"The bad guys won in WWII": Minnesota candidate is latest GOP member to espouse pro-Nazi view

Former NBA player Royce White is the second GOP candidate on a statewide ticket in 2024 with past pro-Nazi comments

By Griffin Eckstein

News Fellow

Published October 5, 2024 3:49PM (EDT)

 Republican candidate for Senate Royce White (L) greets attendees before a rally featuring U.S. Republican Presidential nominee former President Donald Trump and Republican vice presidential nominee U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) at Herb Brooks National Hockey Center on July 27, 2024 in St Cloud, Minnesota. Trump hopes to flip the state of Minnesota this November, which hasn't been carried by a Republican in a presidential election since 1972. (Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)
Republican candidate for Senate Royce White (L) greets attendees before a rally featuring U.S. Republican Presidential nominee former President Donald Trump and Republican vice presidential nominee U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) at Herb Brooks National Hockey Center on July 27, 2024 in St Cloud, Minnesota. Trump hopes to flip the state of Minnesota this November, which hasn't been carried by a Republican in a presidential election since 1972. (Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

The Republicans can't help but hand it to Hitler lately. 

Royce White, a former NBA player and present-day conspiracist running for a U.S. Senate seat in Minnesota, claimed in a recently unearthed social media post that the “bad guys won” in World War Two.

“The bad guys won in WWII. There were no 'good guys' in that war,” White wrote in a post still live on X, referring to the American, British and Soviet troops who defeated Nazi forces and liberated millions from concentration camps. “The controlling interests had a jump ball.”

The remarks were resurfaced by Heartland Signal. White has been running to unseat Sen. Amy Klobuchar and the seemingly pro-Nazi tweets aren't tthe only controversial comments made he's made online.

In a post this week, White told a voter on the fence to “pull your skirt down,” prompting that voter to respond, “you just lost my families (sic) support.”

White isn’t the only GOP candidate to land in hot water for a seeming affinity for Nazis in recent weeks.

North Carolina gubernatorial candidate and incumbent Lt. Governor Mark Robinson’s posts on a pornography forum, uncovered by CNN, showed a pattern of support for fascist ideology. Robinson even dubbed himself a “black NAZI” and said that he would prefer Hitler’s leadership to Barack Obama’s.

“I’d take Hitler over any of the sh*t that’s in Washington right now!” Robinson said in 2012.

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