Trump's pick for Arizona secretary of state suggested Covid didn't exist and called vaccine a crime

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NEW w/Drew Myers: Mark Finchem, Trump's pick to be Arizona's next secretary of state, spread dangerous misinfo about Covid-19, calling the vaccine a "crime against humanity" &"deadly gene therapy & sharing a post last year suggesting Covid didn't exist

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Trump's pick for Arizona secretary of state suggested Covid didn't exist and called vaccine a...
Mark Finchem, the Arizona secretary of state candidate backed by former President Donald Trump, spread dangerous misinformation about the Covid-19 pandemic on social media, calling the vaccine a...
3:15 PM · Feb 16, 2022

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/16/politics/trump-mark-finchem-arizona-secetary-state-kfile/index.html

(CNN)Mark Finchem, the Arizona secretary of state candidate backed by former President Donald Trump, spread dangerous misinformation about the Covid-19 pandemic on social media, calling the vaccine a "crime against humanity," implying it was a "bio-weapon" and sharing an article last August that suggested Covid-19 did not exist in the Canadian province of Alberta.

A CNN KFile review of Finchem's social media postings on platforms popular with the extreme right wing found that he repeatedly promoted anti-vaccine rhetoric and other false claims about possible Covid-19 treatments, the efficacy of mask-wearing and the severity of the virus.

In August 2021, Finchem shared a story riddled with misinformation on the coronavirus and vaccine on the platform Gab -- a social media network popular with conservatives, the alt-right and some extremists -- writing, "It ain't a vaccine!!! Call it what it is, a crime against humanity."

Finchem also shared an image last August falsely claiming that a province in Canada had lifted its Covid protocols because "they can't produce an isolated sample of SARS-CoV-2 to prove covid exists to back their mandates."

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He is also a January 6th insurrectionist and involved with the fake electors.

https://www.npr.org/2022/02/15/1080932901/gop-candidates-and-leaders-subpoenaed-as-jan-6-panel-dives-into-fake-electors-sc

He's an ambitious douchebag.