Mike Collins says government is liable when it harms citizens
Mike CollinsRepublican nominee for U.S. Senate in Georgia
In answer to a question about an anti-weaponization compensation fund and relief for people the questioner said had been harmed by a weaponized political system, Collins said the government has liability when it harms someone.
“A lot of things have been politicized and weaponized. And when the federal government harms you, then yes, they have a liability to you. That’s easy, yes sir.”
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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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Reports the August 11 Savannah exchange in which a pardoned January 6 defendant asked Collins about compensation for people harmed by a weaponized political system, as well as the Collins campaign’s August 12 clarification that he did not support a blank-check fund or automatic payouts for January 6 prosecutions.
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At a Savannah breakfast event, Dominic Box identified himself as a non-violent January 6 participant and asked whether Collins supported the proposed anti-weaponization compensation fund or other relief for people across the political spectrum whom he said had been targeted.
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The Collins campaign later said he did not support a blank-check fund or automatic taxpayer-funded payouts merely because someone had been prosecuted for January 6.
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Collins’s answer is conditional on government harm and responds to a question broader than January 6 defendants, but the question was posed by a pardoned January 6 defendant who explicitly included January 6 participants.
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