A white supremacist group falsely spread a story that accused Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz trained as a member of their group, news reports said Saturday.

Republic of Florida leader Jordan Jereb told the Anti Defamation League on Thursday that the 19-year-old — who allegedly slaughtered 17 people at his former high school Wednesday — had participated in one or more training drills with his group, and had carpooled with other members to Tallahassee for the exercises.

Jereb says the group’s goal is to make Florida a white ethno-state. He spoke with the ADL after apparent ROF members mentioned Cruz’s membership on the web forum 4chan.

But Jereb’s story was false, say reports.

The Associated Press moved a story Saturday saying that Jereb “appears to have lied.”

And law enforcement officials say they have no evidence supporting Jereb’s claim.

Jereb claimed he didn’t know Cruz personally and the massacre — in which most of the victims were white — was not done at the behest of the ROF.

But he told the Miami Herald he knew “with certainty” that Cruz “had something to do with us.”

Two of Cruz’s former classmates said he was fiercely right-wing and would discuss politics at school — and that he wore a “Make America Great Again” hat around campus, according to the Daily Beast.

Snopes.com — which seeks to debunk internet lies — says it’s true that Cruz wore a MAGA hat in a picture on his Instagram account.

Jereb was arrested in 2016 after threatening one of Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s staffers.



With Post wires