HATE WATCH | MAY 4, 2025

Claire Headley Renames “Aftermath” Hate Group After Lying Wife Beater Who Embodies Its Moral Bankruptcy

On February 19, Claire Headley took to social media to announce she had renamed the “Aftermath” hate group after the late Mike Rinder.

Names matter. And, naturally, Claire Headley picked the name of the most corrupt, dishonest, abusive person she could find to represent her ideals as leader of her bigoted hate group.

In other words, “Aftermath” will, in perpetuity, be known for the values Mike Rinder espoused.

What are those values?

Let’s blow up the fine print.

Mike Rinder shoved one female colleague under a desk, threw a woman against a wall and broke another woman’s tooth by slamming a clipboard into the side of her head—all before permanently disabling his own wife.

If you want to support the “Michael J. Rinder Aftermath” group, you now must support:

The abandonment of your entire family, including your children (especially if one of them is battling life-threatening cancer). As Mike Rinder admitted on national television: “I left…. I walked away from my family, knowing I was walking away from my family.”

Victim-shaming and rapist championing. As Mike Rinder said, rapist Paul Haggis’ victims were “not credible” and “very suspect.” The rapist Haggis, on the other hand, was “truly a gentleman. A gentle man, with impeccable manners and a generous heart.” (That was before a unanimous jury found Rinder’s “gentleman” liable of raping the young woman Rinder had shamed.)
Nazi-era rhetoric and bigotry. As Mike Rinder said, members of the religious group to which his children belong are “like cornered rats … menacing, antagonistic and rabid vermin” who will ultimately “be wiped out entirely.”
Wife beating and abuse of women. Mike Rinder shoved one female colleague under a desk, threw a woman against a wall and broke another woman’s tooth by slamming a clipboard into the side of her head—all before permanently disabling his own wife. As his wife’s surgeon said of the brutal injury Rinder inflicted: “It’s a permanent disability that will always be there with her.”

An MRI of Mike Rinder’s wife after Rinder’s assault, noting the separation at her shoulder
The utter absence of morality (and pride in that absence). Mike Rinder remorselessly proclaimed he was a “destructive,” “untrustworthy” and “psychotic” person with a “totally criminal moral code.”

A handwritten confession from Mike Rinder
Chronic lying. As Mike Rinder said, he had “decades of experience” lying—including “lying about lying”—and “I can’t convince you one way or the other whether I am lying now or then or both.” When asked under oath if he could provide any estimate of the number of times he had lied, Rinder responded: “No, I can’t.”

With her announcement, Aftermath leader Claire Headley has just validated everything we have ever said about her and her hate group: The best embodiment of their values is a wife-beating, woman-abusing, hate-spewing, victim-shaming, rapist-championing, family-abandoning, self-confessed psychotic, criminal and serial liar.

When someone tells you who they are, believe them.

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