Mastriano To Campaign With “Rape Melania” Extremist

Media Matters reports:

Pennsylvania gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano is scheduled to do a campaign event with far-right commentator Jack Posobiec this weekend. Posobiec has collaborated with white nationalists and neo-Nazis and targeted Jewish people with antisemitic hate.

Several media outlets have accurately noted Posobiec’s history of extremism when writing about him. For instance:

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution wrote that he’s “a TV pundit associated with white supremacy and Nazism. … Jewish groups and media observers pointed out that Posobiec promotes conspiracy theories and once associated with white supremacists.”

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In 2020, Posobiec appeared on JMG when he claimed that Black Lives Matter activists had placed pipe bombs on the National Mall, a claim DC police said was false.

The following month the SPLC published a lengthy report linking Posobiec to white supremacist groups and neo-Nazis. Posobiec currently works a host for OAN.

He first gained national headlines when he and Laura Loomer disrupted a Shakespeare play in Central Park and is perhaps best known for promoting the Pizzagate conspiracy.

@JackPosobiec pic.twitter.com/tOPpbZNhIO

— Doug Mastriano (@dougmastriano) September 21, 2022

Jack Posobiec held up a “RAPE MELANIA” sign at Trump Tower. pic.twitter.com/fNbGtqfiVX

— Realignment Politics (@politicsrea) June 17, 2022

here’s rnc chairwoman ronna mcdaniel giving an interview to conspiracy theorist jack posobiec, who has ties to white supremacists and once held up a sign saying “rape melania” to try and blame it on democrats pic.twitter.com/cSUlOdN977

— Oliver Willis (@owillis) September 21, 2020