Jon Ossoff calls on Mike Collins to retract January 6 payout support
Jon OssoffUnited States senator from Georgia and Democratic candidate for reelection
Ossoff said Collins’s answer amounted to support for taxpayer-funded payouts to violent January 6 participants and called for a public retraction.
“Congressman Collins needs to immediately come out and publicly retract his support for these taxpayer-funded payouts to violent insurrectionists.”
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Did Mike Collins support compensation for January 6 defendants?
At an August 11 Savannah campaign event, Mike Collins said the federal government has a liability when it harms someone after a pardoned January 6 defendant asked about compensation for people he said were targeted by a weaponized political system. Jon Ossoff said the answer backed taxpayer-funded payments to violent January 6 participants; the Collins campaign said it did not back automatic or blanket payouts for people prosecuted for January 6.
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Official Ossoff campaign record of the senator’s August 12 response, including its framing of Collins’s August 11 answer and a linked video of Ossoff’s virtual press conference.
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Ossoff’s campaign released the statement the day after Collins’s Savannah exchange, in the context of the proposed anti-weaponization fund and Collins’s affirmative answer to Box’s question.
After the quotation
The Collins campaign rejected Ossoff’s interpretation, saying Collins supported accountability for government abuse but not automatic payments for January 6 prosecutions.
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Ossoff directly characterizes Collins’s answer as endorsement of payments to violent insurrectionists and calls it unacceptable.
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The Dispute Index. "Jon Ossoff calls on Mike Collins to retract January 6 payout support". First published: 2026-09-10. Last updated: 2026-09-30. https://disputeindex.com/events/315-ossoff-said-collins-s-answer-amounted-to-support