Paul Gosar deletes tweet blaming Texas shooting on ‘transsexual leftist illegal alien’

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }} Arizona Republican Rep Paul Gosar has been rebuked and apparently deleted a tweet blaming the Texas school shooting on a “transsexual leftist illegal alien”. On Tuesday, Mr Gosar tweeted that 19 children and two adults killed by a shooter at Texas’ Robb Elementary School were victims of a “transsexual leftist illegal alien”, according to screenshots of the post seen by HuffPost and Insider. It’s a transsexual leftist illegal alien,” Mr Gosar allegedly wrote in the now-deleted tweet. The Republican was allegedly responding to a Twitter user who asked whether or not the Texas shooter was “the kind of trash that Reps Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar travel to speak of?” Both Mr Gosar and Ms Greene appeared at an event organised by Nick Fuentes, a white nationalist and founder of the America First Political Action Conference, in February.