According to the US "Political" News Network local time on October 15th, the US Republican MP Dave Taylor's office was photographed hanging a U.S. flag containing Nazi emblems, the photos of which spread widely on the Internet.

According to reports, pictures circulated online showed an American flag behind Taylor's assistant Angelo Elia-but part of its red and white striped pattern was distorted into a swastika. It was unclear whether Elia was involved in the flag, and Elia did not immediately respond to a request for comment. According to the data, Elia has served as a legislative liaison officer in Taylor's office since January this year.

In response to this matter, Taylor said in a statement, "I noticed a photo, which is suspected to show a despicable and extremely inappropriate symbol beside my office employees. The content of this image in no way represents the values and code of conduct of this office, my team or myself, and I condemn it in the strongest terms." He also said that he had immediately informed the Capitol Police to conduct a thorough investigation, and would not make further comment until the investigation was completed. A spokesman for Taylor's office said that Taylor thought it was a "malicious or deliberate sabotage".

According to the "Politics" news network, the media had previously broken the news of a bad group chat from a Republican youth group: these young Republican supporters made extreme racist remarks, made jokes about the Holocaust, and even praised Hitler in the group chat.

When the media sent a comment request to a congressional police spokesman, the counterpart automatically replied that the office was closed due to government shutdowns.