Rolling Stone reports:
Nick Fuentes — the young white supremacist who also bemoans “white genocide,” leads the Groyper movement online, and organizes the annual America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC) — took to his Telegram channel as news of the killings broke to immediately (and without evidence) insist it was a “false flag” attack.
Arizona state senator Wendy Rogers — a member of the Oath Keepers who has appeared at Fuentes’ AFPAC conference — made a similar claim, conspiratorially suggesting Gendron was a government agent. “Fed boy summer has started in Buffalo,” Rogers wrote in a Telegram post.
Mike Cernovich, the onetime Pizzagate conspiracy theorist who has tweeted that “diversity is code for white genocide,” labored to paint Gendron as an ideological foe of the right, an environmentalist Nazi who fell under “demonic influence.”
Mediaite reports:
A short recap of Rogers’ not-so-greatest hits includes posting an anti-Semitic meme on her Gab and Telegram accounts hours before she spoke at the White nationalist AFPAC conference, getting censured by fellow Republicans in the Arizona Senate, and praising Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.
In another tweet, she pushed to celebrate Confederate generals on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day days after speaking at a rally for former President Donald Trump, and a raging tweet storm she called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a “globalist puppet for Soros and the Clintons.”
Racist Republican lawmaker claims white supremacist Buffalo shooting was a false flag. https://t.co/cmD6GAAPmm
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) May 15, 2022
Trump-endorsed AZ Gov candidate Kari Lake, proudly touting her endorsement from Wendy Rogers, who said the Buffalo mass shooting was a false flag operation conducted by the FBI. pic.twitter.com/4XzU5BXWFJ
— Ron Filipkowski ?? (@RonFilipkowski) May 15, 2022
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey helped get Wendy Rogers elected in 2020. When asked a few months ago about her embrace of white nationalism, Ducey told reporters it was better than having a Democrat in office. https://t.co/keUXqa00MY
— Nick Martin (@nickmartin) May 15, 2022
Arizona GOP Legislator Wendy Rogers Suggests Buffalo Shooter Was a Fed in Deranged Conspiracy Theory https://t.co/vCR849kGOz
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) May 15, 2022
In July, Wendy Rogers posted a tweet about immigration that said, “We are being replaced and invaded.” She was quickly called out by a Jewish group in Arizona, whose director called it “thinly-veiled hate speech.” https://t.co/B8dM9bshGM
— Nick Martin (@nickmartin) May 15, 2022