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Dave Brat blames staffer for ‘alt-right’ tweet about David Hogg

By Philip Wegmann
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Dave Brat blames staffer for ‘alt-right’ tweet about David Hogg

Rep. Dave Brat, R-Va., does not believe survivors of school shootings are professional actors or that massacres like the one that occurred in Parkland, Fla., are part of some larger conspiracy to undermine the Second Amendment. It was especially puzzling then, that the Virginia Republican’s campaign Twitter account liked a bizarre tweet that accused Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School senior David Hogg of being a crisis actor.

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