Rep. Steve Scalise (R-Louisiana), one of the top-ranking members of the Republican congressional caucus, apparently admitted on Monday that he spoke at a white supremacist event more than a decade ago.
Confirming an earlier report by the website CenLamar.com, the Washington Post reported that the House majority whip copped to being a speaker at the 2002 event when he was then a state lawmaker.
The organization he allegedly spoke at, the European-American Unity and Rights Organization, has been championed by white supremacist and former Louisiana State. Rep. David Duke. The Southern Poverty Law Center has documented the group's ties to extremist statements.
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