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Mon Aug 14, 2017, 10:28 AM Aug 2017

"Conservative" says leftists faked Chalottesville violence... [View all]

She cites a Alex Jones "reporter," to boot.

Sylvia Thompson: Violence In Charlottesville Was Staged By Fascists Leftists And Deep State Operatives
By Kyle Mantyla | August 14, 2017 10:23 am

During a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, this past weekend, an alt-right activist rammed his car into a group of counter-protesters, killing one and injuring dozens more.
But that is not how black conservative writer Sylvia Thompson saw things, writing in a new column on BarbWire.com that the white nationalist marchers were peaceful but had been infiltrated by “deep state operatives,” meaning that any violence was “a staged effort by fascist leftists” to “scuttle President Trump’s efforts on behalf” of whites who are facing a “direct attack on their existence”:

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/sylvia-thompson-violence-in-charlottesville-was-staged-by-fascists-leftists-and-deep-state-operatives/

This is Sylvia Thompson.

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