CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski: “Now, we asked the campaign a number of questions. We asked, does Scheer have a role in Collins’ campaign? […] Has he worked for Collins’ company as an employee, contractor, or any capacity? And they didn’t answer any of those questions.”
Atlanta, Ga. — On the heels of troubling new reporting about his close ties to white nationalism and neo-Nazi propaganda, CNN revealed a new development that GOP U.S. Senate candidate Mike Collins is refusing to say whether he ever paid neo-Nazi propagandist David Alan Scheer, and whether Scheer has an ongoing role in Collins’ campaign for U.S. Senate. Scheer has been featured on Collins’ campaign website and social media.
In an exclusive interview with Erin Burnett, CNN KFILE’s Andrew Kaczynski, who broke the story, clarified that he “asked the campaign a number of questions” regarding Scheer’s involvement in the campaign and whether Collins ever paid Scheer for work as an employee, contractor, or in any other capacity. Kaczynski emphasized that Collins and his campaign “didn’t answer any of those questions.”
Sen. Ossoff’s opponent Mike Collins continues to face a slew of scandals involving his blatant bigotry, antisemitism, and corruption, including an active federal investigation into the illegal misuse of tax dollars, renewed scrutiny over Collins’ office’s ties to prominent white supremacists and efforts to free a Holocaust denier from jail, as well as outrage over his antisemitic harassment of a Jewish reporter and praise for a young man who harassed a Black woman by making monkey sounds.
“…He appears in campaign photographs posted on Collins’ campaign website and social media. He attended Collins’ Senate night primary victory party, and […] he’s been registered since 2024 at a Collins-owned house adjacent to the congressman’s estate in Georgia. We also identified several videos that appear to have been filmed on or near Collins’ property, and Scheer also appears to have narrated promotional videos for Collins’ trucking company. We found one social media post filmed in front of trucks where he said he was making videos for a ‘client.’ Now we asked the campaign a number of questions. We asked, does Scheer have a role in Collins’ campaign? Has he filmed his content on Collins’ property? Has he worked for Collins’ company as an employee, contractor, or any capacity? And they didn’t answer any of those questions. […] They didn’t address any of the white nationalist remarks or the antisemitic infographic when we asked about it,” said Kaczynski.
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