A speaker for the Republican National Convention retweeted an anti-Semitic screed on Tuesday morning, the same day she was slated to take the stage to praise President Donald Trump’s hard-line immigration policies.
Mary Ann Mendoza, who is teed up to talk about her police officer son who was killed in a car crash, shared the Twitter messages, writing, “Do yourself a favor and read this thread.” The thread includes nearly every anti-Semitic trope of the last century to portray a Jewish cabal set on taking over American government. It includes a link to “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” a racist text that was popular in Nazi Germany. The Daily Beast first reported on Mendoza’s tweet.
On Tuesday evening, an hour before the televised portion of the convention was to begin, the tweet disappeared from Mendoza’s Twitter account.
Mendoza was selected to talk about immigration as a so-called “angel parent” — the highly controversial label given to people whose children were killed by undocumented immigrants. Her son was reportedly killed in a car crash involving an undocumented immigrant who was driving under the influence of alcohol.
“President Donald Trump is the FIRST political leader we’ve ever seen take on the radical Left to finally secure our border and to end illegal immigration since day one,” she is scheduled to say, according to pre-released remarks from the convention’s organizers. “I’ve met him many times and I know what’s in his heart. I know what he hopes and dreams for this country.”
Spokespeople for the convention and the Trump campaign did not respond to requests for comment. They did not answer whether Mendoza would still be speaking Tuesday evening.
A handful of speakers at the convention have been recently exposed for making racist comments. Vice reported earlier Tuesday that an anti-abortion activist, Abby Johnson, had said recently that it would be “smart” for police to racially profile her son, saying that, “statistically, my brown son is more likely to commit a violent offense over my white sons.”
Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican House nominee and avid QAnon conspiracy theorist, announced on Tuesday that she had been invited to attend Trump’s nomination acceptance speech at the White House on Thursday. Trump congratulated Greene shortly after her primary win in Georgia and called her a “future Republican star.”
QAnon has been labeled a potential domestic terrorist threat by the FBI, and a number of prominent Republicans denounced the theory as evil. It claims Trump and an anonymous government agent are working against a deep-state cabal of pedophiles in Washington.
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