Carl Paladino Denies Posting Mass Shooting False Flag Claims: “I Don’t Even Know How To Post On Facebook”

The Buffalo News reports:

A post on congressional candidate Carl P. Paladino’s Facebook page repeated conspiracy theories about the recent mass shootings in Buffalo and Texas, linking them to the kind of “false flag” ideas that claim government involvement in similar tragedies.

Paladino, who has been accused of racism for a history of inflammatory statements, denied any knowledge of the conspiracy allegation, for which there is no evidence or proof. He said he did not add the piece to his Facebook page and that he has no idea how it got there.

“That wasn’t me,” he said late Tuesday. “I told my secretary to remove it. It was just terrible and I would never write something like that. I don’t even know how to post on Facebook.”

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As I reminded you yesterday, Carl Paladino has a long sordid history of viciously racist and anti-LGBTQ comments, perhaps most notably when he called Michelle Obama a male gorilla who should be “let loose in the outback of Zimbabwe to live in a cave.”

Paladino was Trump’s 2016 New York state campaign chair and has been endorsed by Rep. Elise Stefanik.

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— The Buffalo News (@TheBuffaloNews) June 7, 2022