Laxalt’s candidate would gut counterterrorism programs and federal efforts to combat human trafficking
Corrupt, failed politician Adam Laxalt has refused to condemn the violent insurrection he helped fuel on January 6, 2021, and he has now taken his extreme position even further by enthusiastically endorsing a January 6 truther who wants to dissolve the FBI for Congress.
According to reporting from The American Independent, Laxalt’s endorsed candidate is “notorious for pushing false conspiracy theories” about the insurrection. She claims that undercover FBI agents stormed the Capitol and has called for the agency and the Justice Department to be dissolved. Serrano also believes the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed racial discrimination, should be repealed.
If Laxalt and his endorsee were to repeal the Civil Rights Act, they would allow businesses and public facilities to discriminate based on race, religion, or national origin, like the Jim Crow south.
By Josh Israel // January 19, 2022
Adam Laxalt, the former Nevada attorney general, a pro-Donald Trump conspiracy theorist, and the current frontrunner in the GOP primary to challenge incumbent Nevada Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto in November, has endorsed candidate Carolina Serrano in the Republican primary race for Nevada’s 1st Congressional District.
Serrano is notorious for pushing false conspiracy theories about the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and has called for the elimination of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice.
The right-wing Nevada Globe exclusively reported the endorsement on Tuesday. “I am honored to receive Adam Laxalt’s endorsement,” Serrano told the outlet. “Adam was committed to President Trump’s reelection in 2020, championed our Latinos for Trump efforts, and worded [sic] tirelessly after November 3rd to try and get to the bottom of what truly transpired in our elections.”
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In October, she circulated information from Revolver, a website that traffics in conspiracy theories, and suggested that the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection, during which thousands of Trump supporters illegally entered the Capitol and tried to overturn his 2020 election defeat, was really an inside job and that “the government used a fake anti-government front group to ‘attack’ itself and frame the sitting President and his supporters for the crime.”
Earlier this month, Serrano called the events a “Fedsurrection.”
Last Wednesday, she shared a tweet from Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) repeating the same false allegations that the federal government was behind the riot: “DOJ & FBI are creations of Congress. Congress has the power to dissolve them. The idea that they can choose which information to give Congress is an illusion perpetrated by them. AG Garland must answer my question: Did federal assets encourage protestors to enter the Capitol?”
“Time to dissolve them,” Serrano added.
In July, after white supremacist Nicholas Fuentes was suspended by Twitter and other platforms over bigoted and false posts, she responded by tweeting, “1964 civil rights act should be repealed.” The Civil Rights Act of 1964 bans racial discrimination in, among other things, employment and public accommodations.
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Laxalt too has attacked the FBI and has had run-ins with the agency over a top donor’s alleged pay-to-play scheme and Laxalt’s ties to a corrupt political operative, though was not charged in either matter.
Laxalt has said little about the Jan. 6 riot, reminiscing only about “that fateful day in January when they pulled him [Trump] off of social media and pulled them off of Twitter and people felt that in their stomach, ‘Oh, my God, they can cancel a former president of the United States.'”
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