A former clerk to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was accused by Twitter trolls of using a “white supremacist” symbol — even though the woman is of Mexican and Jewish heritage.
Zina Bash was attending Kavanaugh’s nomination hearing on Tuesday when cameras caught her resting her arm in a way that some construed as a controversial symbol used by the alt-right.
“What fresh hell is this!!!???” activist Amy Siskind wrote on Twitter about the image.
“Kavanaugh’s assistant Zina Bash giving the white power sign right behind him during the hearing? This alone should be disqualify!!!”
The odd allegation spread across the internet but was quickly debunked by Bash’s friends and family.
“The attacks today on my wife are repulsive,” her husband, US Attorney John Bash, wrote on Twitter.
“Zina is Mexican on her mother’s side and Jewish on her father’s side. She was born in Mexico. Her grandparents were Holocaust survivors. We of course have nothing to do with hate groups, which aim to terrorize and demean other people — never have and never would.”
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