When a constituent who posed for a photo with Rep. Duncan Hunter was later found to have white supremacist ties, a Hunter staffer dismissed him as “a stranger in a parade who wanted to be in a picture” with the Republican congressman.

The photo showed Hunter at a July Fourth parade in his Southern California district, standing beside Kris Wyrick, who flashes an “OK” gesture — a sign appropriated by extremists in recent years to mean “WP” or “white power.”

Hunter deleted the photo, which had been posted on his official Facebook and Twitter pages, after questions from CQ Roll Call on Wyrick’s history of making bigoted statements.

But it turned out Wyrick may not be the “stranger” Hunter’s team made him out to be.

“I know him personally. And I know his family personally. And he’s a great man,” Wyrick is seen saying of Hunter in a 2017 video he posted to his YouTube page.