Gosar strikes again after the Texas shooting, proving (again) that he's unfit for office

Arizona’s reigning king of disinformation, Rep. Paul Gosar, has struck again.

While the civilized world was mourning the massacre of school children and their teachers on Tuesday evening, Rep. Paul Gosar was already up on his high horse, using the shooter to advance on two fronts in the far right’s culture wars.

Gosar announced to the world that the alleged shooter, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, was “a transsexual leftist illegal alien.”

Hey, Rep. Gosar, you missed a spot. Why not throw in that he was a Soros-backed socialist?

Of course, the pride of Arizona had no evidence to back up his claim that the shooter is transsexual. Or a leftist. Or in the country illegally.

But when did that ever stop him? (See: his stolen election tweets and his Jan 6 tweets.)

Gosar had no evidence to say those things

Gosar is a gossip of the worst kind – one who delights in distorting the facts to fit his own warped view of the world. (See: His proclamation that Jan. 6 assaulter Ashli Babbitt was “executed”.)

On Tuesday evening, he saw photos circulating in right-wing circles, taken from a Reddit account belonging to a transgender person who isn’t Ramos, and decided it was his congressional duty to immediately spread them far and wide on Twitter.

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I’d say it was shocking but it’s no more so than his speech on Jan 6, 2021, when he stood on the floor of the U.S. House and pronounced Arizona’s election stolen.

“Over 400,000 mail-in ballots were altered, switched from President Trump to Vice President Biden or completely erased from President Trump's total,” Gosar flatly said, without so much as a shred of evidence that it was so.

Just as there is not so much as a shred of evidence that Ramos was a transexual, or a leftist, or an “illegal alien.”

What Ramos was, according to the Washington Post, was an extremely troubled young man who’d been bullied all his life and become increasingly violent – one who was able to walk into a gun store just days before the shooting and buy himself a present for his 18th birthday: a pair of assault-style rifles.

5 sad truths about Gosar, shootings

Two things are true, today.

One, is that America’s next massacre is just around the corner. It took only 10 days after Buffalo for Uvalde to happen.

And two: Gosar won’t be interested in any discussion about what Congress might do to at least try to cut down on the coming body count.

Actually, five things are true.

Three: The congressman – already censured for his sick anime video in which he shows himself killing a congresswoman and threatening the president – has shown himself, yet again, to be completely unfit for office.

Four: Not a single Republican leader in this state will denounce him.

And the fifth thing that is true? He'll be re-elected in a landslide.

Reach Roberts at laurie.roberts@arizonarepublic.com. Follow her on Twitter at @LaurieRoberts.

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This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: Rep. Paul Gosar's Texas shooting tweet proves he's unfit to serve