Rep. Steve King
Steven (Steve) Arnold KingMother of child in viral meme sends Steve King cease-and-desist for using image in fundraising Nebraska Democratic Party Chair: Rural vote should be 'bedrock' of party With surge in anti-Semitism, political leaders need to be aggressive and reflective in response MORE (R-Iowa) on Wednesday retweeted a prominent far-right British activist who has described himself as a "Nazi sympathizer."
“Europe is waking up...Will America...in time?” King wrote in a quote tweet of Mark Collett, the former chairman of the youth division of the British National Party (BNP).
The original tweet was a screenshot of an article from Breitbart with the caption "65% of Italians under the age of 35 now oppose mass immigration."
Europe is waking up...Will America...in time? https://t.co/GqZ3E1lCyh
— Steve King (@SteveKingIA) June 12, 2018
HuffPost reports that Collett, a well-known far-right activist, has said in the past that he admires Adolf Hitler, and was the subject of a documentary called “Young, Nazi and Proud."
In the documentary, Collett calls AIDS a “friendly disease because blacks, drug users and gays have it,” according to HuffPost.
He also says "Jews have been thrown out of every country" and that it's "not just persecution: there's no smoke without fire."
King did not return a request for comment from HuffPost on Tuesday when asked about the retweet.
King, a staunch conservative, has been supportive of strict immigration reform. Last year, he toasted the deportation of the first "Dreamer" protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
