For the third time in less than a year, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) has promoted an open white nationalist on Twitter. On Friday, the congressman quote-tweeted Faith Goldy, a Canadian white nationalist who has publicly recited the “14 words,” a white supremacist mantra, and who once recommended a book that calls for the “elimination of Jews.” Goldy also once appeared on a podcast produced by The Daily Stormer, a neo-Nazi website which advocates for gassing Jews. In that podcast, Goldy praised white supremacist figurehead Richard Spencer. King is well aware of who Goldy is. In October, he endorsed Goldy in her longshot run for mayor of Toronto. The endorsement led to widespread condemnation of the congressman. But at 10:51 p.m. Friday, the congressman promoted Goldy on Twitter anyway.

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In his tweet, King claimed that “criminal aliens represented an average of 1/4 of the federal prison population” and that “there would have to be 82 million illegals in America before they would be committing an equal proportion of crimes.” He then linked to a tweet by Goldy in which she lashes out at Matt Schlapp, head of the American Conservative Union, for not challenging commentator Van Jones during a panel at the Conservative Political Action Conference over Jones’ accurate claim that “undocumented immigrants right now have a lower crime rate than the rest of us.” “The funniest part is that Matt Schlapp, CHAIRMAN OF THE ACU, just sat right next to Van Jones and didn’t challenge this bullsh*t talking point,” Goldy tweeted. “These people are so out of touch with the base.”

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