The White House did not respond to requests for comment. But one White House official defended Trump, saying his tweet said only that Gugino “could be” an antifa protester and that some of Gugino’s social media posts seem sympathetic to that cause. “The president is tweeting conspiracy theories about the Buffalo incident based on no evidence, no proof,” Cuomo tweeted. Whether it’s an officer bloodying a peaceful protester or a President defending him with a conspiracy theory he saw on TV. “The story Trump is referencing was written by a Russian working for the Kremlin’s propaganda agency,” Murphy wrote on Twitter.

Source: Washington Post June 09, 2020 16:56 UTC