This GOP Congressman Just Suggested Charlottesville White Supremacist Rally Was Organized by ‘The Left’

Floats Lies and Conspiracy Theories: Jewish Man Who ‘Turned in His Own People to the Nazis’

Republican U.S. Congressman Paul Gosar of Arizona says he believes the violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville that left one woman dead was started by people on “the left,” including an “Obama sympathizer” and a Jewish man from Hungary who “turned in his own people to the Nazis.”

Gosar told Vice News, “let’s look at the person that actually started the rally” in Charlottesville.

“It’s come to our attention that this is a person from Occupy Wall Street that was an Obama sympathizer. So, wait a minute, be careful where you start taking these people to.”

That “Obama sympathizer,” according to Rep. Gosar, is Jason Kessler, who has been described as both a white nationalist and a white supremacist. He calls himself a “white advocate.” He’s also an alt-right supporter. 

And yes, according to Charlottesville’s 125-year old newspaper The Daily Progress, “one of Kessler’s childhood friends, David Caron, said Kessler previously had identified as a Democrat, but became disillusioned when he started thinking that there was no place for him in a party that has focused its efforts on embracing diversity and minority issues.”

“I like Trump more than I did Obama,” he wrote on Nov. 6. “My Trump enthusiasm is through the roof. I like people who push the edge.”

In other words, he’s not a Democrat.

Gosar’s other insane allegation, that another organizer of the Charlottesville rally “turned in his own people to the Nazis” is just plain disgusting.

That person, according to Gosar, is of course one of the people conservatives hate more than any other: George Soros. Ask most liberals about George Soros, and chances are they won’t know who he is or anything about him. As a conservative and he is the Devil on earth.

“And look at the background,” of the rally’s organizers, Gosar continues. “You know, you know George Soros is one of those people that actually helps back these individuals. Who is he? I think he’s from Hungary. I think he was Jewish. And I think he turned in his own people to the Nazis. Better be careful where we go with those.”

Asked point-blank, “Do you think George Soros funded the neo-Nazis who marched in Charlottesville?” Gosar offered a cagey response: “Wouldn’t it be interesting to find out?”

Vice News notes, “Charlottesville conspiracy theories about George Soros have been promoted by Alex Jones. They’re false. Soros is a billionaire investor who funds various liberal causes and is a major Democratic donor. He was born in Hungary in 1930, so he was 14 in 1944. Soros is Jewish, and his father had him pretend to be Christian to escape being killed in the Holocaust. Conspiracy theorists have manipulated this fact to falsely claim that Soros turned in thousands of fellow Jews to the Nazis.”

Remember, this is a U.S. Congressman, floating outright lies and conspiracy theories about a violent rally that left one person dead, tore America apart, and became part of the national conversation for a month.

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