Texas Republicans busted at meeting with white nationalists

White supremacist influencer Nick Fuentes and acquitted Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse met with an ultraconservative fundraiser and Republican Party officials in Texas.

Jonathan Stickland, whose group has donated millions to Texas Republicans, hosted a meeting Friday at a building he owns in Fort Worth, and reporters from the Texas Tribune spotted Fuentes, Rittenhouse and state GOP chair Matt Rinaldi going inside after receiving a tip about their arrival.

“We were just borrowing a conference room,” Rinaldi said, and distanced himself from Fuentes. I completely condemn that guy and everything he stands for. I would never in a million years meet with that guy.”

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Fuentes entered the building, where Strickland's consulting firm Pale House Strategies is headquartered, around 11 a.m. and left just after 5:30 p.m., and Rinaldi arrived just before 1:45 p.m. and left about 45 minutes later.

Ella Maulding, who has praised Fuentes as ”the greatest civil rights leader in history,” moved from Mississippi to Fort Worth earlier this year to work as a social media coordinator for Pale Horse Strategies, and she was seen at the Friday meeting and recorded a video outside the building for Texans For Strong Borders.

That group's founder Chris Russo was also spotted driving Fuentes to the meeting at Pale Horse Strategies.

Strickland and Rinaldi, who are each former state representatives who have worked to steer the Texas GOP even further to the right, have been bankrolled by West Texas oil billionaires Tim Dunn, Farris Wilks and Dan Wilks, who have given more than $100 million to groups aimed at anti-LGBTQ activity and replacing Republican officials with conservative hardliners.