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A far-right conspiracy theorist podcaster and former bounty hunter with ties to several influential figures in President Donald Trump's orbit advocated for a "final solution" to deport all Jews from the United States in a recent episode — echoing Nazi language used in planning for the Holocaust.
Stew Peters, who has argued the Earth is flat, called for vaccine developers to be executed, and denied the Holocaust, made the comments during an interview with Matt Baker, a far-right California activist who once shouted "Heil Fauci!" during an anti-vaccine rant in California.
Baker appeared uncomfortable with Peters' comments, according to a clip captured by Right Wing Watch. "I don't think we should deport all Jewish people," he said.
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"I'm two years ahead of you on that, and in two years you'll come back and say, yeah, you were right about that," Peters replied. "I'm a little bit ahead of people, just like I was with COVID and the bioweapon, okay? I'm a little bit ahead of people. We absolutely do need a final solution on that."
Peters has given interviews to a number of people with close ties to Trump, including current FBI Director Kash Patel, former Arizona candidate Kari Lake, and a number of Trump-aligned GOP members of Congress.
During his confirmation hearings, Patel tried to distance himself from Peters, saying he wasn't familiar with him "off the top of my head" when asked by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), who proceeded to remind him he went on Peters' show eight separate times.
Peters then lashed out at Patel over the denial, saying that Patel was "lying" about not knowing Peters.
“He’s very familiar on a lot of different levels,” Peters said. “And I’m not going to get into that right now because this guy’s going through a Senate confirmation hearing so I’m not going to get into too many personal specifics at this point but that’s flagrantly false what he said there.”