Clay Higgins' controversial past resurfaces after Epstein Files vote: Auschwitz video to racist remarks on Haitians
Posted on: Nov 19, 2025 03:30 IST | Posted by: Hindustantimes
repp. Lucius clay Higgins, representing Louisiana's 3rd congressional dominion, has opposed a put up voter turnout to fully release Jeffrey Epstein's case files.
On an X post after the vote, Higgins defended his decision, writing, “I have been a principled 'NO' on this bill from the beginning. What was wrong with the bill three months ago is still wrong today. It abandons 250 years of criminal justice procedure in America.”
In light of his vote against the release, his past controversies call into question his judgment and integrity as a lawmaker entrusted with accountability.
Higgins's history includes controversies circling racism, the holocaust and, according to a Mother Jones investigation, association with former “law enforcement officials of severe wrongdoing—including allegedly participating in a sex trafficking ring in one case and of committing incest in another.”
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Higgins’s Auschwitz video first made headlines when he posted footage marking his visit to the death camps. He said he had made the video to remind the world of evil and to justify the U.S. Military’s strength.
In the 2017 video, he narrated the horrors of genocide and stated, “This is why … our military must be invincible.”
According to the Guardian, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Museum strongly condemned the act, calling the gas chamber a place for “mourning, not a stage.”
Higgins later apologised, saying, “My intent was to offer a reverent homage…I did not intend to offend.”
He removed the video and expressed regret. The controversy, however, has followed him into his political career.
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In September 2024, Higgins posted incendiary remarks on X (formerly Twitter) that repeated racist claims about Haitians. In the post, Higgins called them “wild” and “slapstick gangsters,” and accused them of criminal behaviour and cult activity.
His post added to the disinformation campaign that alleged that Haitian migrants were eating pets.
The incident sparked calls for his censure from Democratic lawmakers. But House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican and fellow Louisianan, defended him, saying Higgins “prayed on it … regretted it” before deleting the post.
Higgins, however, doubled down publicly, saying he stood by the language. “It’s all true … I’ll say what I want,” he had said.
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