Anti-fascist 'provocateur' disrupts police communications- Donald Trump

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday shared an unfounded conspiracy theory suggesting that an older protester police pushed to the ground last week in Buffalo, New York, could have been an anti-fascist “provocateur” trying to disrupt police communications.

On Twitter, Trump repeated a version of the incident broadcast on the Trump-leaning One America News Network. “Buffalo protester shoved by Police could be an ANTIFA provocateur. 

75 year old Martin Gugino was pushed away after appearing to scan police communications in order to black out the equipment.”

Trump added, “I watched, he fell harder than was pushed. Was aiming scanner. Could be a set up?”

A lawyer for Gugino, who remains hospitalized with a concussion, quickly condemned.

Trump’s tweet, saying it was “a dark, dangerous and untrue accusation” that the man had been part of a “set up" coordinated by anti-fascist demonstrators.