Busted: Texas MAGA activist caught hosting infamous Holocaust denier
In Fort Worth, Texas, GOP activist Matt Strickland operates a consulting firm called Pale Horse Strategies. Strickland is known for preferring far-right MAGA Republicans over more traditional conservatives.
On Friday, October 6, Pale Horse — according to the Texas Tribune — hosted an event in Fort Worth that included Nick Fuentes, the white supremacist and Holocaust denier who founded the America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC).
The Texas Tribune's Robert Downen reports that Matt Rinaldi, Texas GOP chairman and a Strickland ally, "was also seen entering the building while Fuentes was inside." But Rinaldi, according to Downen, says he didn't know that Fuentes was on the premises.
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Rinaldi told the Texas Tribune, "We were just borrowing a conference room."
The Texas GOP chairman said of Fuentes, "I completely condemn that guy and everything he stands for. I would never in a million years meet with that guy."
Downen notes, "Stickland and Rinaldi are major players in an ongoing civil war with the more moderate, but still deeply conservative, flank of the Texas GOP. Both are former state representatives who have attacked members of their own party, like U.S. Sen. John Cornyn and Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan, as insufficiently conservative."
As of Sunday afternoon, October 8, Strickland, Downen reports, had not responded to interview requests from the Texas Tribune.
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Read the Texas Tribune's full report at this link.
