{"id":94948,"date":"2018-02-21T16:46:12","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T20:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=94948"},"modified":"2018-02-22T14:23:09","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T18:23:09","slug":"george-soros-mobilizes-national-gun-control-movement-after-florida-false-flag-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=94948","title":{"rendered":"George Soros Mobilizes National Gun Control Movement After Florida False Flag Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>David Clarke: Fla. students&#8217; gun control push has &#8216;George Soros&#8217; fingerprints all over it&#8217;<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/launch.newsinc.com\/?type=VideoPlayer\/Single&amp;widgetId=1&amp;trackingGroup=69016&amp;playlistId=19132&amp;siteSection=ndn&amp;videoId=33561885\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" frameborder=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>BY JOHN BOWDEN<br \/>\nThe Hill<\/p>\n<p>Former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke Jr.\u00a0insinuated Wednesday that student survivors of the Parkland, Fla.,\u00a0school shooting were being manipulated by Democratic billionaire George Soros to organize for gun control.<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet, the former Wisconsin sheriff wrote that media appearances and an activism campaign from students of the\u00a0Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School against gun violence had &#8220;George Soros&#8217; fingerprints all over it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Seventeen people were killed at the Parkland high school last week when a gunman attacked with an AR-15. In the days following, students of the school have organized a national campaign aimed at\u00a0reducing gun violence.<\/p>\n<p>Clarke, who resigned as sheriff last year amid speculation he would join the Trump administration, now serves as senior adviser and spokesman for the pro-Trump America First Action PAC. He is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cpac.conservative.org\/agenda\/#menu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">scheduled to speak<\/a>\u00a0at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) later this week.<\/p>\n<p>CPAC organizers did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Clarke&#8217;s remarks.<\/p>\n<p>Clarke&#8217;s tweet follows false conspiracy theories in right-wing media such as Gateway Pundit claiming that students at the Florida high school who have appeared on CNN, including David Hogg, are &#8220;crisis actors&#8221; paid to exploit the shooting for nefarious purposes.<\/p>\n<p>An aide to a Florida state lawmaker was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/374774-florida-lawmakers-aide-fired-after-claiming-shooting-survivors-actors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fired Tuesday<\/a>\u00a0after emailing a similar conspiracy theory to a reporter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Both kids in the picture are not students here but actors that travel to various crisis when they happen,&#8221; wrote\u00a0Benjamin Kelly, an aide to state Rep. Shawn Harrison (R) to a reporter. Kelly&#8217;s\u00a0comments drew\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/374744-rubio-disgusting-group-of-idiots-made-up-claim-that-florida\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">swift condemnation<\/a>\u00a0from Sen.\u00a0<span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/marco-rubio\" data-nid=\"188218\">Marco Rubio<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(R-Fla.), as well as Harrison.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn behalf of the entire Florida House, I sincerely apologize to the students targeted and again commend them for their courage through this unspeakable tragedy,\u201d Florida House Speaker Richard Corcoran (R) tweeted an hour later.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/374840-david-clarke-fla-students-gun-control-push-has-george-soros\">http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/374840-david-clarke-fla-students-gun-control-push-has-george-soros<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Clarke: Fla. students&#8217; gun control push has &#8216;George Soros&#8217; fingerprints all over it&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}