“Congressman Steve King’s recent comments, actions, and retweets are completely inappropriate. We must stand up against white supremacy and hate in all forms, and I strongly condemn this behavior.” So states Ohio Rep. Steve Stivers, head of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), via Twitter. He’s referring to King’s endorsement of Canadian white nationalist Faith Goldy for Toronto mayor, and also, perhaps, to nasty and indefensible remarks the Iowa congressman made in an interview with the neo-fascist Austrian publication Unzensuriert.

That interview took place, it bears pointing out again, while King was in Austria visiting officials from the far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ), an anti-immigration group with close ties to European race-nationalism movements. King was at the time on a foundation-funded trip to Poland to view “Jewish and Holocaust historical sites,” but he took a side jaunt to Austria (paying his own way) specifically in order to meet FPÖ officials. In his interview with Unzensuriert, as Adam Rubenstein pointed out in this space on October 25, King grumbled about the horrors of immigrants—“somebody else’s babies”—replacing hardworking Americans’ children (“we add to our population approximately 1.8 million of ‘somebody else’s babies’ who are raised in another culture before they get to us”).