Gosar Dodges Questions About Event with White Nationalist
By JOHN MCCORMACK
“The Corner” at National Review
June 30, 2021 5:39 PM
As David Harsanyi noted yesterday, Arizona Republican congressman Paul Gosar responded to reports that a notorious racist and anti-Semite was hosting a fundraiser for him by tweeting that the left wouldn’t dictate his “strategy, alliances and efforts.”
Later in the day, Gosar cast doubt on whether the fundraiser was happening at all:
Manu Raju
Just asked why he’s appearing with a white supremacist, Gosar said: “I have no idea what’s going on.”He added: “There’s no fundraiser that I know of on Friday.”
I asked him if he would appear with Fuentes at all, and he didn’t answer directly.
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Denver Riggleman
@RepRiggleman
· Jun 28
A sitting member of Congress fundraising with AFPAC. That’s where we are. And he sits on committees.This is from a Telegram channel linked to Nick Fuentes. Telegram is a conspiracy & white nationalist fantasy land—that’s where Gosar hangs evidently.
Just asked why he’s appearing with a white supremacist, Gosar said: “I have no idea what’s going on.”
He added: “There’s no fundraiser that I know of on Friday.”
I asked him if he would appear with Fuentes at all, and he didn’t answer directly.
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Denver Riggleman
@RepRiggleman
· Jun 28
A sitting member of Congress fundraising with AFPAC. That’s where we are. And he sits on committees.This is from a Telegram channel linked to Nick Fuentes. Telegram is a conspiracy & white nationalist fantasy land—that’s where Gosar hangs evidently.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E5AzdgqWQAAW7yC?format=jpg&name=small
Whatever happens with the fundraiser, Gosar’s tweet and his decision to speak at a conference organized by Nick Fuentes in February have made it abundantly clear he wants an alliance with racists and anti-Semites.
And lest there be any doubt about Fuentes, here’s a sampling of his rhetoric:
[Fuentes] once called a writer a “race traitor” because he “work[s] for Jews.” He opposes interracial marriage and has praised segregation.
“Enough with the Jim Crow stuff. Who cares? Oh, they had to drink out of a different water fountain, big f***ing deal. Oh no, they had to go to a different school,” Fuentes said in one video. “It’s better for them, it’s better for us.”
“I’m getting really sick of world Jewry — that’s what it is! what it is! — running the show, and we can’t talk about it,” he said in another video.
In yet another video, he joyfully promoted grotesque claims denying that millions of Jews were murdered in the Holocaust. Smirking and laughing, he read a question from a viewer who was obviously comparing murdered Jews to cookies and Adolph Hitler to Cookie Monster: “If I take one hour to cook a batch of cookies, and Cookie Monster has fifteen hours working every day for five years, how long does it take Cookie Monster to make six million batches of cookies?”
“The math doesn’t seem to add up there,” Fuentes says. “Maybe two-hundred to three-hundred thousand cookies,” he adds before making several more references to bits of propaganda cited by Holocaust deniers.
Fuentes attended the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017. The night before the rally, white nationalists and neo-Nazis carrying torches chanted “You will not replace us!” and “Jews will not replace us!” During the rally itself, a white-nationalist terrorist murdered a counterprotester named Heather Heyer with his car.
Hours after the terrorist attack had occurred, Fuentes wrote on Facebook that the Unite the Right rally was “incredible.” “You will not replace us,” he said. “The rootless transnational elite knows that a tidal wave of white identity is coming.”
Democratic Socialist Dave says
Let me repost here the [Wisconsin State] Journal–[Milwaukee] Sentinel editorial against Ron Johnson (via Huff Post via Yahoo! News)
Wisconsin Republican Ron Johnson is “not fit to be your senator,” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel declared in a stinging editorial published Wednesday.
The newspaper’s editorial board listed Johnson’s “long history of misleading claims” — including his “anti-science crusade” of sowing doubt on the COVID-19 vaccine and health measures aimed at mitigating the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, his downplaying of climate change, and his amplification of ex-President Donald Trump’s 2020 election lies.
Johnson is “the most irresponsible representative of Wisconsin citizens since the infamous Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy in the 1950s,” the editorial declared.
He “continues to put his own interests ahead of yours. He continues to put himself first and democracy second,” it concluded. “And he continues to show why he is not fit to be your senator.”
Read the full editorial here.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/opinion/2021/06/30/ron-johnsons-anti-science-crusade-harms-wisconsin-vaccination-drive/7802794002/
bdog says
SO who is the Winner…Gosar, Johnson or Trump cause well his organization and his money man just got knocked??? Sometimes if your shit stinks. you have to lay low…becoming president is the least of being low I know…
If he never became president this indictment never happens against him and his organization…
Scott P says
I’ll use this thread to praise Ron DeSantis. Something I thought I’d never do. He praised President Biden today for his help in the Surfside condo tragedy.
Still not a chance in hell I’d ever vote for him. But he’s taking a risk with the rabid pro Trump base of the GOP.
Democratic Socialist Dave says
Look what happened to Chris Christie.
jamesb says
Ys Scott…
He did the Right Thing…,
But DSD warning stands
The image i have on the bottom of the post IS sure to haunt him politically in the fiture