From the administration that publicizes its crusade against "fake news" comes President Donald Trump's nominee for ambassador to Barbados and more than a half dozen Caribbean nations Leandro Rizzuto Jr. — a man who used his Twitter account to peddle conspiracy theories and baseless charges against Trump's opponents during the 2016 primary and presidential election, CNN reported Monday.

Trump nominated Rizzuto in January to be the next ambassador to Barbados. He is currently a senior executive at Conair and, if confirmed by the Senate, would also serve as an ambassador to Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda, the Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadine.

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According to a CNN KFile review of Rizzuto's Twitter account, he tweeted and retweeted unfounded, groundless, conspiratorial claims against Republican challengers Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Heidi, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, as well as Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and her aide, Huma Abedin. These claims include the allegations that Cruz was unfaithful and that his wife Heidi, who was also an "architect" of an effort to combine the governments of the U.S., Canada and Mexico. In other now-deleted tweets, Rizzuto said Cruz should "go back to Canada" and called Hillary Clinton "a terrorist with amnesia." CNN found the posts through the Google cache and the social media site Favstar. Rizzuto's Twitter and Facebook account have since been scrubbed, the report revealed.

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One tweet Rizzuto retweeted from February 2016 has a picture of Heidi Cruz with a headline that reads, 'This Woman Should Scare the Hell Out of All Americans' and alleges that 'Heidi is an architect of the North American Union (NAU), whose goal is to destroy the sovereignty of the United States.' It goes on to say that, 'If Ted becomes US President, it virtually ensures the dissolving of the USA and the formation of the NAU. This would put Heidi Cruz in line to become the First Lady--NOT of the USA, but of the new North American Union'