Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) on Wednesday retweeted a prominent far-right British activist who has described himself as a “Nazi sympathizer.”
“Europe is waking up…Will America…in time?” King wrote in a quote tweet of Mark Collett, the former chairman of the youth division of the British National Party (BNP).
The original tweet was a screenshot of an article from Breitbart with the caption “65% of Italians under the age of 35 now oppose mass immigration.”
HuffPost reports that Collett, a well-known far-right activist, has said in the past that he admires Adolf Hitler, and was the subject of a documentary called “Young, Nazi and Proud.” {mosads}
In the documentary, Collett calls AIDS a “friendly disease because blacks, drug users and gays have it,” according to HuffPost.
He also says “Jews have been thrown out of every country” and that it’s “not just persecution: there’s no smoke without fire.”
King did not return a request for comment from HuffPost on Tuesday when asked about the retweet.
King, a staunch conservative, has been supportive of strict immigration reform. Last year, he toasted the deportation of the first “Dreamer” protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.