He received his first splash of internet fame after he went on an antisemitic rant on his show, which concluded with The Chicago-Tribune covered the situation, where Nick Fuentes espoused anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant views, along with defending white pride and the Boston situation: Through dedicated anti-fascist research, Nick Fuentes was outed as an attendee of Unite The Right, the deadly white supremacist rally that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia, at which point he was promptly run out of Boston University. (Also, we heard that he supported Ted Cruz back then, and that’s pretty funny, too.)Īfter completing Lyons Township High School, his views became more and more extreme. The Nicholas J Fuentes Show, as it was called, allowed him to spout milquetoast neoconservative talking points from a teenager who seemed determined to act as much like a boomer as he physically could.
He was even given some airtime on LTTV, the high school TV station.
As a senior, he was elected class president. When he wasn’t busy picking on his queer and Jewish classmates ( alongside previously identified fellow asshole and later member of Patriot Front and the Chicago Proud Boys, Nick John Stiso, now a Westchester Taco Bell employee) he was an active member of Model UN and Speech Club. Gosar admitted the family snub did "sting," but brushed it aside to keep boosting his reputation as among Trump's fiercest allies on Capitol Hill.Our buddy Nick Fuentes had a humble start as a student of Lyons Township High School. His views were seen as so caustic that six of his nine siblings memorably taped a campaign ad for the Democrat challenging him in 2018. Gosar famously intimated in a 2017 Vice News interview that billionaire liberal donor George Soros may have been a Nazi collaborator as a youth and was the only member to skip an address to Congress by Pope Francis in 2015.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said Republicans could not sink to "nativist dog whistles." The caucus allegedly aimed to carry on Trump's agenda, adhere to an Anglo-Saxon history in government and architecture and require immigrants to be able to contribute economically. Both members quickly distanced themselves from it after Republican leadership pushed back on a document purporting to spell out the caucus' priorities. Two months after his appearance at AFPAC, Gosar reportedly was linked to the planned formation of an "America First Caucus" with Rep. Gosar, who is in his sixth term, most of it representing Arizona's most conservative-leaning district, has long held forth as one of the most controversial members of Congress. The scheduled date for the fundraiser, apparently for Gosar's congressional campaign committee, will be announced on Thursday. The Daily Beast has quoted Fuentes as saying: "White people are done being bullied" and praised the deadly Jan. Steve King, R-Iowa, whose political career ended after Republicans stripped him of committee duties after he questioned why "white supremacist" was considered an offensive term. It put him alongside other far-right provocateurs, such as former Rep. Gosar's presence at AFPAC was the first by a sitting member of Congress. Ignore the left."Įarlier this year, Gosar skipped a vote on a COVID-19 relief bill to attend Fuentes' America First Political Action Committee, a far-right conference that took place ahead of the traditional Conservative Political Action Conference that had come to be seen by some Republicans as lacking sufficient passion for former President Donald Trump and his policies. We will not let the left dictate our strategy, alliances and efforts. I’ll say this: there are millions of Gen Z, Y and X conservatives. In a tweet Monday night, Gosar seemed to respond to his critics, saying, "Not sure why anyone is freaking out. Gosar's chief of staff could not be immediately reached to comment Monday night about the latest controversy involving Gosar. The post came from an account said to have ties to Fuentes.
Paul Gosar is planning a fundraising event with a white nationalist who has been banned from YouTube for repeatedly violating rules against hate speech.Ī post on the conservative social media platform Telegram may have teased a fundraiser with Gosar, R-Ariz., and Nick Fuentes, who attended the deadly 2017 Charlottesville rally. In an unsubtle rebuke to his many critics, Rep.