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Arizona GOP Senate candidate Kelli Ward grants the primaries on an election night on August 28, 2018 in Scottsdale, Arizona. (Photo by Ralph Freso / Getty Images)
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Arizona Republican Party President Kelli Ward shared a tweet from an account filled with white racist content and conspiracy theories on Monday night.
Ward retweeted a violent video that appears to show a white child being savagely beaten by an older child with a darker complexion, with the caption “To school your children”.
“Hateful and violent predators are on the loose in our public schools. And ‘the system’ is once again putting innocent children at risk. ” she tweeted a quote.
The original tweet came from Dan Lyman, who describes himself as “pure blood” in his Twitter bio and has a pinned tweet of a shirtless man who happens to be him at the top of the account with the caption “Summer of White Boy has officially begun. ” . “
Lyman’s Twitter account is a cascade of violent videos, mostly of blacks attacking whites, while apparently trying to paint a crisis of violence against whites in the United States, as well as white supremacy content.Nick Fuentes and right-wing conspiracy theorists. like Mike Cernovich.
“No, I will not stop exposing the brutality against whites. Maybe if others hadn’t turned a blind eye for so long, things would have changed. But here we are. Time for a change. “Lyman tweeted minutes after the video was sent which Ward retweeted a few hours later.
Ward is no stranger to racist content, nor does he dabble in conspiracy theories.
She was a major proponent of the claim that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump, was one of Trump’s bogus voters in the state, and openly endorsed Arizona’s partisan election “audit”, the which led to a subpoena from the Justice Department while investigating Trump’s bogus election plan.
He also suggested that the January 6 Capitol uprising was a false flag operation; fueled COVID-19 disinformation; planned a bus tour with Cernovich, one of the main promoters of the Pizzagate conspiracy theory that called diversity “white genocide”; and he embraced the endorsement of then-Iowa racist Steve King, just to name a few surprising moments.
Ward called a 2014 city hall meeting when she was a state senator to discuss concerns about “chemtrails,” the conspiracy theory that aircraft contrails actually release dangerous chemicals on people (although she later said not to believe the conspiracy theory).
This earned him the derisive nickname “chemtrails Kelli” by allies of Republican Senator John McCain, whom he unsuccessfully challenged in the 2016 Republican primary for the Senate.
The chemtrail theory was popularized by right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who had Ward on his show as a regular guest, including during the 2016 primary, where he said he feared McCain’s allies might attempt to assassinate her. . .
“I’ve had people tell me that I should have an automatic starter in my car, that I should never start my car. I really hope things haven’t gotten so out of control that I fear for my life. But we are very cautious and I always have people around me who give me confidence, which is great. It makes me feel very safe and comfortable whenever I go out and talk to people, “he told Jones.
Lyman is also a huge Alex Jones fan. His recently released 9/11 conspiracy content includes a video of Jones, which Lyman clearly loves. Another recent tweet answers the question “Who exactly do American monarchists expect as kings?” by posting a picture of Jones.
And it also fueled 9/11 conspiracy theories, declaring that “9/11 was an inside job” a few days ago, on the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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