08-31-2018, 08:25 PM
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Reformed Know-Nothing
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: MoCo, MD
Posts: 25,908
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Originally Posted by Rajoo
Fresh off 'monkey this up,' DeSantis forced to quit moderating racist Facebook group
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He wasn't the only one.
Five Republican candidates vying for seats in the U.S. House and Senate in November's midterms appear to be current or former administrators of a far-right Facebook group that has pushed debunked conspiracy theories and made racially charged posts about Muslims and black people.
The Facebook group, Tea Party, has nearly 95,000 members. Its description reads: “Please add your friends to the oldest and largest #TeaParty group on Facebook. We proudly stand with President Trump and his America First agenda!”
The group has a history of pushing far-right conspiracy theories, such as Pizzagate, the debunked theory that Hillary Clinton and other Democratic officials ran a child sex trafficking ring out of a Washington, D.C., pizza shop; last year’s white nationalist Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia; which members of the group have falsely claimed was “orchestrated by the left”; and the murder of Seth Rich, a former Democratic National Committee employee whom far-right followers have falsely asserted was murdered by a Democratic operative to help Hillary Clinton.
https://www.newsweek.com/republican-...cebook-1099744
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