Despicable Crown Goes To Racist, Anti-Semitic, Muslim-Hating, Conspiracy Pushing Paul Gosar
There are so many unsavory members of Congress that it’s hard to pick the worst, unless white supremacist, anti-Semite, Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., is on the list.
Gosar is, without a doubt, the worst; even his brothers and sisters agree that he is a terrible person. And it should come as no surprise, that bigotry goes way back in Gosar’s hometown of Rock Springs, Ariz., which was the scene of one of the worst incidents of anti-immigrant violence in American history. Known as the Rock Springs Massacre, the event occurred on Sept. 2, 1885, when White miners slaughtered their Chinese counterparts due to anti-Chinese sentiment. Gosar wasn’t there but his spirit was.
Gosar is a dentist by trade and in 2001, he was the Arizona Dental Association’s (AzDA) “Dentist of the Year.” He was inducted into the AzDA Hall of Fame and served as its president from 2004 to 2005. He’s not gained notoriety for his molar extractions but rather for his injection of hateful racism and anti-Semitism into Congress.
Gosar supports conspiracy theories and has alleged ties to the far right, Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and Holocaust deniers. He has been a strong ally of trump and voted to overturn the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
A congressman since 2011, the conspiracy minded right wing dentist by trade, recently again used his government newsletter to promote USSA News, an anti-Semitic website that denies the Holocaust and praises Hitler.
The website is known for promoting conspiracies ranging from QAnon to Holocaust denial, and boasts the tagline “do not let this happen to our country ☭,” according to a report from the progressive nonprofit Media Matters For America.
Among posts reviewed by Media Matters For America one “documentary” claiming that the Nazi death camp Auschwitz was not actually an extermination camp.
“This Documentary exposes lies. I am up for that. Any Lie must be exposed,” wrote the author (writing under the pseudonym “Constitutional Nobody”).
Another USSA News article, published Friday by Constitutional Nobody, advised the reader to “watch out for so-called ‘pro-White’ online activists who are trashing [Adolf] Hitler’s legacy, or just giving Hitler lip service.”
“Stand up for Hitler,” the writer added.
Earlier this month, USSA published a piece lauding the Nazi dictator for doing “everything in his power” to prevent the destruction of the white race.
USSA News on July 17 reported that Hitler was a leading opponent of the so-called “Kalergi Plan.” The Kalergi Plan is a far-right, antisemitic, white genocide conspiracy theory that claims that Austrian-Japanese politician Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi concocted a plot to mix white Europeans with other races via immigration.
The Southern Poverty Law Center described the Kalergi plan as a European way of pushing the white genocide conspiracy theory on the continent, in order to assert that the European Union’s immigration policies were insidious plots that were hatched decades ago in order to destroy white people.
“The Kalergi Plan consists of the genocide of white people through miscegenation and mass immigration of non-whites to Europe,” the USSA News article noted. “Hitler was aware of Kalergi’s plan and did everything in his power to prevent it. Like Gobineau, Hitler considered the Aryan race to be the noblest, the best armed for the struggle for existence, the most beautiful, the most energetic, and the one with the greatest amount of creative genius.”
Joseph Arthur de Gobineau was a French aristocrat who is best known for helping to legitimize racism by the use of now debunked, scientific race theory and “racial demography” and for developing the theory of the Aryan master race.
Several pieces published on USSA News feature links to known white supremacist and Neo-Nazi websites, including the Renegade Tribune. One article was essentially a reposted article from the anti-Semitic blog, Unz Review.
Renegade is a white supremacist, conspiracy theory and anti-Semitic media platform, based in Deltona, Fla. Founded by Kyle Hunt, the project includes Renegade Broadcasting, an internet radio network founded in October 2012 and Renegade Tribune, founded in 2013.
Renegade has promoted Holocaust denial, and has portrayed the Third Reich and Hitler’s NSDAP in a positive light. NSDAP stands Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, German for the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, otherwise known as the Nazi Party. According to Renegade, Germans, not Jews, were the victims of the Second World War. In 2014, Hunt promoted “the White Man March.”
Renegade also has embraced such topics as 9/11 conspiracy theories, the Pizzagate conspiracy involving Democrats and pedophiles and flat earth theories.
The connections with Renegade and USSA News are just Gosar’s latest flirtations with extremism.
In November 2021, Gosar was censured by the House after posting a doctored anime video on social media depicting himself killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Coretz, D-N.Y. The day after the censure, Gosar re-posted the video. The House voted to censure Gosar and remove him from his congressional committee assignments in 2021 but he was reinstated after Republicans took over the House this year.
In April, Gosar promoted a link to an article from “Veterans Today,” another far right website that promotes anti-Semitic viewpoints. The article discusses statements made by Gosar regarding the war in Ukraine, and is titled “Congressman: Jewish warmongers Nuland & Blinken ‘Are Dangers Fools Who Can Get Us All Killed.’”
The headline refers to two Jewish members of the administration, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland. Blinken and Nuland both support increased aid for Ukraine. The U.S. has provided Ukraine with more than $35 billion in security assistance, according to the State Department.
Gosar has vocally opposed giving additional aid to Ukraine.
“Both Nuland and Blinken have a deeply rooted irrational hatred of Russia, and they seek to get the US involved in another world war,” Gosar tweeted. “These are dangerous fools who can get us all killed.”
The “Veterans Today” website noted that the article appears to be republished from the Russian-funded outlet “Sputnik.”
Last year, Gosar and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., participated in the America First Political Actions Conference (AFPAC). The event is organized and hosted by white supremacist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes. Last November, trump had dinner at his Mar-a-Lago palace with Fuentes and another avowed anti-Semite, Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West.
Many attendees of AFPAC are members of the “America First” movement and supporters of Fuentes, a group also known as Groypers. The conference was described by The Daily Dot as a “white nationalist alternative” to CPAC, the far right, Conservative Political Action Conference.
Groypers are white nationalist and far-right activists, provocateurs and internet trolls who are known for trying to introduce far-right politics into mainstream conservatism. The Groyper movement has been described as white nationalist, homophobic, nativist, fascist, sexist, antisemitic, and an attempt to rebrand the declining alt-right movement.
Fuentes gained national prominence after he attended the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., which included members of the alt-right, neo-Confederates, neo-fascists, white nationalists, neo-Nazis, Klansmen and far-right militias. Protesters clashed with counter-protesters and more than 30 were injured.
On the morning of Aug. 12, self-identified white supremacist James Alex Fields Jr. deliberately rammed his car into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing Heather Heyer and injuring 35 people.
As of 2022, the conference has hosted four elected officials as speakers: Greene, Gosar, Arizona State Republican Sen. Wendy Rogers, and Idaho Republican Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin.
Two weeks ago, Fuentes was at an America First Foundation rally where he declared “war” against Jewish people. Fuentes bolstered his hatred of Jews by choosing lines from the Talmud, the Jewish holy book that is often taken out of context by white supremacists and anti-Semites.
Fuentes tweeted two comments in the Talmud, “If a gentile hits a Jew, he must be killed. But when a Jew murders a gentile, there will be no death penalty.”
“This is the last part, and this is my favorite part,” tweeted Fuentes. “Jews may use lies to circumvent the gentiles.”
“Do you think it might be a problem that the people that are running your banks, that are making the movies your children watch … Do you think it’s a problem that they believe all Christians must die? It’s a big problem. It’s a huge problem,” bloviated Fuentes.
Fuentes endorsed trump for president in 2024 saying he wanted to see trump take on the federal bureaucracy and “shut down all immigration.”
Fuentes said he would “die for President Trump.”
Fuentes then launched into a violent, twisted diatribe, where he said he and followers are in a “holy war.”
“Because we’re willing to die in the holy war, we will make them die in the holy war. And they will go down. We have God on our side, and they will go down with their Satanic master. They have no future in America. The enemies of Christ have no future in this world,” Fuentes said.
Last week, Gosar again used his House.gov newsletter to promote USSA News, which called the Holocaust “the Holohoax” and told readers to “stand up for Hitler.”
Gosar has frequently promoted another virulent anti-Semite, Vincent James Foxx. Fox has nearly 70,000 subscribers to his on-line commentary on BitChute. He was the founder of the alt-right media collective known as Red Elephants, worked as a chief propagandist for a violent fascist fight club and is a prominent figure in the groyper movement.
The independent news organization, Talking Points Memo, also reported that Wade Searle, who has been Gosar’s digital director since 2021, is a supporter of Fuentes.
Gosar hasn’t let truth get in the way of his far right wing beliefs. On Jan. 6, 2020, he tweeted a photo with the caption “The world is a better place without these guys in power.”
The doctored photo showed President Barack Obama meeting Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. The encounter never happened; the picture was a photoshopped version of Obama meeting former Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh. The photojournalist Daniel Medina pointed out that Rouhani was still in power and condemned Gosar’s attempt to spread disinformation. The photoshopped image was also featured in a 2015 TV ad for right wing, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis. Gosar’s response to the criticism of the ad was “No one said this wasn’t photoshopped.”
In 2015, Gosar did not attend Pope Francis’s joint meeting of Congress, claiming that the pontiff “adopted all of the socialist talking points, wrapped false science and ideology into ‘climate justice’ and is being presented to guilt people into leftist policies.” Gosar called climate science “questionable” and criticized the pope’s encyclical on the environment in which he said that human activity was a major cause of climate change.
And then there was Gosar’s bizarre tweet on Christmas eve, 2019.
“Remember the reason for the season! #MerryChristmas,” Gosar tweeted at about 11 a.m. on Christmas Eve. The tweet included a video clip of a studio light falling on a younger Hillary and Bill Clinton, with Bill shielding Hillary from harm’s way while she said, “Jesus, Mary and Joseph.”
Chelsea Clinton went after Gosar for his strange tweet.
“At 11 a.m. on Christmas Eve, we were making cookies for Santa,” Chelsea Clinton tweeted, thanking Gosar “for reminding me of my dad’s quick reflexes!”
In July 2018, Gosar talked about the importance of free speech at a rally in London in support of former English Defence League leader and anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson.
Robinson, founder of the far-right, extremist English Defence League, is serving a 13-month sentence for contempt of court. At the same time that trump was in the U.K., Gosar showed up at the “Free Tommy Robinson” rally in London on Saturday, July 14. In his address, Gosar vilified Muslims, portraying Pakistani and Bangladeshi immigrants as rapists and child abusers. The Arizona Republican Party refused to comment on Gosar’s appearance at the rally with members of the European far-right.
In 2019, Gosar sought to reinstate Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, to the House committees from which King had been removed because of a series of racist remarks. In February 2021, Gosar spoke with King at the second annual America First Political Action Conference, hosted by Fuentes.
King had a long history of racist, anti-Semitic and anti-immigrant rhetoric and white-nationalist affiliations. The Washington Post described King as “the Congressman most openly affiliated with white nationalism.” After he was stripped of his House committees, King ran and lost a bid for re-election.
A few weeks after the 2020 presidential election, Gosar joined with 26 Republican members of Congress to request that U.S. Attorney General William Barr “appoint a Special Counsel to investigate irregularities in the 2020 election.” The Arizona Republican Party produced a video, featuring Gosar and Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., claiming that there was widespread voter fraud in the election.
In December, after the election, and before the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by trump supporters, right-wing political activist Ali Alexander said that he, Gosar, Biggs, and Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., were “planning something big,” a “mob” to pressure Congress into rejecting the election results. In a video, Alexander said, “We four schemed up of putting maximum pressure on Congress while they were voting.”
Gosar was the first member of Congress to advance the false conspiracy theory that Antifa was to blame for the violence, echoed by Brooks and Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla. During the storming of the Capitol, Gosar posted an image on the social media site Parler that showed rioters scaling the building’s walls, above Gosar’s words, “Americans are upset.”
Gosar is not very popular with his family. In September 2018, six of Gosar’s nine siblings spoke out against their brother and endorsed his Democratic opponent, David Brill.
In the first ad, sisters Grace and Jennifer, both identified as health care providers, told viewers that their brother did not care about people in rural Arizona. In another ad, called “A family defends its honor,” brother David Gosar, a lawyer, declared, “We’ve got to stand up for our good name. This is not who we are.”
As a result of Gosar’s alleged support in the storming of the Capitol, three of his siblings called for his expulsion from Congress.
“When you talk about what happened the other day, you’re talking about treason. You’re talking about overthrowing the government. That’s what this is. If that doesn’t rise to the level of expulsion, what does?” said a brother, Tim Gosar.