.thereidout Blog: Arizona lawmaker's deranged conspiracy theory about Buffalo shooting sparks investigation
On Monday, Arizona’s Senate Ethics Committee opened an investigation to determine whether one of Rogers’ social media posts responding toon Saturday was “inappropriate of an elected official with this body.”
Arizona state Sen. Rick Gray, another Republican, made the motion to investigate Rogers’ post on Monday after a Democrat-led effort to expel her from the Legislature failed.Immediately following the massacre, which left 10 people dead, Rogers posted on the social media platform Telegram what looked like a conspiracy theory alleging the shooting had been staged by the government.
— whenever a mass shooting garners widespread attention. But in this case, Rogers’ conspiratorial drivel is particularly on-brand. It both downplays gun violenceThe Arizona Senate censured Rogers in March for a speech she delivered to a white nationalist conference organized by far-right extremist Nick Fuentes earlier this year.at one point during her virtual address, according to The Arizona Mirror. She reportedly said Fuentes was “standing up to tyranny” with his white nationalist group.
Rogers is no stranger to political extremism. She hitched her political fortunes to a deranged conservative movement — as her Telegram post about Buffalo shows — and has cast herself as one of its matriarchs. But a “sweet grandma” she is not. Clearly.
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