WARNING: Disturbing content.
A self-described "white supremacist" and "paedophile" is running for Congress as an independent in the US state of Virginia.
The Huffington Post reports Nathan Larson, 37, admitted to reporters he was a paedophile during a recent interview, where he was reportedly asked whether he was a paedophile or just wrote about the subject.
“It’s a mix of both. When people go over the top there’s a grain of truth to what they say,” he said, according to The Huffington Post.
Larson, who is from Charlottesville, was reportedly asked whether there was a “grain of truth” in an essay he wrote about father-daughter incest and another about raping his ex-wife. He responded yes.
When asked what his constituents would think of his writings, he is reported to have said: “people are open-minded”.
Another interview with local news outlet WJLA was described by anchors as “disturbing” and “outrageous”.
During the interview, he was asked if he had ever had sex with someone under the age of 18.
“No, but I mean I might not tell you if I had either,” he responded.
An archived version of Larson’s campaign manifesto describes him as “a quasi-neoreactionary".
His campaign is focused on "stopping the war on drugs", "protecting gun ownership rights" and "putting an end to US involvement in foreign wars arising out of the country’s alliance with Israel".
The manifesto also lists Nazi leader Adolf Hitler as a “white supremacist hero” and calls for Congress to repeal the Violence Against Women Act.
Larson, an accountant, served 16 months in prison in 2009 after he was caught plotting to assassinate either George W Bush or Barack Obama.
The candidate has a three-year-old daughter who lives with relatives. His ex-wife is reported to have taken a restraining order out against him in 2015 before she died.
He has run for Congress before in 2008 before he was jailed over the threats to kill the president.
Larson has never been found guilty of paedophilia offences and WJLA claim local and federal police have not confirmed whether he is under investigation.
However, Huffington Post reported he had created two websites which were aimed at paedophiles, one which allegedly lobbied on their behalf and another which allegedly campaigned for legal suicide to be available to sex offenders.
His conviction would have typically meant he was ineligible to run for office in most US states however he is free to run in Virginia after the state’s former governor Terry McAuliffe restored voting and other civil rights to thousands of criminals in 2016.
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