally obnoxious that day. Following this first rally, white nationalists began preparing for the ill-fated "Unite the Right 2.0" in August of that year. Brandon Troutman was very active in the online neo-Nazi chats for the planning of this event, playing key roles in the logistics and with creating propaganda. These online chats were subsequently leaked and were made available for examination by Unicorn Riot.
In the leaked planning chats event organizer Jason Kessler (writing as "MadDimension") discussed the issue of bringing firearms to the event with Brandon Troutman and another participant Brandon Higgs (writing as "Americana-MD"). Kessler urged attendees to only "conceal carry" guns to the rally. Troutman and Higgs expressed a desire to shoot counter-protestors. Higgs would later fulfill his urge for racially-motivated violence by shooting a black man in 2018. He is now serving a twenty-five year sentence for this crime.
Brandon Troutman wrote in the leaked Discord chats that he believed that "fighting in the streets" will decide "the future of America." This explicit advocacy for violence was followed by discussion as to how to "recruit" more people to their "team."
After the violent 2017 "Unite the Right" event, Brandon Troutman returned to Charlottesville the next year for the poorly attended "Unite the Right 3.0." This event was so dismal that the normally shameless founder of the original event Jason Kessler was too embarrassed to attend.
Brandon Troutman co-hosted a short-lived podcast called "Beard 'Merica" alongside White Art Collective founder Benjamin Arvin (aka "HuWhiteLion" and "Jeff Winston"). Troutman was a big booster of the WAC and collaborated with Arvin frequently doing audio stuff for the WAC. Arvin described Brandon Troutman as his "right hand man in the studio."
At the time of the "Unite the Right" rallies Brandon Troutman was an aspiring rapper and music producer, going by the moniker "Mic Check," claiming to have his own recording studio. As "Mic Check," Brandon Troutman boasted of being a "rapper from Northern VA with a technical style that's not afraid to use it." To show off his "mad lyrical skills" some of his videos on YouTube feature his "rhymes so sick that they gave you HIV," like "You say you a thung but you as hood as some foreskin" and "There's layers to my shit cause I only eat lasagna." Clearly, Brandon Troutman is more of a crapper than a rapper.
Music runs in the Troutman family and it looks like fascism does also. Brandon Troutman, along with his brother Jamie Troutman, are a couple of the most despicable racists and bigots around. And like his brother, there is so much about Brandon Troutman's white supremacist activities already out there that he should seriously be reconsidering his life choices.
That concludes Part 4 of our exposé of the neo-Nazis at the White Art Collective. Be sure to check out the first three installments if you haven't already:
- Benjamin Arvin, aka "Jeff Winston" and Mandi Gillespie, aka "Hiraeth"
- Jessica LaFlamme, aka "J. LaDArc"
- Jamie Troutman, aka "James Ryan" and "AltRightVa"
So who is up next? Stay tuned to find out!
