White nationalist got a concrete sandwich. Republicans exploit the incident. |
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Whenever a Democrat or a person of color is a victim of violence, Republicans and conservatives "need proof" of this incident. When a Republican or a conservative is a victim of violence, they want you to take it as fact and want everyone to condemn it. If the story is proven to be a hoax, Republicans exploit it to the fullest.
We seen how its done.
Last night one of our canvassers wearing my T-shirt and a Desantis hat was brutally attacked by 4 animals who told him Republicans weren’t allowed in their neighborhood in #Hialeah #Florida
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) October 24, 2022
He suffered internal bleeding, a broken jaw & will need facial reconstructive surgery pic.twitter.com/36QpbySg58
Sen. Karen Rubio (R-FL) tweeted his support for "one of [the] canvassers" who was assaulted in Hialeah, Florida. Progressives point out the victim is a known white nationalist and agent provocateur.
An incident two weeks before the Midterms. Smells like an Ashley Todd.
She was a white woman who volunteered for John McCain failed presidential campaign.
She tried to trigger racial resentment by claiming a Black man attacked her in Pittsburgh after noticing she is a supporter of McCain and carved a backwards B in her face to make her a fan of Barack Obama. It happened two weeks before the election. The noise had promoted that for two days and had McCain and Mama Grizzly speak on it. It was revealed that she staged the incident.
Rubio shared photos Monday of a bloodied election canvasser who was beaten in South Florida while wearing one of his campaign shirts, an attack he alleged was politically motivated.
Rubio who facing a race against Rep. Val Demings (D-FL) is hoping to keep his senate seat.
I have the state in the LIKELY REPUBLICAN.
Demings can win this if you don't get your asses out to vote in Florida. I mean if the noise is what you want, vote for Republicans. But if you want to save democracy, improve the economy and protect rights, vote for the Democrats.
The Miami-Dade Police did confirm an incident happened between the white nationalist and another person. The Miami New Times and CBS 4 News in Miami identified the man as based on interviews with the president of the Miami Springs Republican Club and Hialeah Mayor Esteban Bovo.
The friends you keep. |
The white nationalist is a former member of the white nationalist group Florida League of the South, the New York Times reported. In 2017, he was charged with using a Confederate flag as a weapon during a dispute with protesters who wanted to rename streets in Hollywood named after Confederate commanders, The Associated Press reported.
Hey @marcorubio, is this your campaign staffer wearing the uniform of white supremacist group League Of The South at the deadly 2017 Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville, saying "They will not replace us"?
— Chad Loder (@chadloder) October 24, 2022
Who is the (((they))) he's referring to? https://t.co/pCP7qjdQPd pic.twitter.com/teT6yN51g1
Marco Rubio has a long history of associating with violent domestic extremist groups, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that his campaign staffers are tiki torch nazis who chant antisemitic slogans pic.twitter.com/1owtyow5V4
— Chad Loder (@chadloder) October 24, 2022
The family of nazi Christopher Monzรณn invited the press to interview him in the hospital, but when reporters arrived, members of the Proud Boys blocked their way and told them they could not enter. This story smells weirder and weirder https://t.co/lX6mQuxll6
— Chad Loder (@chadloder) October 25, 2022
Monzon was arrested in August 2017 after charging at a crowd with a Confederate flag during a Confederate street-name protest in Hollywood, according to a police report. What goes around.... pic.twitter.com/jG0OFB8ZR1
— LeAnne L (@sindereyla) October 24, 2022
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) at last night's rally on the Texas Trump caravan that menacingly surrounded Biden bus:
— The Recount (@therecount) November 2, 2020
"We love what they did, but here's the thing they don't know: We do that in Florida every day. I love seeing the boat parades ... We thank all the great patriots..." pic.twitter.com/kRaLcW60jn
This is the Marco Rubio canvasser who was attacked and hospitalized last night.
— Miami Against Fascism ๐๐ง (@MIAagainstFash) October 24, 2022
In 2017 Christopher Monzon was arrested and later plead guilty to aggravated assault when he attacked protesters with a confederate flag. He has a long history of advocating white supremacy. https://t.co/ATEUUgFB3U
if the canvasser was this guy, christopher monzon, then he got what he deserved ๐ https://t.co/s2S1bvrWnC pic.twitter.com/q9SmVty9BE
— gabagh๐ ul eater๐ป ๐บ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐๐๐๐ค ๐๐ต⛓ (@bethanygabagool) October 24, 2022
But the white nationalist told the Times in June he “had been on a ‘path to de-radicalization’ and disavowed the racist ideology he previously espoused.” Efforts to reach Monzon, vice chairman of the Miami Springs GOP club, were unsuccessful.
Hialeah Police confirmed a 27-year-old man was assaulted while handing out fliers about 6:30 p.m. Sunday, but a police report provides a different account than Rubio’s and doesn’t mention an explicit political motivation. Police did not identify the victim.
The suspect, 25, was charged with aggravated assault in connection with the incident, police said.
The suspect confronted the white nationalist and told him, “You can’t pass here. This is my neighborhood,” the report states. An argument ensued, the suspect threw the canvasser to the ground, and at that point, another person who fled before police arrived kicked the defendant, listed as the suspect, on the right side of the face, according to the report.
The suspect then started punching the white nationalist in the face, according to the report.
Rubio tweeted that the man wearing a Rubio shirt and Gov. Ron DeSantis cap was “brutally attacked” in Hialeah by “four animals” who told him that “Republicans weren’t allowed” in the neighborhood.
Photos shared by Rubio showed the canvasser on a stretcher with what appears to be a bruised eye and blood trickling down the side of his face. He suffered internal bleeding, a broken jaw and will need facial reconstructive surgery, Rubio wrote.
Upon finding out the canvasser has white supremacist leanings, his team backed down sort of.
Elizabeth Gregory, a Rubio campaign spokeswoman, wrote in an email she didn’t have additional details beyond what Rubio wrote in his tweet. She added the man was canvassing for the Republican Party and not Rubio’s reelection campaign.
Demings condemned the attack.
“I have zero tolerance for any violence against any person for any reason,” she tweeted. “Those responsible for attacking a canvasser last night should be arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”