Mike Collins on January 6 Attack

Statements and actions by Mike Collins on this topic.

Public disputes concerning the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, subsequent prosecutions, pardons, compensation proposals, and official responses.

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Statement history

1 statement on this page. Dates: August 12, 2026

1 matching statement. Dates: August 12, 2026

2 published statements. Dates: August 11, 2026 to August 12, 2026

Mike Collins
Role at the time: Mike Collins U.S. Senate campaign, through spokesperson Meyer Siegfried
August 12, 2026Challenged the characterization
Responding to
Did Mike Collins support compensation for January 6 defendants?
"“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.”"
Why we used this label
The campaign expressly disputes Ossoff’s characterization of Collins’s answer as support for taxpayer-funded payouts to January 6 defendants.
Georgia Recorder report on Mike Collins’s January 6 compensation remarks

Savannah breakfast Q&A; Collins campaign clarification

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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