R&I – FS
Idaho Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin spoke virtually at an event organized by White nationalist Nick Fuentes in Florida at the end of February.
Her participation in that event — which also featured the likes of Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Paul Gosar of Arizona — was the subject of an interview she did with a local reporter named Brian Holmes, who works for a Boise TV station.
This exchange between the two is remarkable:
Holmes: Are you familiar with who puts this event on, like Nick Fuentes?
McGeachin: I don’t know who he is. I’ve never met him. I don’t know who he is.
Holmes: Did you not look into it before you decided to say, ‘Ok’? Like to find out — his name is on it.
McGeachin: Well, you know what, Nick Fuentes, as I said, I don’t know him. He’s never — I’ve never met him. I don’t know … everything that he says or doesn’t say does not reflect on who I am or who the thousands of others that are participating in this movement.
Holmes: You didn’t bother to look up his name or anything?
McGeachin: I didn’t say that.
Holmes: You did look him up?
McGeachin: That’s not the question that you asked me.
Holmes: Did you look up who Nick Fuentes was and what he’s talked about? Like, things he has said?
McGeachin: I have since. … The mainstream media — you do this to conservatives all the time, but you don’t do it to yourself. That every time — any time there’s any kind of affiliation with anybody at any time on any stage, that we are all guilty by association. And it’s not appropriate.
(You can watch the full exchange here.)
McGeachin is challenging Idaho Gov. Brad Little in the Republican primary this year with the backing of former President Donald Trump.
Just Think
Article URL : https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/17/politics/janice-mcgeachin-idaho-white-nationalist-event/index.html