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&nbsp;Bexar County Republican Party Chair Cynthia Brehm, who last week suggested that the coronavirus was a Democratic hoax, raised the possibility in a now-deleted Facebook post Wednesday that the death of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody was staged to damage President Donald Trump with black voters.The content of the post was not original to Brehm and was the subject of a PolitiFact published last Friday, which reported the post had been “flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed,” and that it had been “shared thousands of times and copy-pasted by other users.““There is no evidence to back it up,” PolitiFact reported. “We reached out to the original poster for a comment, but we haven’t heard back.”Late Wednesday afternoon, Gilbert Garcia, a columnist with the San Antonio Express-News, tweeted a screenshot he took of Brehm’s post earlier in the day.The Bexar County Republican Party chair has a new conspiracy theory. #satx #txelex pic.twitter.com/6T7GxT5DYG— Gilbert Garcia (@gilgamesh470) June 3, 2020The post as it appeared on Brehm’s page is prefaced: “Tell me what you think:“Subject: George Floyd — a staged event?“The body of the post reads:“These officers were involved in something, I’m not sure exactly what, but something is just not adding up.“Also this supposed officer is now missing from his home, no where to be found has the smell of MK Ultra activation.“I think that there is at the very least the `possibility’, that this was a filmed public execution of a black man by a white cop, with the purpose of creating racial tensions and driving a wedge in the growing group of anti deep state sentiment from common people, that have been already been psychologically traumatized by COVID 19 fears.“Historically, in election years and politically contested areas or groups, racial or gun violence incidents are becoming common place.“Considering the rising approval level of President Trump in the black community an event like this was entirely ’Predictable.’“MK Ultra is a reference to CIA mind control experiments that were conducted for 20 years between 1953 and 1973.After posting the screen grab, Garcia said in a tweet that, “I got it from her Facebook page this morning. She apparently deleted it this afternoon.”I got it from her Facebook page this morning. She apparently deleted it this afternoon.— Gilbert Garcia (@gilgamesh470) June 3, 2020U.S. Rep. Chip Roy — a Republican from Austin who represents the 21st Congressional District, which includes part of Bexar County — replied to the tweet that, if the screenshot was an accurate representation of what Brehm posted, “she should resign.”If this is an accurate email - she should resign. https://t.co/Af1RyHyZAR— Chip Roy (@chiproytx) June 3, 2020Travis County Republican Party Chairman Matt Mackowiak also tweeted, “she must resign now.”“She has been an embarrassment for 2 years,” Mackowiak wrote.“With this deleted FB post,” he wrote, “she is now an embarrassment to the @TexasGOP.”She has been an embarrassment for 2 years. With this deleted FB post last night, she is now an embarrassment to @TexasGOP and @gop.She must resign now.Bexar GOPers must support John Austin for chair in the runoff. @GregAbbott_TX @tedcruz @JohnCornyn @DanPatrick @georgepbush pic.twitter.com/XD11Cy7oKG— Matt Mackowiak (@MattMackowiak) June 3, 2020Brehm made headlines at a May 22 news conference on the steps of San Antonio City Hall when she addressed the pandemic."Why is this happening today? And I'll tell you why: all of this has been promulgated by the Democrats to undo all the good President Trump has done for our country — and they are worried. So, take off your masks, exercise your constitutional rights. Stand up, speak up and vote Republican."Absolutely bizarre. The Bexar County GOP chair concludes this rally by stating that the coronavirus is a hoax perpetuated by Democrats, tells people to take off their masks, and then everyone hugs each other. pic.twitter.com/1XOFeswMiO— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) May 22, 2020In her online campaign bio, Brehm describes herself as “a Christian, a retired Army wife, a grandmother, a community activist, and a public servant.”According to the bio, she is a descendant of Canary Islanders that settled San Antonio in 1731 and her “ten-times grandfather, Juan Leal Goraz, was the first mayor of San Antonio.”In his tweet, Mackowiak called on Bexar County Republicans to defeat Brehm by voting for John Austin in the July 14 runoff for chair. In the March 3 primary, Brehm received 33% of the vote to 31% for Austin.Travis County Republicans have also been embarrassed by an elected chairman.In the March 2016 Republican primary, Robert Morrow, an Austin conspiracy theorist, defeated Travis County Republican Chairman James Dickey and presided over the county party wearing a jester’s hat. Dickey eventually regained the chairmanship and went on to be elected Texas GOP chairman, a post he still holds but that is being contested at the Republican State Convention in July. Mackowiak succeeded Dickey as Travis County chair.

&nbsp;Bexar County Republican Party Chair Cynthia Brehm, who last week suggested that the coronavirus was a Democratic hoax, raised the possibility in a now-deleted Facebook post Wednesday that the death of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody was staged to damage President Donald Trump with black voters.The content of the post was not original to Brehm and was the subject of a PolitiFact published last Friday, which reported the post had been “flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed,” and that it had been “shared thousands...

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