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Initech

(100,060 posts)
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 11:49 AM Jun 2018

Heritage Foundation Goes Full Conspiracy Theory

Infowars Washington bureau chief Jerome Corsi spoke this afternoon before a crowd at the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank that has poured staffers into positions in the Trump administration. Corsi’s appearance at Heritage, which has also had a hand in picking Trump’s judicial nominees, is further evidence that whatever line may have once separated the conservative establishment from the far-right fringe has been steadily erased in the Trump era.

Despite the fact that Corsi is an off-the-wall conspiracy theorist, he is somehow still treated seriously by some who travel in mainstream conservative circles, allowing him to get columns in publications like USA Today and book interviews on C-SPAN and Newsmax. Today, he was hosted by one of the most powerful conservative organizations in the nation.

Corsi was introduced by Nancy Schulze, founder of Republican Congressional Wives Speakers, as well as a “Women for Trump” bus tour in North Carolina. She is in town to address the “Tea for Trump” event at the Trump International Hotel in Washington this weekend, where a member of the president’s family is expected to attend. Schulze introduced him as “master truth-teller, Jerome Corsi.”

Corsi’s “truth-telling” has included devoting countless hours to promoting a conspiracy theory known as “The Storm,” which centers around the assertion that President Trump personally ordered a high-level administration official with top-level security clearance to post riddles on 4chan and 8chan as a coded message to right-wing conspiracy theorists that Trump is secretly taking down a vast network of satanic pedophiles, including many Democrats. Corsi’s book “Killing the Deep State,” was waved by attendees at an April march of “The Storm” believers. During his “research,” Corsi has baselessly accused various people of being pedophiles, promised that video will be released showing elites butchering children, and challenged multiple federal officials to fight him behind the Department of Justice.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/jerome-corsi-just-spoke-at-dcs-most-powerful-think-tank/


Come on, even Alex Jones admitted that "The Storm" and QAnon are complete bullshit. As if this last week hasn't made me sick enough, it gets worse!
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Heritage Foundation Goes Full Conspiracy Theory (Original Post) Initech Jun 2018 OP
Someday all this crazy crap will cause their downfall The Genealogist Jun 2018 #1
While they're looking for new ways to troll and "trigger" us... Initech Jun 2018 #2
Funny you mention "trigger" The Genealogist Jun 2018 #4
Again? Yet another pedophilia conspiracy? underpants Jun 2018 #3
Seriously! Whatever happened to the days of Bigfoot and Area 51? Initech Jun 2018 #6
Terrorist think tanks superpatriotman Jun 2018 #5
CORSI is bff with George NOORI, the wannabe who replaced Art BELL UTUSN Jun 2018 #7

The Genealogist

(4,723 posts)
1. Someday all this crazy crap will cause their downfall
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 11:55 AM
Jun 2018

It may not be soon, but eventually these kookachoos will be sent back to the fringes where they belong.

Initech

(100,060 posts)
2. While they're looking for new ways to troll and "trigger" us...
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 11:58 AM
Jun 2018

We're busy doing that thing called "winning elections"!

The Genealogist

(4,723 posts)
4. Funny you mention "trigger"
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 12:01 PM
Jun 2018

I Can't thing when I've seen a deplorable call someone else "triggered it was themselves who are triggered. But yes, we will worked to get good dems elected while they are acting the fool.

underpants

(182,739 posts)
3. Again? Yet another pedophilia conspiracy?
Thu Jun 21, 2018, 12:01 PM
Jun 2018

Just for a change how about some C. H. U. D. s or a good Big Foot story from these people?

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