Questions about vetting
Seung Min Kim
August 26, 2020 at 11:13 a.m. EDT
The Republican Party’s choreographed coronation of President Trump at its convention this week was quickly upended Tuesday by controversial remarks — both new and in the past — by its speakers, including one who encouraged her Twitter followers to read an anti-Semitic QAnon conspiracy theory.
The missteps — particularly the speaking role assigned to Mary Ann Mendoza, whose appearance at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday night was abruptly canceled — served as another distraction to the GOP’s four-day political festivities this week and raised concerns about how rigorously the speakers were vetted by party and campaign officials before the convention ...
Marjorie Taylor Greene, the QAnon supporter who is now the Republican nominee in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, ... Tuesday .. tweeted an invitation from the White House to attend the president’s formal convention address from the Rose Garden ... She disclosed the invite on the same day CNN reported that she has spread the false “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory that led to a shooting at a D.C. pizza restaurant ...
Lauren Boebert, the Republican nominee for a competitive House seat in Colorado, also tweeted Tuesday that she has been invited to attend Trump’s speech on Thursday. Boebert has signaled that she is open to the QAnon conspiracy theory ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gop-faces-questions-about-vetting-after-abruptly-canceling-convention-speaker-who-promoted-anti-semitic-tweet/2020/08/25/d9349b52-e730-11ea-97e0-94d2e46e759b_story.html
