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muriel_volestrangler

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19. Accepts congrats from neo-Nazi Charlottesville leader; anti-semitism,flat earth and 9/11 truther too
Thu Sep 17, 2020, 10:00 AM
Sep 2020
With her victory still just hours old, the newest Republican Senate nominee publicly thanked a white nationalist leader who marched in the “Unite the Right” rally and has questioned the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust.




It’s not just Fuentes with whom Witzke communicates. She also is regularly in contact with anti-Semitic and white nationalist figures in the “America First” faction of the pro-Trump right. Witzke has posted racist messages of her own on social media, calling Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Ilhan Omar (D-MN) “third world” and “tards.”
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In interviews she’s given to other media outlets and podcasts, Witzke has claimed to have worked for Mexican drug cartels or “cartel families” as a “low-end drug-runner” or drug dealer transporting drugs between Detroit and Tennessee.
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But Witzke’s interest in conspiracy theories doesn’t stop with QAnon, judging by her Pinterest account. Amid ideas for clothes and interior design, Witzke has tagged images purporting to explain the structures of the Illuminati, promoting various 9/11 conspiracy theories, claiming that the Sandy Hook shooting was staged, and even one, illustrated with Israeli flags, suggesting that the Jewish Rothschild family had advance warning of 9/11.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-qanon-allied-gop-candidate-lauren-witzke-also-pushed-anti-semitism-flat-earthism-and-911-conspiracies?ref=author

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Is GOP QAnon becoming a blonde ticket? bucolic_frolic Sep 2020 #1
That's what I also was thinking............... turbinetree Sep 2020 #2
And an admitted former drug runner for the Mexican drug cartel! woodsprite Sep 2020 #14
I don't know what the hell is going on in my neighboring state Delaware BumRushDaShow Sep 2020 #3
It is strategy to carve out and expand alternative realities so they can drag policy into the space bucolic_frolic Sep 2020 #4
Little Delaware! BumRushDaShow Sep 2020 #6
Frankenstein candidates are technological innovation to them, for next time bucolic_frolic Sep 2020 #8
... BumRushDaShow Sep 2020 #9
Good news is they lose. jimfields33 Sep 2020 #5
Delaware is more purple though BumRushDaShow Sep 2020 #7
Wow. I thought the state was deep blue. jimfields33 Sep 2020 #10
Nooooooooooo BumRushDaShow Sep 2020 #11
Bill Maher showed she said she was a witch on his show, Nutso appalachiablue Sep 2020 #12
LOL BumRushDaShow Sep 2020 #13
Did he mean Witzke or O'Donnell. woodsprite Sep 2020 #15
O'Donnell, he had clips of her on earlier shows. Looney appalachiablue Sep 2020 #16
Looney is a good word. Sadly, I didn't get to putting witch hats on her signs when she ran. nt woodsprite Sep 2020 #18
Her nickname in DE seems to be "Whackjob Barbie". woodsprite Sep 2020 #17
Accepts congrats from neo-Nazi Charlottesville leader; anti-semitism,flat earth and 9/11 truther too muriel_volestrangler Sep 2020 #19
There are career politicians who would give anything to have Chris Coons opponents historically n/m RhodeIslandOne Sep 2020 #20
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