"Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth"
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The seminal conspiracy theory of the Trump era gets a facelift 10 years later.
Earlier this year, on his very popular podcast, Tucker Carlson brought up a “semi-forgotten story” that he had once found absurd. “I didn’t take Pizzagate as seriously, maybe, as I guess I should have at the time,” he said.
The time he was referring to was late 2016, when the Pizzagate theory — spun out of John Podesta’s hacked emails and his correspondence with the owner of the Washington, D.C., pizza restaurant Comet Ping Pong — spread online, until Edgar Welch walked into the restaurant with a revolver and an AR-15 and even early promoters such as Alex Jones and Jack Posobiec backed away. Ten years on, Kaitlyn Tiffany writes, the seminal conspiracy theory of the Trump era is getting a facelift, this time tied to Jeffrey Epstein. [...]
