Louisiana Congressman Clay Higgins challenges Facebook user to a fight

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The Lafayette Republican, who has a long history of bizarre social media antics, told an Alaska man named Joel Dolphin who commented on one of his posts that Higgins is “easy to find,” and suggested he is prepared to fight the man when he visits Alaska next year.

“I’ll be in Alaska next year, with (U.S. Rep.) Don Young,” Higgins wrote after Dolphin said he’d be happy to reiterate his criticisms face-to-face with the congressman. “Beautiful. I’ve enjoyed my time there. Like I said. I’m easy to find. Locate us a ring, or a dojo. I’ll give you a few rounds to make your point. Be seeing you. Higgins out.”

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The comment that set Higgins off came from Dolphin, an Alaska man who identified himself as a “former lawman.” Dolphin called Higgins a “sycophantic fool” and a “traitor.”

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Dolphin, a 34-year-old state investigator who lives in Anchorage, told The Advocate and The Times-Picayune he was only "mildly" surprised to see a congressman challenge him to a fight because he was "already aware of his very poor character."

"I accepted his challenge but given his history of similar conduct I'm not expecting anything to happen," Dolphin said. "Challenging a citizen to a fight isn’t a good look for a U.S. Congressman or for U.S. politics in general for that matter. It’s just another reason for his constituents to be disappointed in him — add it to the pile. I hope a more moderate and honest Republican successfully primaries him."

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In 2019, Higgins apologized and retracted a video he filmed of himself in the gas chamber at the Auschwitz concentration camp after receiving a tsunami of backlash.

He also posted a video last year suggesting people will “force the government to open” after emergency stay-at-home orders to stem the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as a video of him next to what appeared to be a campfire saying he had “inside data” that the 2020 election was compromised. He tweeted last October that his wife has the “gift of premonition” and that she had dreamt that “federal squads” had broken into their home to seize guns, knives and “unauthorized foods.”

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