A former staffer to Rep. Mike Collins (R-Ga.) posted an AI-generated image of himself wearing a notorious white robe and hood on social media, The Washington Post reported.

Preston Parra shared the image on X, saying it was created using Grok's AI feature. He claimed the post was meant to be "satirical" and described himself as a provocateur.

According to the report, Parra insisted that Collins had no knowledge of the account while Parra was working for the Senate hopeful, noting that he had kept the account private. "What, is there supposed to be some kind of CIA background check?" Parra said.

Parra denied being a white supremacist, saying it is against his religion, and pointed out that his father is Colombian. "I do think that the white race contributes more to the world," he said.

In July, Parra posted another image that repeatedly used a slang word often used to describe young and slim gay men, arranged in the shape of a swastika. Gay men were among those who faced torture and death in the Holocaust at the hands of the Nazis.

The Post reported that "Parra's consulting website says that Collins praised the quality of his 'product,' although it does not say when Collins made the remark or what specifically he was referring to." The site quotes Collins as saying: "You can grade it by the amount of people that are watching it and pushing it back out." Parra said the statement referred to the digital work he had done as part of his job for Collins. He also posted a message celebrating Collins, saying, "let's get that man elected."

Collins has been campaigning against Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.), and the episode adds to a string of reports about people in his orbit and their ties to racist or antisemitic content. His son-in-law came under fire for allegedly racist posts, and Collins' former chief of staff faced similar allegations last month after reports that the staffer was in a group chat with white nationalists. For a campaign already under scrutiny, those repeated associations have become part of the broader political fallout around the race.

After that incident, more than 50 Black Georgia lawmakers signed onto a statement condemning Collins for his associates' comments and posts that have been widely panned as racist and antisemitic.

"In the South, we have a saying: You lay down with dogs, you get up with fleas," Debbie Dooley, an original tea party organizer, told the Post. "Well, Mike Collins has got a lot of fleas on him."