The swastika was discovered within the cubicle of a staffer within the U.S. Capitol workplace of Consultant Dave Taylor, who has known as for an investigation.
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As Republicans are discovering methods to push the Trump agenda via Congress through the authorities shutdown, they’re discovering themselves sidetracked by an annoying and troublesome picture drawback. A few of their younger staffers appear to be obsessive about Nazis — and never in a “Nazis are unhealthy” manner.
The newest problem comes from the workplace of Consultant Dave Taylor of Ohio. On Wednesday, Politico reported that the U.S. Capitol Police had been known as to his workplace as a result of an “American flag altered to incorporate a swastika” was displayed on a cubicle wall behind the seat of legislative aide Angelo Elia, who graduated from school two years in the past.
“The content material of that picture doesn’t mirror the values or requirements of this workplace, my workers, or myself, and I condemn it within the strongest phrases,” Taylor mentioned in an announcement earlier than calling for an investigation into the flag. Elia didn’t reply to Politico’s request for remark, and it stays unclear who pinned the swastika to the cubicle board.
The swastika hidden within the Republican’s workplace comes only a day after Politico reported on a foul Telegram chat by younger GOP operatives, and at the least one state legislator, who often used racial slurs and texted one another statements like “I really like Hitler.”
Already, the fallout from that message has Republicans scrambling to sentence chat members, which embrace the vice-chair of the Kansas Younger Republicans, a number of individuals within the New York State Younger Republicans group, and Samuel Douglass, a state senator in Vermont. The state’s Republican governor, Phil Scot, has known as for Douglass’s resignation. In New York, Consultant Elsie Stefanik — who might problem Governor Kathy Hochul subsequent 12 months — known as the story a “hit piece” on social media, whereas a senior adviser for her marketing campaign known as on these within the chat to resign.
Even Vice-President J.D. Vance weighed in, downplaying the racist and anti-semitic language as “a university group chat,” though its members named by Politico are nicely previous college-aged. He added that anyone who was involved by its many racial slurs and love for Nazis was simply “pearl clutching.”
