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| Newsletter 07/18/2024 |
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Conspiracy Watch diligently curates and produces comprehensive materials and resources for understanding conspiracy theories. If you want to help us bolster our efforts...
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Conspiracy Theory Book of the Month #6: Behold a Pale Horse
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Milton William Cooper's book has influenced Donald Trump's MAGA, QAnon, antivaxers and an array of modern western fringe movements
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Stay informed with our curated collection of noteworthy updates and insights from the world of conspiracy theories. Uncover the latest trends, explore intriguing perspectives, and broaden your understanding. Delve into our recommended content that keeps you in the know.
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TRUMP'S NEAR-ASSASSINATION. For some supporters of Donald Trump, the failure of the Secret Service to prevent his attempted assassination is proof of a conspiracy orchestrated by President Joe Biden. Others blame Israeli intelligence (see below). For some of Trump's critics, however, the details of the shooting don't add up. They wonder if Trump somehow staged the whole thing. Two dueling conspiracy theories are taking root online, one for each end of America's polarized political spectrum. In this split-screen republic, Americans are increasingly choosing their own reality, at the expense of a shared understanding of the facts (Sources: Associated Press, July 18, 2024; CNN, July 16, 2024; The Economist, July 15, 2024; Anti-Defamation League, July 14, 2024).
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MEDIA CONSPIRACIES. “You’re the cause of President Trump almost being assassinated! ”. In an interview with extreme right gun-loving conspiracist Marjorie Taylor Greene at the Republican National Convention, a British journalist from The Times of London found herself under fierce verbal attack. Pointing her finger repeatedly, the Georgia Congresswoman became apoplectic with paranoid rage and hate in a delirium of wild conspiracy theories. She loudly insisted that “You are responsible for this attack” as she blamed the media, without any proof, for the attempted assassination of Trump, and “everything that’s wrong in America”. However the 20 year-old lone shooter, a registered Republican and gun enthusiast, was reportedly a fan of Trump’s and his motives are still unclear (Source: Times Radio with the WSJ/Instagram, July 17, 2024).
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J.D. VANCE. The future US vice-president under an increasingly likely Trump administration has been exposed as a conspiracy theorist who believes “childless cat ladies” are in control of the country. “We are effectively run in this country, via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable,” J.D. Vance said in a 2021 interview with then Fox News host Tucker Carlson - who did not disagree. The interview resurfaced after Vance’s nomination along with his infamous comments likening Trump to Hitler (comments he suddenly no longer agrees with). Meanwhile, Carlson reportedly told Trump to pick Vance or the Deep State might assassinate him. Vance, like Carlson is a boon for Moscow. He is notorious for his attacks on Ukraine and saying after Russia’s 2022 invasion that he “did not care” about the country. He has also spread Russian disinformation conspiracy theories about Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s lifestyle, and claims that Ukraine has the “most corrupt leadership in the world”. "We’re getting easily half a trillion dollars in the hole for the Ukraine conflict ... Why? So that one of the Zelenskyy’s ministers can buy a bigger yacht?" he said in an interview with former Trump strategist Steve Bannon last year (Sources: The Daily Kos, July 17, 2024; Republicans Against Trump/X, July 16, 2024; Vanity Fair, July 17, 2024; The New York Times, July 16, 2024; Politico, July 16, 2024).
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VACCINES. In a leaked video, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump repeated false conspiracy theories about childhood vaccinations on a call with third-party presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. The clip also shows Trump telling his ostensible campaign rival, “I would love you to do something.” The call allegedly took place one day after Trump survived an assassination attempt at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday. The 98-second video, which was posted online and then deleted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., captures Trump’s voice on a cell phone being held by Kennedy, an independent presidential candidate and documented vaccine conspiracist and distributor of vaccine disinformation. “I agree with you,” Trump is heard saying at the start of the clip. “Something’s wrong with that whole system. “Remember how I said, ‘I want to do small doses, small doses.’ When you, when you feed a baby, Bobby, in vaccination, that it’s like 38 different vaccines and it looks like it’s meant for a horse,” Trump says (Source: CNBC, July 16, 2024).
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