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TexasTowelie

(116,804 posts)
Mon Aug 21, 2017, 04:29 AM Aug 2017

East Idaho rep. says its 'plausible' Obama staged Charlottesville riots

Idaho Falls Rep. Bryan Zollinger took to Facebook on Friday, re-posting a conspiracy theory suggesting that last weekend’s events in Charlottesville, Va., could have been an inside job orchestrated to smear President Donald Trump.

The post, written on a site called The American Thinker, is replete with wild, unevidenced claims couched in what-ifs.

“The conflagration in Charlottesville is beginning to feel like a set-up, perhaps weeks or months in the planning,” the author wrote.

In a comment, Zollinger called the blog post “completely plausible.”

Read more here: http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article168173127.html

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East Idaho rep. says its 'plausible' Obama staged Charlottesville riots (Original Post) TexasTowelie Aug 2017 OP
Please, nobody suggest this idiocy to Trump! Rhiannon12866 Aug 2017 #1
Please don't repost this anywhere vlyons Aug 2017 #2
I don't understand this... DetlefK Aug 2017 #3
Did he secure the tiki torches for them as well? Zambero Sep 2017 #4

vlyons

(10,252 posts)
2. Please don't repost this anywhere
Mon Aug 21, 2017, 05:00 AM
Aug 2017

Stop spreading these stupid conspiracy theories. Someone skinhead with low IQ might believe it and spread it further.

DetlefK

(16,455 posts)
3. I don't understand this...
Mon Aug 21, 2017, 05:16 AM
Aug 2017

What was the conspiracy?

Even if it had been an agent provocateur who organized the rally, he didn't force anyone to chant Nazi-slogans. The protesters did this all by themselves.

And if the WHOLE rally was a false-flag operation, this means that dozens and hundreds of well-known white supremacists would have to be fakes.

Zambero

(9,764 posts)
4. Did he secure the tiki torches for them as well?
Wed Sep 27, 2017, 12:32 PM
Sep 2017

I knew those so-called white supremacists were plausible liberals all along!



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