Gosar Claims Texas Shooter Was “Trans Illegal Alien”

May 25, 2022 Extremists, Republicans

The Huffington Post reports:

Extremist Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Arizona) deleted a disturbing and offensive tweet Tuesday that falsely claimed the gunman who killed more than 20 people at a Texas school was a “transsexual leftist illegal alien.”

The lawmaker wrote the message in response to a Twitter user who wondered if the shooter was a member of the far-right, “the kind of trash that” Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Gosar “travel to speak to?” before deleting their tweet.

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This false “the shooter was trans” rumor going around the far-right is from a 4chan thread that links to a completely uninvolved person on Reddit who is still alive, doesn’t live in Texas, and obviously had nothing to do with the shooting. pic.twitter.com/Pevl6wqlRx

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) May 25, 2022

Deleted tweet by Gosar. He wasn’t trans. He wasn’t leftist. He wasn’t an illegal alien. The only thing Gosar got right was the name. Another in an endless list of despicable acts by Gosar. pic.twitter.com/ohM3STIOQG

— Ron Filipkowski ?? (@RonFilipkowski) May 25, 2022

I’m not even surprised that Republicans are spreading a false claim that the shooter in Texas is trans. It tracks with their policies which villify and harm trans people in the USA. The problem is never gun safety – it’s always something else. https://t.co/QwuSAS7KGV

— Cassandra Roxburgh (@cassroxburgh) May 25, 2022