Carl Paladino Now Admits Spreading False Flag Claims

Spectrum News NY reports:

Earlier this month, prospective congressional candidate Carl Paladino both shared on Facebook and sent in an email blast a post that invokes “false flag” conspiracy theories in connection to recent mass shootings in his hometown of Buffalo and Uvalde, Texas.

“I didn’t write it but did carelessly republish it without clearly reading it,” Paladino texted late Wednesday morning.

That’s a departure from comments he made to other media outlets, telling both WIVB and The Buffalo News previously that he did not know how the post got on his Facebook page. Paladino appeared to deactivate his account Tuesday.

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Paladino’s email also claims that the killers of JFK, John Lennon, and Martin Luther King Jr. were wrongly accused.

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.