East Idaho rep. says its 'plausible' Obama staged Charlottesville riots [View all]

Idaho Falls Rep. Bryan Zollinger took to Facebook on Friday, re-posting a conspiracy theory suggesting that last weekend’s events in Charlottesville, Va., could have been an inside job orchestrated to smear President Donald Trump.

The post, written on a site called The American Thinker, is replete with wild, unevidenced claims couched in what-ifs.

“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.”

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