An Arizona "angel mom" who had been set to speak at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday night was pulled from the lineup just minutes before her planned appearance after promoting an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory over social media.
Mary Ann Mendoza, whose police officer son died in 2014 after a drunken driver crashed into him, was supposed to have a prerecorded speech air on the second night of President Donald Trump's Republican confab.
But Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh confirmed to the New York Daily News that Mendoza's speech was removed in the eleventh hour after she posted a since-deleted tweet Tuesday morning urging her followers to read a lengthy, anti-Semitic thread about a Jewish plot to "control" the "goyim."
"We have removed the scheduled video from the convention lineup and it will no longer run this week," Murtaugh said in a text message.
Mendoza did not immediately react to her speech being canned.
But, before the cancellation, the Arizona woman deleted her retweet of the inflammatory thread and apologized.
"I retweeted a very long thread earlier without reading every post within the thread," she wrote. "My apologies for not paying attention to the intent of the whole message. That does not reflect my feelings or personal thoughts whatsoever."
Mendoza, who is a member of the Trump campaign's advisory board, was supposed to speak at the convention as a representative of "angel moms," a term the president popularized during the 2016 campaign for mothers whose children were killed by undocumented immigrants.
The driver who crashed into Mendoza's son was in the U.S. illegally.
According to prepared remarks of Mendoza's since-canceled speech, she was supposed to say: "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. I've met him many times and I know what's in his heart ... I know what he hopes and dreams for this country."
The thread Mendoza retweeted regurgitated tenets of the outrageous, anti-Semitic and debunked conspiracy theory known as "QAnon," which holds that Trump is working covertly to expose Jews and Democrats for a nefarious plot to control the world and traffic children for sexual abuse.
