The Republican contender said he thinks the so-called 'deep state' was 'very involved with a lot of these operations as well.'
Mandel has expressed staunch pro-Trump views and has already been endorsed by the former president's former legal adviser Jenna Ellis. The GOP Senate hopeful made his conspiratorial remarks during a recent interview with American Media Periscope.
He said that with"respect to coronavirus, [the] January 6th [Capitol riot] and all—the entire BLM [Black Lives Matter] and Antifa riots and looting—I think a lot of this stuff were organized operations and a lot of it was funded by [liberal billionaire George] Soros and money liberal forces." Mandel continued, saying that his"guess is that the deep state was very involved with a lot of these operations as well."
Ohio Republican Senate candidate Josh Mandel suggested that"liberal forces" were behind the pro-Trump January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. In this photo, a mob pro-Trump rioters raise signs and flags on the grounds of the Capitol Building on January 6 in Washington, D.C.Barbara Comstock, a Republican who formerly served Virginia in the House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019, criticized Mandel's remarks in a Saturday tweet.
"I don't think @JoshMandelOhio actually believes this. But he says it because he thinks promoting conspiracies will get him the nomination - which is worse and makes him both unfit and unelectable," Comstock wrote.
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