Candidate for Ohio Senate seat retweets 'Pizzagate' conspiracy theorist
WASHINGTON _ Ohio state treasurer and Republican Senate candidate Josh Mandel retweeted the right-wing conspiracy theorist behind the "Pizzagate" theory.
Mandel, who is running for a rematch against Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown in 2018, retweeted a post on Medium by Mike Cernovich, who is a host on fellow conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' Infowars.
In the post, Cernovich accuses the Anti-Defamation League, an anti-hate group, of "inciting terrorism."
In the end of the post, Cernovich writes "The mainstream media in America is ISIS."
Mandel tweeted that it was "sad" to see the ADL "become a partisan witchhunt group targeting people for political beliefs" before saying he stood with Cernovich and his colleague Jack Posobiec.
Cernovich notably promoted the "Pizzagate" conspiracy theory that posited that Comet Ping Pong Pizza, a pizzeria in Washington, D.C., was the location of a child sex ring that was tied to Hillary Clinton.
The assertion was debunked a number of times, but in December, Edgar Madison Welch entered the restaurant and fired three times. Welch pleaded guilty and was sentenced to four years in prison.
_CQ-Roll Call
