Shooter was a Dem...?

[imax2268]

Sorry if this was posted already, tried a search but unfortunately I can't use that function.

So I have seen on Social Media that people, well maybe right wing conspiracy nuts, are saying that the shooter was a member of Antifa, a Democrat, that he posed in a MAGA hat but wasn't a trump supporter...etc...most of my searches for this info have turned up nothing but far right wing websites and blogs so that has me a bit suspicious...

Has anyone come across this stuff and is there any reliable info out there that may prove this to be untrue...?

I know I shouldn't get wrapped up with these people but now curiosity has gotten the best of me, and to be honest, it's great proving them wrong.

[jpak]

1. He's a Trumpster just like the gun humping GOP goons that made that shit up

yup

[underpants]

6. MAGA Hat

More here
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210230467

and here

https://heavy.com/news/2018/02/nikolas-cruz-maga-nikolaus-trump-politics-democrat-republican/

[imax2268]

10. Thanks...

the article you linked to said that the person they are claiming is him was born in a different month of the same year and lived in a different area, plus the name was spelled different...so there's that...

[underpants]

14. They come out in droves to deflect and obscure

No amout of time or evidence deters them. I still see FB posts about completely made up BS from the Clinton murders to BENGHAZI.

[MrsCoffee]

2. No. They were pointing to someone who didn't live in that town but had a similar name.

[imax2268]

3. ok...

that's what I was thinking, but like I said, any search that I did came back with no other info but right wing websites and blogs...

When asked to provide a source to their claims, they just respond with their favorite comeback..."Google it"...

[demmiblue]

4. Pro-tip: don't get your news from Infowars. n/t

[imax2268]

5. never...

...

[herding cats]

7. About as real as them saying he was a Dreamer.

They’re grasping at any and every fantasy they can to try and squirm out from under this mess that’s in their laps.

[get the red out]

8. Just the opposite, according to the AP

Link to tweet

[underpants]

16. Ouch

Glad you posted that. Otherwise I'd have probably never heard it (MSM).

[mreilly]

9. No. This happens EVERY SINGLE TIME

... after each and every mass shooting the right-wingers fall all over themselves to spread as much BS as possible that the shooter was some leftist, antifa, voted for Hillary, etc. etc.

Just part and parcel of their endless, absolutely constant lies and attempts to deflect blame away from their side.

[uponit7771]

11. Nope, just reported he was part of white supremacist group

If Cruz’s role is confirmed, the Parkland school shooting would be the second school shooting by a white supremacist in the past two months. In December 2017, another young white supremacist, William Atchison, engaged in a shooting spree at a high school in northwest New Mexico, killing two students before shooting himself.

https://www.adl.org/blog/florida-white-supremacist-group-admits-ties-to-alleged-parkland-school-shooter-nikolas-cruz

[NewJeffCT]

12. As soon as ANY mass shooting hits the mass media

Right Wingers ALWAYS immediately say that the shooter is a Democrat/Leftist/Liberal...claiming some fabricated evidence.

99 times out of 100, that's debunked within a few hours.

The next day, Alex Jones will then claim that it's a FALSE FLAG operation conducted by the left.

[Gothmog]

13. The shooter wore a MAGA hat

Of course the asshole conservatives will be making this claim

[WhiteTara]

15. Yeah, right.

Yesterday it was an illegal Mexican immigrant. Anything but the truth that it was a white male domestic terrorist who was greatly influenced by Trump and wore a MAGA hat. I'll bet he hit his mother.

[ck4829]

17. They were saying that even before they knew his name.

That's what they do.