{"id":87854,"date":"2026-07-07T00:29:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T06:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=87854"},"modified":"2026-07-07T00:29:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T06:29:29","slug":"villains-of-judea-armand-hammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/07\/villains-of-judea-armand-hammer\/","title":{"rendered":"Villains of Judea: Armand Hammer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lenin’s favorite capitalist and the great grandfather Hollywood forgot.<\/h2>\n

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Armie Hammer spent the summer of 2026 back in the headlines, and not gently. His comeback vehicle,\u00a0Citizen Vigilante<\/a>, a low-budget thriller written and directed by the\u00a0pro-Israel<\/a>\u00a0German provocateur Uwe Boll, reached theaters and digital platforms on June 19 and immediately drew fire. Hammer plays Sanders, a wealthy American in Zagreb who guns down criminals, rapists, and the judges he believes let them walk, most of them written as Muslim migrants.<\/span><\/h2>\n

German regulators refused to rate the picture, effectively\u00a0banning<\/a>\u00a0it over fears it incites violence against immigrants. Elon Musk then posted the entire film to X for free, and right wing figures rallied to it. Hammer, who lost his career after 2021 sexual misconduct allegations that Los Angeles prosecutors declined to charge, told\u00a0The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/em>, \u201cI\u2019m pretty sure I cried,\u201d adding, \u201cI just wanted to work again.\u201d He has always denied the accusations, insisting, \u201cI didn\u2019t do what people are saying I did.\u201d<\/span><\/h2>\n

Yet the frenzy over one actor obscures a far stranger Hammer story. Armie\u2019s great grandfather, Armand Hammer, spent nearly a century turning intrigue into a business model, and almost every chapter of his life arrived wrapped in some type of scandal.<\/span><\/h2>\n

Armand Hammer was\u00a0born<\/a>\u00a0in New York City on May 21, 1898, to Julius and Rose Hammer, Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire. An urban legend held that his father named him for a character in an Alexandre Dumas novel, but Hammer admitted the truth ran the other way. Julius, a committed socialist,\u00a0named<\/a>\u00a0his son after the arm and hammer emblem of the Socialist Labor Party. The accidental echo of the Arm and Hammer baking soda brand, a logo that predated his birth by three decades, dogged him for life, and in 1986 he simply\u00a0bought<\/a>\u00a0a large block of the parent company\u2019s stock and took a board seat so he could stop explaining. He earned a medical degree from Columbia but barely practiced, funding his first fortune instead with a\u00a0high-alcohol<\/a>\u00a0ginger extract that sold like hot cakes throughout Prohibition.<\/span><\/h2>\n

His politics were inherited. Julius Hammer\u00a0reportedly met Vladimir Lenin in 1907<\/a>, helped launch the Communist Party USA, and ran finances for an unrecognized Soviet bureau in New York. That radical household pointed Armand east, and it also produced the family\u2019s first courtroom drama. In 1919 a woman died after an illegal abortion in the family clinic, and Julius, a licensed physician,\u00a0went to Sing Sing for manslaughter<\/a>. Biographer Edward Jay Epstein, along with Hammer\u2019s own former mistress, later\u00a0alleged<\/a>\u00a0that Armand, then a medical student, actually performed the procedure and let his father shoulder the blame because a credentialed doctor stood a better chance of acquittal, though most historians hold that Julius himself performed it.<\/span><\/h2>\n

RTWT @ Unz<\/a><\/h2>\n

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\"Citizen<\/p>\n

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Lenin’s favorite capitalist and the great grandfather Hollywood forgot.   Armie Hammer spent the summer of 2026 back in the headlines, and not gently. His comeback vehicle,\u00a0Citizen Vigilante, a low-budget thriller written and directed by the\u00a0pro-Israel\u00a0German provocateur Uwe Boll, reached theaters and digital platforms on June 19 and immediately drew fire. Hammer plays Sanders, a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[475,478,479,3176,5176,5971,17107,18982,10173,19122],"tags":[19355,19354,19352,19353,17338,17195],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87855,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87854\/revisions\/87855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}