TRENTON, N.J. – Freshman Democrat Tom Malinowski (D, NJ-07) overreacted a bit (or a lot) on Friday, accusing his challenger Tom Kean Jr. of pushing a QAnon conspiracy theory.
Only it never happened.
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Here’s the tweet:
We've heard from constituents about a push poll conducted either by the Kean campaign or some GOP group asking about me allegedly belonging to a "child sex ring."
That's right – they are using a poll to push out the main QAnon conspiracy theory in our district.
— Tom Malinowski (@Malinowski) August 21, 2020
That the beginning of a multi-tweet rant.
That’s also not accurate.
Click here if you want to learn more about QAnon. I’m not going to go there. It’s too depressing.
It suffices to say the specific accusation from Republicans is that Malinowski lobbied “against the establishment of the national sex offender registry as the top lobbyist for Human Rights Watch.” No one accused him of belong to a “child sex ring,” or at least no one from the Kean camp.
Malinowski’s campaign later tempered its criticism in a comment provided to New Jersey Globe. The tweets are still up.
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