Former GOP Congressman Has a White Nationalist Fascist as His Field Director

After appearing at an event alongside Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes, former Illinois Rep. Bobby Schilling (and then-primary candidate for Congress representing Iowa’s second district) faced controversy yet again when news broke that his Field Director, Michael Sisco, had invited Fuentes to the event.

Further investigation revealed that Sisco holds white nationalist and antisemitic views, has attended fascist events, and is anti-democracy. Schilling fired Sisco once this was made public.

Sisco’s antisemitism and white nationalism is not restricted to his support for Fuentes. He also has a podcast entitled “Hearth and Fire,” on which he interviews multiple far-right extremists. One of Sisco’s interviews was with Michael Witcoff, an antisemitic ex-Jewish conspiracy theorist. In the interview, Sisco and Witcoff reviewed the Poway Synagogue shooter’s manifesto. At minute 00:09:15, they read aloud this passage from the manifesto:

"I do not care about the debt-based currency that Jews like to pretend is money and the circus that Jewry has used to attempt to passify my people"

Cisco adds: "I do kind of agree with him on the money thing."

Witcoff replies: "I would agree with him on both points actually [...] it's less a group of cohesive Jews against everyone else, and more that it's a bunch of individuals who are all kind of genetically and spiritually almost unconsciously and instinctually playing out the same patterns, even against each other as much as everyone else."

Sisco’s overt antisemitism has also come through in his personal tweets:

Sisco quote-tweeting a racist sock-puppet account (although it’s highly unlikely he knew the account was fake) adding his own antisemitic commentary about “Jewish supremacy.”