Nick Fuentes was on TSA’s dreaded No Fly List for allegedly 'threatening a flight attendant': report

24 February 2023

Nick Fuentes, the 24-year-old Holocaust denier who has promoted his America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC) as a white nationalist alternative to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), has been claiming that he was placed on the Transportation Security Administration’s dreaded No Fly List because of his political views. But according to Daily Beast reporter Jake Lahut, the TSA took that action because Fuentes allegedly threatened a flight attendant.

In an article published on February 24, Lahut reports that "documents obtained by The Daily Beast show" that Fuentes, in 2021, "misled his supporters over why he was banned from flying on commercial airlines."

"The real story of how Fuentes ended up on the No Fly List wasn't because of his far-right and antisemitic beliefs, nor his refusal to comply with any masking rules at the time," Lahut explains. "Instead, the podcaster who dined with Donald Trump and Kanye West at Mar-a-Lago just before Thanksgiving last year stepped on a rake when he sued the TSA; America’s most loathed security agency had the receipts. In court documents, first mentioned by the left-wing news site The Grayzone, the TSA reported they banned Fuentes from flying because he posed a safety risk to crew members and threatened to strangle flight attendants."

According to Lahut, the evidence "submitted to the court" included "a clip from Fuentes' own podcast where he laid out a very specific scenario involving a flight attendant who asked him to put his mask on."

Fuentes, on his podcast, told listeners, "Let me tell you: I'm gonna land, and then, I’m gonna get in the airport parking lot, and I’m gonna wait for you. And then, I’m gonna put a mask over your face, your mouth and nose. You still need to be wearing the mask even if you can’t breathe."

The TSA was formed in November 2001 largely in response to al-Qaeda's 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Along the way, the TSA's No Fly List has had its share of critics as well as defenders on both the left and the right. The No Fly List started under Republican President George W. Bush and has continued under three subsequent presidents: Democrat Barack Obama, Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden.

Fuentes is known for having an abundance of extreme views. The AFPAC founder, a self-described "incel" and "Christian nationalist," has praised the Taliban's theocracy in Afghanistan and said the United States should adopt a similar government. Fuentes, however, is not a radical Islamist but rather, a far-right Catholic and favors replacing U.S. democracy with a severe Catholic theocracy.

Fuentes' AFPAC has attracted some well-known Republicans, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and former Newsmax pundit Michelle Malkin.

Read the Daily Beast’s full report at this link.

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