GOP campaign staffer "liked" antisemitic memes

• 21-year-old Caleb Oriet introduced himself as "deputy political director" of Sheehy's campaign at an event last month, according to audio obtained by Axios.
• The campaign has said he was a "young field staffer."
• Oriet has been on the campaign's payroll since at least last October, according to federal filings.

Zoom in: Oriet's Instagram account, @realbased_caleb, liked a number of antisemitic and racist posts, which had not been previously reported.

• The account was deleted after Axios reached out to the campaign for comment.
• The Sheehy campaign did not respond to the request.
• One of the Instagram posts from June 2022 that was liked by Oriet says "Don't follow me for my cute cat posting if you can't stand by me when I deny the Holocaust."

Many of the posts were from the meme account "its.okay.to.be.christian," which Oriet followed, and regularly posts antisemitic content.

Zoom out: Sheehy's campaign last week brushed aside the Daily Beast's reporting that claimed Oriet engaged with racist content on X, formerly known as Twitter.

• For example, Orient liked a post that referred to Black people as "the most criminal, dependent, and socially destructive part" of the U.S population.