Why Was the Chief of Staff for a Leading Republican Senate Candidate on a Group Chat With Famous White Nationalists? The Answer Somehow Makes It Even Worse.

The answer somehow makes it even worse.

May 28, 202612:41 PM

Clockwise from upper left: Chuck Johnson, Nick Fuentes, Kip Talley (chief of staff to Rep. Mike Collins, a GOP Senate candidate), and Richard Spencer.

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The chief of staff for Rep. Mike Collins, the front-runner to be Republicans’ Senate nominee in Georgia, said he used his congressional position to attempt to free a Holocaust denier from prison.