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The Guardian - US
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Jason Wilson

Republican senator employs aide fired by DeSantis over neo-Nazi imagery

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Republican Eric Schmitt is sworn is at the US Senate in January 2023. Photograph: Olivier Douliery/AFP/Getty Images

A staffer for the Missouri Republican senator Eric Schmitt was previously fired from Ron DeSantis’s unsuccessful presidential campaign after making a video containing neo-Nazi imagery, and later peddled far-right conspiracy theories in a Marco Rubio-linked thinktank.

Nate Hochman’s job in the hard-right senator’s office, along with earlier Trump appointments to executive agencies, suggests to some experts there are few barriers to far-right activists making a career in Republican party politics.

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