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Republican senator employs aide fired by DeSantis over neo-Nazi imagery

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Nate Hochman , 26 , has worked for Missouri Republican senator Eric Schmitt since February .

He was previously fired from Ron DeSantis ’s unsuccessful presidential campaign after making a video containing neo- Nazi imagery.

He later peddled far-right conspiracy theories in a Marco Rubio -linked thinktank.

Hochman is just one activist with far-right links who has found employment in the second Trump administration.

Darren Beattie served as a speechwriter in the first Trump administration but was fired in 2018 after CNN revealed he had spoken at a 2016 HL Mencken Club meeting also attended by white nationalists including Richard Spencer and Peter Brimelow .