A MAGA star was left squirming when asked to disavow Nazi-praising correspondence in a young Republicans group chat.
Andrew Kolvet panicked when grilled about thousands of messages sent between members of the Young Republican National Federation, including one that said “I love Hitler.”
The executive producer of the Charlie Kirk Show was speaking at a NewsNation town hall at the Kennedy Center as part of a broader conversation about political violence.
He was given multiple chances to distance himself from the messages, which include references to gas chambers and an array of racial slurs.
“We saw this Nazi group chat, which I’m sure you condemn, right?” social media personality Adam Mockler asked him.
“We can talk about it,” Kolvet, a spokesperson for Turning Point USA, replied.
“Do you condemn it?” YouTube star Mockler asked again as fellow panelists Bill O’Reilly and Stephen A. Smith watched on.
The second time of asking, Kolvet said, “I want to talk about it.”
Kolvet, who described himself as “a business partner of Charlie’s” at the memorial for the murdered Kirk, appeared on the town hall program hosted by Chris Cuomo.
Mockler then added, “So, you’re like JD Vance? You won’t condemn this?”
His reference to the vice president relates to his appearance on a new episode of The Charlie Kirk Show, when Vance suggested that members of the Young Republicans were far younger than they actually were.
“The reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys,” Vance said, according to The Guardian. “They tell edgy, offensive jokes. That’s what kids do. And I really don’t want us to grow up in a country where a kid telling a stupid joke—telling a very offensive, stupid joke—is cause to ruin their lives.”
The age range for the group is 18-40 years old.
Politico exposed the chat’s messages. The publication acquired months of Telegram correspondence between dozens of leaders of the organization from across the country.
The leaders mentioned in the reporting were from states including New York, Kansas, Arizona, and Vermont. Members of the GOP have slammed them, and some have lost their political jobs, The Hill reports.
The 15,000-member group itself called for the resignation of those involved and condemned the “vile and inexcusable language revealed in the Politico article.”
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