Photo by M. Scott Mahaskey/POLITICO White nationalist leader kicked out of CPAC On his way out, Richard Spencer rebuked Milo Yiannopoulos, who was disinvited from the event earlier this week.

Richard Spencer, a leader of the white nationalist movement, said he was “glad” that disgraced Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos was disinvited from the Conservative Political Action Conference after he made controversial statements on pedophilia, while leaving the conservative conference Thursday after his own credentials had been revoked.

"I totally reject Milo and I’m glad that he was disinvited," Spencer said about Yiannopoulos, who resigned from Breitbart this week after remarks surfaced in which he praised pedophilia. The right-wing journalist was slated to be keynote speaker at CPAC but was disinvited earlier this week because of the controversy.


"I was willing to tolerate him or maybe be ambivalent about him but after his video clips, there’s no way that I could support Milo in any way."

Yiannopoulos, who has stirred up controversy in recent weeks with his appearances on college campuses, resigned from Breitbart and lost a major book deal after tapes emerged on which he advocated sexual relationships between "younger boys and older men."

In his resignation statement, Yiannopoulos said he believed the tapes were selectively edited.

"To repeat: I do not support child abuse," Yiannopoulos said at a news conference. "I am sorry to other abuse victims who may have interpreted my statements as flippant."

Spencer, who purchased his own tickets to CPAC, was ejected after a CPAC staffer spotted him and revoked his credentials. Defiant, Spencer flashed his empty lanyard to reporters as he left the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center just outside D.C., where the conservative confab is taking place over the next few days.

"They threw me out, it's pathetic," he said on his way out, saying that he wanted to have conversations inside on identity politics.

“I guess that they just discovered who I was, because the truth is that people want to talk to me, not to other conservatives.”

A CPAC spokesperson told NBC that the group ejected Spencer because it finds his views “repugnant.”

American Conservative Union Chairman Matt Schlapp told POLITICO that it was the group's right to revoke Spencer's credentials. “You are welcome to come down here, we will have civil conservation about things we disagree with but there are boundaries, one of those boundaries is having respect for people, people’s heritage, people’s race, and the alt-right is not a voice in the conservative movement," Schlapp said.

But Spencer fired back: "CPAC cannot host a speech where they denounce the alt-right by name and then expect me not to come. They're children. I mean, look, adults will engage in dialogue particularly when you're going to denounce someone. They're not even engaging in dialogue."

Spencer, who is the president of the National Policy Institute, a white nationalist think tank, was unsparing in his criticism of Yiannopoulos, who is also considered an alt-right activist.

“He glorified and excused the sexual abuse of other people,” Spencer said. “That is absolutely out of bounds."

Yiannopoulos brushed off Spencer's criticisms. "Richard Spencer knows that for the rest of his life his best shot at getting attention is to talk about me," Yiannopoulos told POLITICO. "I don't begrudge him the scraps he craves."

