“A political appointee at the Department of Health and Human Services shared an image in 2017 that said “our forefathers would have hung” Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for treason, a CNN KFile review has found.
Ximena Barreto is a far-right political pundit who in December 2017 joined the Trump administration as deputy director of communications at the department.
Barreto was placed on leave by the department on Monday after the liberal watchdog Media Matters reported that Barreto called Islam “a cult” and pushed the false Pizzagate conspiracy theory, which alleged that Clinton was part of a child-sex ring based in part at a Washington, DC, pizza restaurant.
A subsequent KFile review of her Twitter account “RepublicanChick” found that Barreto also repeatedly used the hashtag #BanIslam and twice shared conspiracy theories about the death of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich. Barreto also shared a conspiracy theory that French President Emmanuel Macron was controlled by the Rothschild family and that Clinton and Obama were controlled by investor and Democratic mega-donor George Soros. Both the Rothschilds and Soros are frequent targets of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories.
On Barack Obama
In May of 2017, Barreto retweeted an image saying the “our forefathers would have hung” Clinton and Obama for treason.
In August of 2017 Barreto retweeted an image of a statue of Obama labeling him “a Muslim terrorist.”
In January of 2017, Barreto wrote in a tweet that Obama was a “pansy and a traitor.”
Kook indeed, but I cannot help but draw serious parallels to things said on Politics1 by someone we all know, back when they were an anonymous official at the Department of Transportation.
Mormons were a “cult.” Bush and Cheney were war criminals who deserved execution, etc. And that was about the Administration he drew a paycheck from.
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Another Right Wing kook
Kook indeed, but I cannot help but draw serious parallels to things said on Politics1 by someone we all know, back when they were an anonymous official at the Department of Transportation.
Mormons were a “cult.” Bush and Cheney were war criminals who deserved execution, etc. And that was about the Administration he drew a paycheck from.