Republican senators respond with disbelief to Trump’s conspiracy theory about police shoving elderly man

Several Republican senators have shown their dismay afer Donald Trump used Twitter to propagate a conspiracy theory over an elderly man pushed violently to the ground by police in Buffalo, New York.Traipsing past a gaggle of reporters outside a Republican lunch, a troop of senators were asked one after the other to comment on the president's tweet, which referenced a theory floated by far-right news network OANN that the man assaulted by an officer was trying to “scan police communications” and “fell harder than was pushed”.

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