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Idaho Falls state Rep. shares article saying Charlottesville was ‘set-up’

Screenshot from Rep. Bryan Zollinger’s personal Facebook account. (Facebook/Post Register)
Screenshot from Rep. Bryan Zollinger’s personal Facebook account. (Facebook/Post Register)

Idaho Falls Rep. Bryan Zollinger took to Facebook on Friday, re-posting a conspiracy theory suggesting that the tragic events in Charlottesville, Va., could have been an inside job orchestrated to smear President Donald Trump, the Idaho Falls Post Register reports. The post, written on a site called “The American Thinker,” is replete with wild, unevidenced claims couched in what-ifs, writes Post Register reporter Bryan Clark..

“The conflagration in Charlottesville is beginning to feel like a set-up, perhaps weeks or months in the planning,” the author wrote. In a comment, Zollinger called the blog post “completely plausible.” You can read Clark’s full story here.



Betsy Z. Russell
Betsy Z. Russell joined The Spokesman-Review in 1991. She currently is a reporter in the Boise Bureau covering Idaho state government and politics, and other news from Idaho's state capital.

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