GOP rep invited alt right activist to the State of the Union
Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz (Fla.) invited an activist affiliated with the white supremacist "alt right" who has denied the Holocaust to President Trump's State of the Union address on Tuesday, the Daily Beast reported Wednesday.
Gaetz said that he invited Chuck Johnson the address when he "showed up at my office" on Tuesday, according to the Daily Beast report. The congressman, who has risen in prominence amid a Republican push to release a GOP House Intelligence memo on alleged surveillance abuses, said he did not have a pre-existing relationship with Johnson, saying that only had an extra ticket because his father came down with bronchitis.
Johnson gave a different explanation for his appearance at the congressional address, saying that while he received invitations from several members of Congress, he accepted Gaetz's invitation because "he's into stuff on the issues that I care about," including the bitcoin cryptocurrency and marijuana.
Johnson runs a crowdfunding site that has raised tens of thousands of dollars for the legal fees related to the white supremacist website the Daily Stormer, as well as other various figures in the alt-right movement.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/371644-gop-rep-invited-alt-right-troll-to-the-state-of-the-union
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