Trump campaign adviser touts anti-Semitic conspiracy theory hours before now-canceled RNC speech
On the same day she was scheduled to speak at the Republican National Convention, Mary Ann Mendoza, a mother whose child was killed by an undocumented immigrant who also serves on the Trump re-election campaign's advisory board, promoted an anti-Semitic Twitter thread composed by a QAnon conspiracy theorist. The RNC later pulled Mendoza's speech from Tuesday's schedule.
The thread endorsed by Mendoza consisted of numerous anti-Semitic posts, many of which were centered on a non-existent "Jewish plot to enslave the world," The Daily Beast reports. The tweets falsely claimed the Rothschild family created a plot to terrorize and destroy non-Jewish people. It also referred to "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," a fabricated anti-Semitic text first published in Russia in the early 20th century that later became a popular hoax about Jewish world domination in Nazi Germany.
This woman isn't just an RNC speaker tonight. That would be insulting enough.
She's on the *Trump campaign's* advisory board.
And this is the anti-Semitic garbage she wants her followers to read. pic.twitter.com/J6PKBH1XnX
— Zack Beauchamp (@zackbeauchamp) August 25, 2020
Mendoza eventually deleted the tweet, claiming she didn't read the whole thread. But the damage was done.
I retweeted a very long thread earlier without reading every post within the thread. My apologies for not paying attention to the intent of the whole message. That does not reflect my feelings or personal thoughts whatsoever.
— Angel Mom Mary Ann MendozaTEXT EMPOWER TO 88022 (@mamendoza480) August 25, 2020
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