Is the White House Communications Director a Fan of a Notorious Conspiracy Theorist?
Conspiracy theorist Jacob Wohl has spread rumors that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is dead. He’s been banned from Twitter for making fake 2020 presidential campaign accounts in an attempt to manipulate the election. He’s been referred to the FBI for hatching a bizarre plot to allegedly catfish special counsel Robert Mueller by paying women to make sexual misconduct claims against him. And apparently he maintains a close relationship with the White House communications director and his wife.
Wohl tells Mother Jones that Bill Shine, a former co-president of Fox News and current White House deputy chief of staff and communications director, and his wife, Darla, are “big fans” of his. Last week, Darla Shine was spotted greeting Wohl warmly at a gathering of conservatives. The White House didn’t respond to requests for confirmation of the Shines’ relationship with Wohl, but if Wohl’s depictions are accurate, then one of the country’s most notorious conspiracy theorists may have the ear of a member of President Donald Trump’s innermost circle.
Wohl spent several hours Thursday and Friday loitering with right-wing activist Laura Loomer in the hotel lobby outside the Conservative Political Action Conference, one of Washington’s largest annual conservative political gatherings. On Thursday, the pair held a press conference to release the results of their investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), a Muslim member of Congress who Wohl alleged had secretly married her brother in an attempt to commit immigration fraud. The claim is so far into tinfoil-hat territory that even CPAC—which has in the past been sponsored by the John Birch Society and hosted far-right fringe speakers—apparently wouldn’t let Wohl into the conference to make his dubious announcement.
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