KFile: Mike Collins joked about pushing Pelosi from a plane, suggested hanging US leaders

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In last week’s Georgia Senate debate , Democrat Jon Ossoff accused Republican congressman Mike Collins of calling for immigrants to be thrown to their deaths from helicopters, referring to a social media post Collins sent in 2024.

Collins didn’t address the accusation directly and instead pivoted to immigration enforcement and criticized Ossoff.

But it wasn’t the first time Collins commented on killing people by throwing them out of an aircraft. In an August 2021 tweet, amid the chaos of the Afghanistan withdrawal, Collins suggested American military and political leaders deserved to be hanged from a helicopter. He also joked about pushing then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi out of an airplane.

A CNN KFile review of Collins’ past social media posts and interviews reveals previously unreported remarks that were part of a broader pattern of promoting January 6 conspiracy theories and suggesting extrajudicial killings of political opponents and perceived enemies.

Collins repeatedly downplayed the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol as a peaceful tour by grandmothers. He also continued to praise and accepted the endorsement of Arizona state Sen. Wendy Rogers after she called for “more gallows” while speaking at a White nationalist conference in 2022 and was censured by her own party’s led state senate.

The findings come as Collins, in his race against the incumbent Ossoff, faces scrutiny over his associations with figures linked to White nationalism and the far-right.

In July, KFile revealed that Collins’ son-in-law is a pro-White nationalist and social media influencer with a track record of sharing antisemitic material and Nazi imagery in comments across the internet.

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The Collins campaign did not respond to CNN’s request for comment.

Collins’ August 2021 tweet came as the Biden administration was grappling with the fallout of its chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, which left 13 US service members dead. Collins reposted and commented on posts of an image that purported to show the Taliban hanging someone from a helicopter.

“If someone said this is what should happen to some of our military/political leaders for everything that’s happened in AFG lately they’d probably get banned,” Collins wrote . “So good thing no one says that.”

Just weeks earlier, during a July 2021 , appearance on the conservative Christian radio program “Sandy Rios in the Morning,” Collins joked about pushing Pelosi out of a plane.

During the interview, fellow Republican congressional candidate Joe Kent was discussing his travel arrangements when host Sandy Rios joked that he could catch a ride with Pelosi.

“She’d be happy to give me a ride, I’m sure,” Kent said. “Might push her out,” Collins interjected. Rios immediately interjected. “Oh, don’t say that. They’ll be after you. You know they will,” Rios said. “I was joking,” Collins added.

The comments have drawn renewed attention amid scrutiny of Collins’ political associations and past statements. During the latest debate, Collins was asked directly whether he was a White nationalist.

“No, I condemn any sort of hate speech, antisemitism, hate of any kind. It’s abhorrent,” Collins replied , adding that he had fired people over previous incidents. Ossoff repeatedly challenged Collins to commit to stopping what he described as “neo-Nazi propaganda” being produced from the congressman’s home, referring to KFile’s reporting that Collins’ son-in-law lives on a property owned by Collins.

“I’m a little tired of this, Jon,” Collins said, accusing Ossoff of fueling threats against him and his family.

Since that reporting, CNN has also identified an additional antisemitic comment connected to a new skincare business launched Wednesday by Collins’ son-in-law. The comment, posted from the business’ Instagram account, included a reference to “goyslop,” an antisemitic phrase commonly used in White nationalist circles to disparage unhealthy products that they say Jews market to non-Jews.

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Collins has also repeatedly praised Arizona state Sen. Wendy Rogers, the outspoken far-right Republican who was censured by her own state’s Republican-led Senate in March 2022 after speaking at a White nationalist conference and making inflammatory statements about her political enemies.

Rogers had addressed the America First Political Action Conference, which was organized by White nationalist Nick Fuentes, in February 2022 where she called Fuentes “the most persecuted man in America.” She also praised his followers as “the future” and declared that “we need to build more gallows.”

The Arizona Senate voted 24-3 to censure Rogers days later, with 11 Republicans joining Democrats in condemning her conduct.

Despite the nationally publicized controversy, Collins continued to praise Rogers publicly and highlight her support.

In June 2022, nearly four months after Rogers’ appearance at the conference and her subsequent censure, Collins thanked her for supporting his congressional campaign. “Very grateful to Senator Rogers! An early supporter who never backed down! Thank you!” Collins wrote on X.

In August 2022, Collins included Rogers among several political allies he wished good luck to ahead of their elections.

The relationship continued years later.

On July 28, 2025, the day Collins launched his campaign for the US Senate, he responded to Rogers on X, writing , “Thank you, Wendy!” after she endorsed his campaign.

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Collins also repeatedly promoted conspiracy theories and misleading characterizations of January 6, including suggesting that the FBI was more focused on prosecuting peaceful grandmothers than investigating the pipe bombs discovered near the Capitol.

During an August 2022 appearance on “In the Trenches with Teddy Daniels,” Collins raised conspiracy theories surrounding Ray Epps, a January 6 participant who became the subject of baseless claims that he was a federal agent who helped instigate the riot.

“I wanna know about January 6th,” Collins said, before questioning why some defendants remained jailed and called them “political prisoners.” Daniels then characterized the attack as a “grandma-guided tour through the capital,” suggesting that participants had been denied due process. “Amen, brother,” Collins responded.

Collins went on to raise questions about Epps and the pipe bombs discovered outside the Democratic and Republican national committee headquarters.

“Who is Ray Epps? What role did he really play?” Collins asked. “And another thing, what about these pipe bombs that they supposedly had out there? What is the deal with those? We need full investigations on that.”

The program was carried on the Stew Peters Network, a platform founded by a far-right conspiracy theorist who has promoted Holocaust denial and antisemitic conspiracy theories.

Peters had also spoken at the same February 2022 White nationalist conference addressed by Rogers. During his remarks, Peters asked why Dr. Anthony Fauci was not “hanging by the end of a noose somewhere.”

Collins continued to downplay the Capitol attack after entering Congress.

On January 6, 2025, the fourth anniversary of the riot, Collins posted a lengthy message on X characterizing the events as an unauthorized tour by peaceful elderly protesters.

“On #ThisDayInHistory in 2021, thousands of peaceful grandmothers gathered in Washington, D.C., to take a self-guided, albeit unauthorized, tour of the U.S. Capitol building,” Collins wrote .

He then claimed that peaceful protesters had subsequently been “hunted down, arrested, held in solitary confinement, and treated unjustly,” and criticized the federal government’s prosecution of the January 6 defendants.

During the latest debate, Collins repeatedly declined to directly answer questions about whether Trump won the 2020 presidential election. When he was asked by a moderator whether he still believed Trump had defeated Joe Biden, Collins pivoted to criticizing Biden’s administration.

“There was a lot of doubt in that election,” Collins said.

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在上周佐治亚州参议院的辩论中，民主党人乔恩·奥索夫指责共和党众议员迈克·柯林斯呼吁将移民从直升机上扔下致死，他指的是柯林斯在 2024 年发布的一条社交媒体帖子。

科林斯没有直接回应这一指控，而是将话题转向移民执法，并批评了奥索夫。

但这并非柯林斯第一次发表将人从飞机上扔下去致死的言论。2021年8月，在阿富汗撤军混乱之际，柯林斯在推特上暗示，美国军政领导人应该被吊死在直升机上。他还开玩笑说要把当时的众议院议长南希·佩洛西从飞机上推下去。

CNN KFile 对柯林斯过去的社交媒体帖子和采访进行了审查，发现此前未曾报道过的言论，这些言论是更广泛的宣传 1 月 6 日阴谋论和暗示对政治对手和被认为是敌人的人进行法外处决的模式的一部分。

科林斯一再淡化2021年1月6日发生在美国国会大厦的袭击事件，称其为一群祖母的和平巡游。此外，在亚利桑那州参议员温迪·罗杰斯于2022年在一次白人民族主义者会议上呼吁“处以更多绞刑”并因此受到其所在政党控制的州参议院谴责后，科林斯仍然继续赞扬并接受罗杰斯的背书。

在与现任议员奥索夫的竞选中，科林斯因与白人民族主义和极右翼人士的联系而受到审查，而这些调查结果正是在此背景下发布的。

7 月，KFile 披露，柯林斯的女婿是一名亲白人民族主义者和社交媒体影响者，他曾多次在互联网上的评论中分享反犹太主义材料和纳粹图像。

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科林斯竞选团队没有回应 CNN 的置评请求。

科林斯于2021年8月发布推文时，拜登政府正努力应对其从阿富汗混乱撤军的后果，那次撤军导致13名美军士兵丧生。科林斯转发并评论了一张图片，该图片据称显示塔利班将某人吊死在直升机上。

科林斯写道：“如果有人说，鉴于阿富汗最近发生的一切，我们的一些军事/政治领导人就应该受到这样的惩罚，那他们很可能会被禁言。所以幸好没人这么说。”

就在几周前，2021 年 7 月，柯林斯在保守派基督教广播节目“桑迪·里奥斯早间秀”中开玩笑说要把佩洛西推出飞机。

在采访过程中，共和党国会候选人乔·肯特正在讨论他的旅行安排，主持人桑迪·里奥斯开玩笑说他可以搭佩洛西的车。

“她肯定很乐意载我一程，”肯特说。“说不定会把她赶出去，”柯林斯插嘴道。里奥斯立刻插话道：“哦，别这么说。他们会找你麻烦的。你知道他们会的，”里奥斯说。“我开玩笑的，”柯林斯补充道。

在人们密切关注柯林斯的政治关系和过往言论之际，这些评论再次引发关注。在最近一次辩论中，柯林斯被直接问及他是否是白人民族主义者。

“不，我谴责任何形式的仇恨言论、反犹主义以及任何形式的仇恨。这令人憎恶，”柯林斯回应道，并补充说他之前就曾因类似事件解雇过人。奥索夫反复质问柯林斯，要求他承诺停止在其家中散布他所谓的“新纳粹宣传”，并提及KFile的报道，称柯林斯的女婿居住在柯林斯名下的一处房产中。

“我有点厌倦了，乔恩，”柯林斯说道，并指责奥索夫煽动对他及其家人的威胁。

自那篇报道之后，CNN又发现一条与柯林斯女婿周三推出的一家新护肤品公司有关的反犹言论。这条评论发布在该公司的Instagram账号上，其中提到了“goyslop”（非犹太人的劣质食品），这是一个反犹词汇，常被白人至上主义者用来贬低他们所说的犹太人向非犹太人推销的不健康产品。

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科林斯还多次赞扬亚利桑那州参议员温迪·罗杰斯，这位直言不讳的极右翼共和党人曾在2022年3月因在白人民族主义者会议上发表讲话并对其政治敌人发表煽动性言论而受到本州共和党控制的参议院的谴责。

2022年2月，罗杰斯在由白人民族主义者尼克·富恩特斯组织的“美国优先政治行动大会”上发表讲话，称富恩特斯是“美国受迫害最严重的人”。她还称赞富恩特斯的追随者是“未来”，并宣称“我们需要建造更多的绞刑架”。

几天后，亚利桑那州参议院以 24 比 3 的投票结果对罗杰斯予以谴责，其中 11 名共和党人与民主党人一起谴责了她的行为。

尽管这场争议在全国范围内广为人知，柯林斯仍然公开赞扬罗杰斯，并强调她对罗杰斯的支持。

2022年6月，在罗杰斯出席会议并随后受到谴责近四个月后，柯林斯感谢她支持他的国会竞选。“非常感谢罗杰斯参议员！她是一位早期支持者，从未退缩！谢谢！”柯林斯在X上写道。

2022 年 8 月，柯林斯在祝愿几位政治盟友选举顺利的同时，也向罗杰斯表达了祝愿。

这段关系在多年后依然延续。

2025 年 7 月 28 日，柯林斯宣布竞选美国参议员，他在 X 电台回复了罗杰斯，写道：“谢谢你，温迪！”此前罗杰斯公开支持了他的竞选活动。

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科林斯还反复宣扬阴谋论，并对 1 月 6 日事件做出误导性描述，包括暗示联邦调查局更关注起诉和平的祖母，而不是调查在国会大厦附近发现的管状炸弹。

2022 年 8 月，柯林斯在“与泰迪·丹尼尔斯一起在战壕里”节目中亮相，提出了围绕雷·埃普斯的阴谋论。雷·埃普斯是 1 月 6 日骚乱的参与者，他被毫无根据地指控为联邦特工，并帮助煽动了骚乱。

“我想了解1月6日的情况，”柯林斯说道，随后他质疑为何一些被告仍被关押，并称他们为“政治犯”。丹尼尔斯接着将这次袭击描述为“由老奶奶带领的首都之旅”，暗示参与者被剥夺了正当程序。“阿门，兄弟，”柯林斯回应道。

科林斯随后对埃普斯以及在民主党和共和党全国委员会总部外发现的管状炸弹提出了质疑。

“雷·埃普斯是谁？他究竟扮演了什么角色？”柯林斯问道。“还有，他们据说在现场发现的那些管状炸弹是怎么回事？我们需要对此进行全面调查。”

该节目在 Stew Peters Network 上播出，该平台由一位极右翼阴谋论者创立，他曾宣扬否认大屠杀和反犹太主义阴谋论。

彼得斯也曾在罗杰斯发表讲话的同一场2022年2月白人民族主义者大会上发言。在发言中，彼得斯质问道，为什么安东尼·福奇博士没有“被吊死在某个地方”。

科林斯进入国会后继续淡化国会大厦袭击事件。

2025 年 1 月 6 日，骚乱四周年之际，柯林斯在 X 上发表了一篇长文，将这些事件描述为和平的老年抗议者未经授权的巡游。

科林斯写道：“在2021年的今天，成千上万的和平祖母聚集在华盛顿特区，进行了一次未经授权的自助式美国国会大厦之旅。”

随后他声称，和平抗议者后来遭到“追捕、逮捕、单独监禁和不公正待遇”，并批评联邦政府对 1 月 6 日被告的起诉。

在最近一次辩论中，柯林斯多次拒绝直接回答有关特朗普是否赢得2020年总统大选的问题。当主持人问他是否仍然认为特朗普击败了乔·拜登时，柯林斯却转而批评拜登政府。

“那次选举有很多疑点，”柯林斯说。