Lara Trump is now co-chair of the RNC. Here are some of the conspiracy theories and bigotry she’s spread.

• Trump referred to abortion as “murder” on The Right View. During a Fox News appearance,Trump claimed that reproductive rights advocates want “you to have an abortion, as opposed to giving you the choice to choose whatever you want.” [Right Side Broadcasting Network, The Right View, 7/30/20; Fox News, The Big Sunday Show, 6/26/22, via Twitter/X] 
• Echoing Christian Nationalist rhetoric, Trump called the criminal indictments against her father-in-law “spiritual warfare” during an appearance on Hannity. “This is not just about Republican versus Democrat,” she claimed. “This is about good versus evil.” [Fox News, Hannity, 3/31/23]
• On The Right View, Trump argued that financier George Soros seems to be to blame “any time there’s anything,” and claimed that he is “hell bent” on “destroying not just America, but the entire world.” She said, “It’s kind of shocking to me, we go back to, I feel like, the same guy every single time. Anytime there’s anything — Black Lives Matter protests, 2020 election, you know, kind of nefarious things going on. Here we are back again at George Soros.” As the Southern Poverty Law Center noted, the right’s deeply antisemitic rhetoric about Soros being an all powerful liberal boogeyman is meant to conjure “the notion that shadowy forces, dark money and disloyal individuals seek to overturn and upend American society.” [Right Side Broadcasting Network, The Right View, 10/31/23; Southern Poverty Law Center, 6/8/23]
• Trump argued that a female progressive group of lawmakers known as “the Squad” “hate Israel” and “have shown their antisemitism at every turn.” Trump claimed, “They have shown their antisemitism at every single turn, and it’s horrible to see.” [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 9/23/21]
•  Trump claimed that pro-Palestinian protesters on college campuses “have no idea what they’re talking about” and argued that the Israel-Hamas war is “about murdering Jewish people.” “A lot of people — at least I think a lot of these college students who have been out there carrying around Palestinian flags — again who have no idea what they’re talking about — are of the assumption that somehow the Palestinians are just trying to get some land back and are fighting for their right to be there,” she said. Trump added, “That is not what’s going on. Very clearly this is about murdering Jewish people.” [Right Side Broadcasting Network, The Right View, 10/17/23]

Data contributions from Jasmine Geonzon, Pete Tsipis, Gideon Taaffe, Natalie Mathes, Camden Carter, Sophie Lawton, Jacina Hollins-Borges, Ethan Collier, Charis Hoard, and Beatrice Mount.