Lauren Witzke, a hardline right-winger who ran unsuccessfully for the US Senate in 2020, has been banned from Twitter. Her ban got here after she referred to as a trans activist “demonic” for suggesting that “little ladies” will be “kinky.”
Witzke’s account was suspended on Sunday night, and in a put up to Telegram shortly afterwards, the previous Senate candidate from Delaware revealed that her account had violated Twitter’s guidelines in opposition to “hateful conduct.”
Witzke’s final tweet earlier than her suspension was just one phrase lengthy. Retweeting a put up by an anti-trans feminist group that contained a quote by self-described “gender non-conforming author and efficiency artist” Alok Vaid-Menon, Witzke wrote: “Demonic.” The put up highlighted that Vaid-Menon appeared to argue that transgender ladies ought to be allowed into bogs with younger ladies all as a result of “little ladies are additionally kinky. Your children aren’t as straight and slim as you suppose.”
Lauren’s final tweet earlier than getting hit with the ban hammer pic.twitter.com/pafWOUYcex
— Cassandra Fairbanks (@CassandraRules) March 7, 2021
“Calling pedophiles demonic now violates twitter’s phrases of service as ‘hateful content material,’” Witzke wrote on her Telegram in wake of the ban. “KEEP FIGHTING! It’s your job to select up the torch and combat for what’s proper!”
Witzke is not any stranger to controversy. Within the runup to her failed bid to unseat Democratic Senator Chris Coons final November, Witzke referred to as for an entire halt to immigration for a decade, and in years previous has spoken favorably of the 9/11 ‘truther’ motion and the ‘Pizzagate’ conspiracy concept. She has additionally been related to the ‘QAnon’ motion, however disavowed it final yr as “extra hype than substance.”
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Simply final week, Witzke received caught right into a Twitter argument with Richard Grenell over whether or not “mentally in poor health” transgender individuals and homosexuals ought to be given prominence within the Republican get together. Grenell, who served as US Ambassador to Germany underneath former President Donald Trump, took exception to Witzke’s hardline views.
Earlier than getting into politics, Witzke was arrested in 2017 with heroin, methamphetamine and a handgun, and claims to have been an opioid addict and “low-end drug-runner” for Mexican cartels. The fees in opposition to her had been subsequently dropped, and Witzke has been open with the media about her troubled previous.
In her Telegram posts, Witzke urged her followers to maintain hounding Vaid-Menon, telling them to “destroy this man.”
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