A speaker who was scheduled to deliver remarks at the
Republican National Convention on Tuesday was abruptly removed from the program
after she retweeted a thread promoting an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory with
ties to the fringe conspiracy theory, QAnon.
Mary Ann Mendoza, whose police officer son was killed by a
drunk driver, had been included in a list of speakers sent by the Trump
campaign earlier Tuesday evening. An updated rundown circulated before the
convention, however, did not include Mendoza after her tweet garnered
significant scrutiny following a report by The Daily Beast.
Mendoza had tweeted, "Do yourself a favor and read this
thread" in reference to a string of conspiratorial tweets about a Jewish
plan to control the world. She later deleted the tweet and claimed that she
hadn't read "every post within the thread."
"My apologies for not paying attention to the intent of
the whole message," Mendoza said. "That does not reflect my feelings
or personal thoughts whatsoever."
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