Known for being politically incorrect, YouTuber Brandon Herrera is raising eyebrows over a 2022 video where the Texas congressional candidate promotes a Nazi rifle, a weapon he calls Hitler’s “street sweeper” and the “original ghetto blaster.” “.
Herrera, 28, can be seen in a video 2022 firing the MP-40 submachine gun choreographed to the song ‘Erika’, used by the Nazis as a marching melody.
“Today we are going to make a video about a gun that I have wanted since I was very young, simply because it is super cool and a very interesting piece of history,” the gun enthusiast, known as the AK guy on the Internet, explains in the newspaper. shorten.
He and another man dressed in military attire can be seen displaying the weapon, as the man initiates a ‘Heil Hitler’ salute, before Herrera stops him, as part of the dark humor skit.
Herrera, who is vying to represent a congressional district that includes Uvalde, site of a horrific 2022 school shooting that claimed the lives of 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School, acknowledges that the use of the song is controversial.
Texas congressional candidate and gun enthusiast Brandon Herrera fires the MP-40, a rifle made famous because it was used by the Nazis during the Holocaust.
In a 2022 YouTube video, Herrera fires the gun to the sound of the German military song used by the Nazis.
As part of a dark humor parody, Herrera and an associate dressed in a uniform that looks like the SS, the two men parade the boys. Herrera also prevents the other man from completing a ‘Heil Hitler’ salute.
“If you’re one of the few people who realizes that there’s absolutely nothing wrong with the song we just used, and that it’s just a bunch of soldiers singing about a pretty girl they miss back home, go ahead and hit the button subscription”. ‘, says Herrera in his own defense.
The online athlete used ‘Erika’ in another video as background music and has also used ‘SS marschiert in Feindesland’ (SS marches into enemy territory) and ‘Panzerlied’ (Tank Song).
The video is perfect for Herrera, who proudly makes off-color jokes in his other shocking videos, including one that recreates the assassination of US Presidents MLK and opens a fake brain while covered in blood for his 3 million viewers. followers.
The San Antonio resident decided to run for office because of a vote on gun control cast by Republican incumbent Tony Gonzales after the Uvalde massacre.
Gonzales voted for a bipartisan 2022 bill that provides funding to states with “red flag” laws that allow judges to take firearms away from people who pose an immediate danger to themselves or others and has improved checks. of background information for the sale of weapons.
Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, center, speaking at a press conference on the steps of the Capitol in Washington, DC in July 2021.
In the Lincoln assassination YouTube video he recreated, congressional candidate Brandon Herrera smashed a fake skull that was supposed to represent Lincoln’s head and removed the brain, squeezing out fake blood.
Texas congressional candidate and Second Amendment fanatic Brandon Herrera has 3.2 million followers on YouTube, where he reenacts the assassinations of President Abraham Lincoln, JFK, and MLK.
Salvador Ramos, 18, killed 19 students and two teachers – and injured 17 others – at Texas City’s Robb Elementary School during the May 24 attack.
Heartbreaking footage shows distraught Uvalde students with blood-soaked hair and clothing fleeing Robb Elementary School on the school bus as a girl tearfully tells police how she tried not to cry while calling 911 to report a shooting massive.
As a result, the moderate Republican was censured by the Texas Republican Party, even though the congressman is an outspoken critic of the Biden administration and rails against the president’s border policies on a daily basis.
The district covers nearly half of the US-Mexico border, stretching from Eagle Pass to El Paso.
Herrera, a far-left conservative who wants to get rid of the ATF, challenged Gonzales for the Republican nomination last month.
While Gonzales, a former Navy officer who served in Afghanistan, received 45% of the vote compared to Herrera’s 25%, he fell short of the 50% needed to avoid a runoff, which will take place on the 28th. of May.
Herrera has assumed other extreme positions, such as being a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, an organization that is committed to vindicating ‘the cause for which we fight,’ according to his website.
Another Republican extremist, Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz, had embraced him.
Neither Herrera nor Gonzales’ campaigns responded to a request for comment.
The 23rd Congressional District in Texas includes Uvalde and approximately 400 miles of the United States border with Mexico. Migrant crossing hotspots like Eagle Pass and El Paso are also part of the district.