Mike Collins campaign denies committing to pay January 6 defendants
Mike CollinsMike Collins U.S. Senate campaign, through spokesperson Meyer Siegfried
A Collins campaign spokesperson rejected the claim that Collins had committed to pay January 6 defendants, while maintaining support for a process through which people wronged by the government could seek relief.
“Mike Collins fully supports holding the government accountable when federal agencies abuse their power and believes Americans who’ve been wronged by their government ought to have a path to seek justice. He does not support a blank-check fund or automatic taxpayer-funded payouts to anyone simply because they were prosecuted for January 6.”
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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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The statement responded to public criticism of Collins’s August 11 exchange with Dominic Box, who asked about compensation connected to alleged federal-government weaponization.
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The response leaves a disagreement over what relief process Collins would support and how January 6 defendants could be treated within it.
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The campaign expressly disputes Ossoff’s characterization of Collins’s answer as support for taxpayer-funded payouts to January 6 defendants.
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