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The grandfather of the man alleged to be behind the mass-shooting at a Colorado gay bar this weekend has been named as a MAGA Republican lawmaker who praised the January 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol last year.

Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22, is accused of killing five people and injuring 25 more at Club Q.

Posts on social media posts made under Aldrich's mother's name, Laura Voepel, have linked him to former Republican California state assembly member Randy Voepel - claiming he is his grandfather, reports The Guardian.

Confirmed photos of Aldrich himself have yet to emerge, and no mugshot has been released.

Following the attack on the Capitol, Voepel hailed the rioters comparing their actions to that of American Revolutionaries.

Leisher wrote: ↑Tue Dec 06, 2022 7:38 pm WTF was that about?

Leisher wrote: ↑Tue Dec 06, 2022 7:38 pm Also, I legit think it's wildly unfair to put Elon in the same conversation as Kayne and Trump. Sure, Elon doesn't have a perfect track record, but he's not advocating for Hitler or tossing the Constitution.

Santos’ professional biography was called into question earlier this month after the New York Times reported that he misrepresented a number of claims, including where he attended college and his alleged employment history with high-profile Wall Street firms.

“My sins here are embellishing my resume. I’m sorry,” Santos said Monday.

Santos confessed he had “never worked directly” for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, chalking that fib up to a “poor choice of words.”

The 34-year-old now claims instead that a company called Link Bridge, where he worked as a vice president, did business with both of the financial giants.

“I will be clearer about that. It was stated poorly,” Santos said of the lie.

At Link Bridge, Santos said, he helped make “capital introductions” between clients and investors, and Goldman Sachs and Citigroup were “LPS, Limited Partnerships” that his company dealt with.

He also admitted that he never graduated from any college, despite previously claiming to have received a degree from Baruch in 2010.
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Santos, elected to Congress on Nov. 8 to represent the Long Island- and Queens-based 3rd District, was also accused of lying about his family history, saying on his campaign website that his mother was Jewish and his grandparents escaped the Nazis during World War II.

Santos now says that he’s “clearly Catholic,” but claimed his grandmother told stories about being Jewish and later converting to Catholicism.