Jon Ossoff
Role at the time: United States senator from Georgia and Democratic candidate for reelection
Condemned
Responding to
Did Mike Collins support compensation for January 6 defendants?
"“Congressman Collins needs to immediately come out and publicly retract his support for these taxpayer-funded payouts to violent insurrectionists.”"
Why we used this label
Ossoff directly characterizes Collins’s answer as endorsement of payments to violent insurrectionists and calls it unacceptable.
Ossoff campaign calls on Collins to retract January 6 compensation support (opens in a new tab)August 12, 2026 press release and linked virtual press conference
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.