MTG Hired & Paid $55K To Staffer For Nazi Nick Fuentes

The SPLC’s Hatewatch reports:

A web and graphics designer who collaborated with white nationalist Nick Fuentes worked for pro-Donald Trump lawmaker Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., throughout 2022 and into 2023, a Hatewatch investigation found.

Lance W. Smith, 23, of Melissa, Texas, purchased or managed multiple web domains associated with Fuentes and his “America First” movement, livestreams on Fuentes’ website Cozy.tv under the pseudonym “UX,” and owns a gaming server for Fuentes fans.

While associating himself with Fuentes’ wing of the white nationalist movement, Smith received $55,020 from Greene’s congressional campaign between June 24, 2022, and May 1, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records reviewed by Hatewatch.

On one page of his online portfolio, Smith said he “oversaw production of the representative’s podcast and managed the creative direction of her campaign.”

FEC records indicate that Smith began working for Greene’s congressional campaign as a consultant in summer 2022, several months after Greene addressed white nationalists and other far-right extremists at Fuentes’ America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC).

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