Andrea Catsimatidis is the chair of the
Manhattan Republican Party since 2017 and a successful businesswoman in virtue
of having had important positions in businesses owned by her billionaire
father.
Described as a “rising GOP star”,
Catsimatidis has been
a strident promoter of2020 election conspiracy theories;
already in November 2020,
she asked“
Is Joe Biden planning a coup by trying to create his own parallel
government?”, and later she asserted that “
Corporate America helped rig
the election.” After January 6, she
was quick to forwarddebunked claims
that
Antifa activists were among the rioters
(“
I’m questioning the intelligence of anyone who didn’t think ANTIFA was
involved. It’s so obvious!!!”), responding to criticism by asserting that her
aim was to ensure all the evidence was considered so attackers could be brought
to justice. That is a lie, of course. (It’s also worth noting that similar
conspiracy theories were promoted by her billionaire father,
climate change denialist John Catsimatidis).
Catsimatidis was not particularly sympathetic to the 2023 Manhattan district indictment of Trump either.
Diagnosis: Yes, a village idiot conspiracy
theorist; Qanon conspiracies and rants against the elites (“they”)
are standard fare among wingnut New York socialite billionaires, too. We have
no doubts Catsimatidis has a bright political future ahead of her.
