Election Conspiracies
House Whip Steve Scalise Pushed The Conspiracy That Biden Didn’t Win The Election. “Asked three times by Fox News host Chris Wallace whether the election was “stolen,” Scalise refused each time to offer the only correct answer: no. Instead, Scalise danced around a direct answer — claiming that states had not followed their own laws in conducting the pandemic-era election.” [CNN]
QAnon Conspiracies
Michigan State Rep Pushed QAnon Conspiracy. “Michigan Republican Rep. Daire Rendon told VICE News that the Q represents “a group of people who are digital warriors,” who “pass information around and reveal information that’s been kept hidden for a very long time,” based on information from the “highest level of intelligence in the United States government”—tropes of the false conspiracy theory central to QAnon.” [Vice News]
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