republicans are cultivating this, they ve been for a long time. you can trace it back to the 2016 election when the so-called pizzagate conspiracy theory came into being, which emerged out of the hacked emails or that were published. and that bizarre and inscrutable theory allege that hillary clinton had promised democrats and ran a child sex and sacrifice wearing out of a basement of a popular d.c. -based restaurant called comet ping-pong pizza. which, by the way, doesn t have a basement. but the conspiracy percolated in far-right media. and then this happened. under arrest in washington, 28 year old at your welsh accused of firing an assault weapon inside the comment ping-pong pizza restaurant. he allegedly told police that he came to investigate pizzagate, an internet rumor alleging a killing ten campaign sex ring. he shows up with an assault rifle, which he fired because
republicans are cultivating this, they ve been for a long time. you can trace it back to the 2016 election when the so-called pizzagate conspiracy theory came into being, which emerged out of the hacked emails or that were published. and that bizarre and inscrutable theory allege that hillary clinton had promised inscrutable theory allege that hillary clinton had promised democrats and ran a child sex and sacrifice wearing out of a basement of a popular d. c. -based restaurant called comet ping-pong pizza. which, by the way, doesn t have a basement. but the conspiracy percolated in far-right media. and then this happened. under arrest in washington, 28 year old at your welsh accused of firing an assault weapon inside the comment ping-pong pizza restaurant. he allegedly told police that he came to investigate pizzagate, an internet rumor alleging a killing ten campaign sex ring. he shows up with an assault
evidence to support that position. yet this has been a conspiracy like the common ping-pong conspiracy that keeps circulating. and fox pushed that idea. jen, you re familiar with this young man and the work that he did at the dnc. just talk about this story and the media climate in which we re all processing this lawsuit. yeah. it is it s really, i mean, it s literally sickening because this poor family has been very public about the fact that they want these conspiracy theories to stop. and they do real damage. i mean, you saw what happened with comment ping-pong, a very misguided soul walked into that place with an assault weapon. but is it fantastic to think that the president was involved in at making to the report on that? we know it s not. we know that there is a history of him retweeting great reporting from fox news that s