Erica Thomas is a member of the Georgia House of Representatives. Clearly, that’s not where she wants her political career to end, however. Yesterday, she suddenly claimed on Twitter that a white guy had harassed her at a grocery store, and had even told her to “go back where you came from!” Obviously, this was meant to prove that President Trump’s statements about The Squad are contagious.

Today I was verbally assaulted in the grocery store by a white man who told me I was a lazy SOB and to go back to where I came from bc I had to many items in the express lane. My husband wasn’t there to defend me because he is on Active Duty serving the country I came from USA! — Erica Thomas (@itsericathomas) July 20, 2019

However, the accused man didn’t take this lying down. When confronted by Rep. Thomas on camera he didn’t take a step back and insisted that she wasn’t telling the truth about their confrontation the day before:

Media machine has been blowing up story of @itsericathomas, who claims a racist white man told her to “go back where you came from.” Well, he returns during her presser to deny allegation. He says he’s a Democrat & she’s embellishing story for attention. pic.twitter.com/wh4uds2IKC — Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) July 21, 2019

So Eric Sparkes admits to approaching me and verbally assulting me in front of my 9 year and but not the rest of his statements. You sounds like a coward to me and that’s fine you will think twice before you berate any one again!You keep lying we have witnesses that will testify! pic.twitter.com/HRWTBZ89SC — Erica Thomas (@itsericathomas) July 21, 2019

Sparkes also calmly explained what had happened:

Eric Sparkes absolutely denies claim that he told politician @itsericathomas to “go back where you came from.” He says the argument started over her using the express lane while having too many items. pic.twitter.com/ZikyJc81vf — Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) July 21, 2019

According to Sparkes, what happened is that Rep. Thomas was standing at the express lane. However, she had not ten but twenty items. That’s rather rude. He pointed that out to her… after which she came up to him and started to bully him. That last part isn’t exactly hard to believe considering the body language we see in the videos above. Sparkes is calm; Thomas is clearly trying to intimidate him.

What’s more, Sparkes also explains that a) he’s not white but Cuban and b) a Democrat.

Watching the videos can’t help but make you feel that Sparkes is telling the truth, while Thomas is simply trying to score some cheap political points. Well, guess what happened later?

Finally, the State Rep. Thomas admits that, well, he didn’t actually say “go back to where you came from.” Now, he only made “those types of references.”

Oh shocking. He didn’t tell her to go back to where she came from. The truth is finally emerging. pic.twitter.com/mCu7aY6XSd — Jessica Fletcher (@heckyessica) July 21, 2019

There is footage from the original confrontation between the two, but that video hasn’t been made available — yet. The police are investigating the matter, however, so perhaps we will end up seeing it soon enough. For now, Sparkes — who has seen the footage — says that, on it, you can clearly see that she comes up to him, and that she’s berating him. In the end, he did call her a “lazy b-word,” but he is open and honest about that.

In short, from the looks of it, it seems like we’ve got yet another hate-crime hoax going on here.

Democrats: where they can’t find racism, they’ll just invent it.