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Unhinged Antisemitic Conspiracy Theorist Rick Wiles Is Running For Congress

Rick Wiles of TruNews (Image Art: Jared Holt)

Rick Wiles is a deeply(link is external) antisemitic(link is external) right-wing(link is external) conspiracy theorist(link is external) and End Times broadcaster who has dedicated(link is external) countless episodes(link is external) of(link is external) his(link is external) "TruNews"(link is external) programs(link is external) to(link is external) railing(link is external) against(link is external) Israel and Jews(link is external).

Now, Wiles is running for Congress(link is external).

Wiles joined fellow antisemitic(link is external) right-wing(link is external) conspiracy theorist(link is external) Stew Peters on "The Stew Peters Show" last night(link is external) to say that he decided to run for office because he was outraged by seeing Republican Rep. Brian Mast of Florida, in whose district Wiles lives, appear on Capitol Hill wearing the uniform(link is external) from his service in the Israeli Defense Forces.

Wiles said that if he is elected, his first priority will be to introduce legislation "to make it a felony for any member of Congress—House or Senate and their staff members—to wear a foreign military uniform."

"A felony," Wiles said. "Put them in prison. It's treason."

Wiles was likely motivated to run by his(link is external) deep hatred(link is external) of Jews(link is external) and the state of Israel(link is external), as well as his desire to "provoke a goyim uprising(link is external)" and "overthrow the Talmud in America."

"We are going to impose Christian rule in this country," Wiles has declared(link is external).

Wiles(link is external) is a radical conspiracy theorist(link is external) who spent the Obama administration claiming that Barack Obama was literally demon-possessed(link is external) and “a devil from hell(link is external)” who “spiritually sodomized(link is external)” the nation in his role as the head of a modern-day Nazi regime(link is external) that sought to round up “patriotic men(link is external)” and seize their homes so that they could be given to illegal immigrants(link is external).

There is no conspiracy theory too outlandish(link is external) for Wiles to promote, ranging from(link is external) declaring that Tom Brady was "sleeping with a witch" to warning that Rachel Maddow was using her MSNBC program to orchestrate a violent coup(link is external) during which President Trump and his family would be dragged out of the White House and beheaded.

Wiles has also openly(link is external) and repeatedly advocated violence(link is external) against his political enemies(link is external), urging Trump to round up liberal activists and torture them(link is external).

Wiles has a special hatred(link is external) for Right Wing Watch, because of our efforts to chronicle(link is external) his radical views and statements. In 2020, Wiles even thanked God(link is external) for the fact that the U.S. Special Forces were supposedly getting ready to hunt down and shoot “Right Wing Watch commies."

Obviously, that didn't happen and thus Right Wing Watch is still here to expose Wiles(link is external) now that he is running for Congress.

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