Ossoff condemns alleged compensation for January 6 attackers
Jon OssoffU.S. senator from Georgia, speaking in a Senate debate
Ossoff opposed using tax dollars to compensate violent attackers and attributed that policy to Collins.
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Collins’s answer at the Savannah event amounted to support for taxpayer-funded payouts to violent January 6 participants.
“he wants to give your tax dollars to the violent thugs and criminals who sacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6th.”
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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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Transcript of the October 8 debate. Ossoff criticizes compensation for January 6 attackers; his allegation does not establish that Collins supports automatic payouts.
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Ossoff was answering a voter-ID question and discussing the attempt to overturn the 2020 election.
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Collins answers by arguing for voter ID and passage of the SAVE Act.
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He explicitly condemns the alleged compensation policy.
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