Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks at a white nationalist conference in Florida
ORLANDO, Fla. — For the second year in a row, an Orlando hotel hosted a secret white nationalist conference as CPAC was taking place nearby, and this year Republican U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene was the special guest.
Greene then appeared at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday in a panel discussion titled “They Can’t Shut Us Up!”
On Friday night, the Orlando World Center Marriott was the scene of white nationalist Nick Fuentes’ first political action conference, according to HuffPost. The Daily Beast also reported the gathering at this hotel.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., answers questions during a panel discussion at the Conservative Political Action Conference Saturday in Orlando, Fla. America’s first white nationalist political action conference was held nearby. John Raoux/Associated Press
The Hilton Orlando hosted AFPAC last year, also during CPAC.
Fuentes was involved in the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville in 2017 and was served a subpoena for his role in the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Marjorie Taylor Greene spoke at Friday night’s AFPAC.
Speakers at his event this year praised “western white culture” and called for the hanging of White House adviser Anthony Fauci, HuffPost reported. Participants also chanted, “Putin! Putin!” and applauded the Russian invasion of Ukraine, said Ben Lober, research analyst at Political Research Associates, who watched a live broadcast 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 video of the event. “I shouldn’t have said that,” he added, smiling and laughing.
Calls to the Marriott to ask questions about the event were dropped or immediately sent to voicemail. A request for comment from a Marriott spokesperson was not immediately returned.
A spokesperson for the Orange County Sheriff’s Office said deputies attended the Marriott around 9 p.m. for “several bomb threat calls that were made.” A package has been located and found to be safe.
Fuentes revealed that Greene was the secret guest, calling the assembled crowd “cancelled Americans,” HuffPost reported.
In a video posted to Greene’s website on Saturday, she said she was “unfamiliar” with Fuentes’ views and was speaking out because there was a large group of young people she wanted to be with. share “Early American Policies”.
CPAC, held this year at the Rosen Shingle Creek complex, tried to distance itself from Fuentes, kicking him out last year when he tried to enter.
But Greene, one of the most controversial members of the Republican Congress, spoke at CPAC on Saturday morning.
Grunts could be heard when Greene’s name was announced. But later she was applauded when she said, “I refuse to be quiet, and I refuse to be quiet and I’m so proud to be here…because none of us are going to be silent.”
Greene was stripped of her committee assignments last year for her endorsements of QAnon conspiracy theories and threats of violence against Democrats.
Like last year, Fuentes kept the location of his gathering a secret until the last minute. At the time, a spokesperson for Hilton who declined to be identified had no comment beyond insisting the event followed Orange County mask protocols imposed due to of the coronavirus pandemic.
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