July 6, 2023

Trump supporters Eric Bolling and Seb Gorka speculated and promoted a conspiracy theory (with no proof, of course) that the real threat to Americans are transgender killers.

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Homophobes of the world thank you, Seb.

After Monday's mass shooting in Philadelphia, extremist Republicans immediately pounced on the LGBTQ community and described the murderer as "a trans shooter." Yet, law enforcement has said no such thing.

During a news conference on Tuesday, Asa Khalif said, “The suspect has not identified themselves as trans. They have only identified themselves as male.”

Eric Bolling pounced on the opportunity to push right-wing anti-trans fodder and monologued before introducing Gorka.

"Given the recent Philly shootings and others in the past year, one could argue there is a rise of trans-identifying terrorists in this country," he said.

This set the table for his Hungarian Nazi medal wearing medal cohort, Seb Gorka.

Gorka began his tirade by citing his own bigoted views to describe the trans community at large.

Then he claimed there is statistical evidence that shows a higher rate of violence for members in the transgender community than in the rest US population. Of course, Gorka never told the Newsmax viewers where this information came from. (Out of his butt?)

...if you do a statistical analysis, Eric, of the transgender community size in relation to the rest of the population, and then their propensity to use violence like we saw in Nashville with the transgender shooter that killed six people, including three little children, and then what we witnessed in Philly.

This is the real threat to America because this is not a big population, but they seem to be more proportionally interested in committing mass killings and mass shootings. So, maybe the primary threat to America isn't the mysterious white supremacists Joe keeps talking about that nobody can ever see doing anything. Maybe the real threat to America are the transgender cross-dressing killers.

First off, on the alleged shooter's Facebook page it clearly shows that he's a diehard Trump supporter: "God, Guns & Trump."

Using a few photos posted online of the shooter wearing women's clothes, the wingnuts conclusively described the alleged perpetrated, Kimbrady Carriker, as a trans-BLM activist.

This is just another attempt by right-wing extremists to fuel the MAGA cult's homophobic culture war memes, to keep their supporters flipped out about the LGBTQ community.

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