You’ve probably heard of this guy by now. On Sunday, Edgar Maddison Welch, 28, invaded a popular Washington D.C. pizza parlor with a rifle and handgun to “self-investigate” a supposed child sex trafficking ring that Hillary Clinton allegedly ran there. He told the cops he planned to rescue the children. Inside the pizza parlor, he fired a shot, scaring the hell out of staff and customers. He’s now in jail facing felony charges.
The pizza parlor is the victim of a “fake news” story that morphed into a conspiracy theory known as “Pizzagate.” Guess who helped propagate that story?
“Even Monday, Michael Flynn Jr., who has posted frequently on the Pizzagate theories, continued to push the conspiracy theory. He’s an adviser to his father, Michael Flynn, whom Mr. Trump has selected to serve as national security adviser,” CBS News reports.
“Flynn Jr., who has accompanied his father to presidential transition meetings inside Trump Tower …, tweeted Sunday night that, ‘Until #Pizzagate proven to be false, it’ll remain a story.’ On Monday, Mr. Trump’s team had no immediate response to questions about the conspiracy theory or the roll of Michael Flynn Jr. in the transition.”
That’s who’s advising the incoming President of the United States. Oh my bleeping God!!! What kind of morons are these people? I sure hope at least 37 Trump electors are giving long hard thought to this. If ever there was a time in our history when the Electoral College needed to act as a circuit breaker, it’s right now.