For the second straight year, an Orlando hotel hosted a secret white nationalist conference as CPAC went on nearby, and this year Republican U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was the special guest.
Greene then appeared Saturday at the Conservative Political Action Conference in a panel discussion entitled “They Can’t Shut Us Up!”
Speakers at his event this year praised “Western white culture” and called for White House advisor Anthony Fauci to be hanged, HuffPost reported. Attendees also chanted, “Putin! Putin!” and cheered the Russian invasion of Ukraine, said Ben Lober, a research analyst at Political Research Associates who watched a live stream of the event.
Fuentes praised the crowd as “our secret sauce … young white men,” Lober wrote on Twitter.
“[They say] Vladimir Putin is Hitler and they say that’s not a good thing,” Fuentes said, according to a video of the event. “I shouldn’t have said that,” he added, smiling, to laughter.