DeRay McKesson
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.8; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Cabin, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Chuck C. Johnson, a former Breitbart reporter who ran a <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/09/19/once-outlet-conspiracies-gotnewscom-now-shuttered-without-explanation" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 191, 165); transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">far-right conspiracy site</a> and was banned from Twitter for threatening to “<a href="https://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/05/troll-charles-johnson-banned-from-twitter-207688" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 191, 165); transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">take out</a>” Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson, is best known for a <a href="https://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/47918_Holocaust_Denier_Chuck_C._John" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 191, 165); transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">2017 rant</a> in which he said, “I do not and never have believed the six million figure. I think the Red Cross numbers of 250,000 dead in the camps from typhus are more realistic … I agree with David Cole about Auschwitz and the gas chambers not being real.”</p><div class="p13_35" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Cabin, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; font-size: 17px; line-height: 1.8; color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Cabin, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">When confronted about the interaction, Harris <a href="https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/andy-harris-unware-chuck-johnson-holocaust-denier-previous-associations" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 191, 165); transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">said</a>, “I am unaware of his previous associations, but we had a discussion involving his business with genetic sequencing. Of course I disavow and condemn white supremacy and anti-semitism.” But there is little excuse for GOP lawmakers to not know who Johnson is anymore, given that Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and ex-Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) <a href="https://www.alternet.org/2018/09/dana-rohrabacher-matt-gaetz-chuck-johnson/" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 191, 165); transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">repeatedly got into trouble</a>associating with him as well.</p>