Johnson Condemns Antisemitic Leaked Chats from Young Republicans and Swastika in Republican Lawmaker's Office

TIME

The messages, obtained by POLITICO, were sent by leaders of various Young Republican National Federation groups—the political organization for Republicans between the ages of 18 and 40. They show that the leaders of those groups praised Adolf Hitler and joked about gas chambers, slavery, and rape.

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00:00News broke this week of racist, Hitler-loving group chat among young Republicans, including a Vermont state senator,

00:07and then an American flag was a swastika was done in a Republican congressman's office this week.

00:12Are you worried about that extremist, pro-Hitler sentiment among the party's young Republicans?

00:18No. Look, obviously we roundly condemn any of that nonsense, and the young Republican or the organization,

00:25whoever that, I don't know if any of these people are, I've never heard of them.

00:28Somebody posted a photo of me standing next to these guys. We're in tuxedos.

00:32Obviously, I think it was at the inauguration, and people were just coming up and asking for selfies with a thousand of them.

00:37I don't know. I've never heard of that person in my life.

00:39But whoever these young people are, and whatever they're saying, if it's true, we obviously condemn that.

00:44And the organizations involved are dealing with that. That's my understanding.

00:48With regard to the swastika thing, this happened last night.

00:51A Republican congressman, allegedly one of his staffers had something in the background or something in a Zoom.

00:56That's what I heard this morning.

00:58He says that that's not his, and there's a proper investigation ongoing, and the congressman did exactly what he should have done,

01:04and that is report it. It's under investigation, and I can't comment on it any further until that's done.

01:09But I will say, obviously, that is not the principles of the Republican Party.

01:13We stand for the founding principles of America.

01:15You want me to articulate them for you right now?

01:17Individual freedom, limited government, the rule of law, peace through strength, fiscal responsibility, free markets, human dignity,

01:22that the things that lead to human flourishing, we have stood against that.

01:27We fought the Nazis.

01:29We defended that evil ideology.

01:31We roundly condemn it, and anybody, in any party who espouses it, we're opposing that.

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