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Hey everybody, it's Tim Mo from the Bulwark. Conspiracies have run rampant in MAGA circles about the tragedy at Brown University, the murders, and then the murder of the MIT professor this week. You might Remember that initially following the shooting on Brown's campus, Cash Patel had popped off and the FBI had said that they had found a person of interest. It was a Wisconsin man. And after that person was released, conspiracists online and inside our own government started spreading information about who they thought the actual killer was. These conspiracies reached as high as the Assistant Attorney General of these United States wasn't just random online people. It was huge accounts in the maga, right? They decided that they found this student who was a Palestinian activist, who is a Palestinian activist and who has pro. His pronouns are he, they, on social media. And somehow they had identified this person as the one that they thought committed the these crimes. They said that he even had shouted Allahu Akbar when he did the killing at Brown. It turns out this is totally wrong. Late last night, the actual perpetrator of these crimes was found. He had killed himself in New Hampshire. The suspect, Claudio Valente, is from Portugal. He gained a green card through a diversity lottery. So you know, obviously now the diversity lottery is going to be the thing that comes under target. But he's a 48 year old Portuguese national. He looks not at all like the Brown University student and activist whose picture was all over the Internet this week. And I want to go through the worst offenders because it's important to call them out because you know, sometimes you'll see these people in your feed, not realize they're right wing grifters. So it's important to call out the perpetrators of this. You know, they just were recklessly naming and picturing a young person that did nothing, just solely based on their bigotry towards Muslims and trans folks. Essentially like they just. Their prior is that all Muslims and trans folks are killers. And so they found this one that goes to Brown and decided that they wanted to make that person's life miserable, make them a target. It's just despicable what they did. Before I go through all these, I do want to put this in context a little bit for one reason that I think this is really important. There's this big fight happening right now on the right that we're covering here on this page between the Ben Shapiro faction and the Tucker Carlson Candace Owens faction. And the premise of that fight is that Ben Shapiro is rightly calling out the Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens faction about their conspiracy mongering and their elevation of white nationalists, their elevation of people like Nick Fuentes who discriminate against people based on their race or religion. And in that fight, like the, the conspiracies that Ben Shapiro is calling out are about, you know, things that Tucker and Candace are advancing, like recklessly accusing Israel or a secret cabal of Jews of doing something that there's no evidence that they did, or conspiracies surrounding the Charlie Kirk killer or just kind of weird Nazi propaganda like Tucker Carlson elevating a historian who thought Hitler was the good guy in World War II. So, so Ben Shapiro is calling them out in that context. But while that debate is happening, there's this whole other conspiracy targeting Palestinian activists and trans folks. And there's nobody on the right that's saying that's wrong. And that's a problem. It's a big problem. And if there's going to be a real reckoning on the maga, right about the conspiracy mongering, which I don't expect. But if there is, then the people that are calling it out got to call it out across the board, not just when the targets of the conspiracy are people that they have more of a affinity for, be they Israeli political leaders or be they Charlie Kirk and his crew at Turning Point usa.
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Let's run through these conspiracies really quick. Once again, this is all happening after Cassidy Cash had botched this. Cash this up. They he tweeted out that they had a suspect. Wrong suspect. Then a couple days go by, don't know who the shooter was. Shooter is on the loose. And that is when these posts start coming up about the student. I'm going to redact the student's name in these screenshots because we don't want to call any additional attention to them. But originally you have, like, Laura Loomer, for example, posting about this person. She's one of the more prominent people posting about this person. And let's just pull up one of her posts right now. It's been five days since the shooting at Brown University, and we still have no name, no motive. But we do know that university is frantically scrubbing the name redacted from their website is they refuse to tell the public who the shooter is. I don't know why Brown took this person down from their website. Maybe they requested that the university do because they're getting so many threats and they were scared. Maybe Brown was like, this might be the best way to tamp down these conspiracies. I don't know. Maybe they mishandled that a little bit. I saw some critiques of that online. I don't think you can really judge the victim of this and the university, you know, for their choices in the middle of a crisis where, you know, an innocent person is getting threatened online. I think they're trying to do the best they could, but. So maybe we'll learn more about why the name got taken down from the website. But again, I assume it was based out of fear or based out of request from the student. Here's where things get really dark. Anna Paulina Luna, Congresswoman, then posts. I found it very suspicious that information's been removed from Brown University's website. Calling out that person, the Assistant Attorney General, Harmeet Dhillon posts that this is sus. It's sus. You're supposed to be one of the investigators. You're in the Justice Department now. You're not just a poster. Harmony Dhillon. You can't be posting that. It's suspicious that the university is taking down the name of a student. You're drawing attention to that student. You're putting a target on them from the Justice Department. Go find the actual killer and prosecute them. Harmony Dylan, that's your job. Fucking infuriating. A couple more Loomer posts. I mean again, there's like a grainy photo. The person that got released, Lumer claims this is a black hijab under the hoodie and they say it's a masculine woman, you know, and she's trying to again, do a trans Muslim thing together. That's really gross. But obviously it's not just Loomer. Benny Johnson who is supposedly suing Milo. We did a video on that. You can go see supposedly suing Milo about accusations that he's gay. But I haven't seen the lawsuit yet. We'll see if that ever comes to pass. He posts the pictures of this Palestinian activist. Also, Valentina Gomez says that it's a cover up. Congressman Brandon Gill got in on this separate conspiracy theory that was that one of the victims at Brown Rest in peace, Ella Co Cook, she was part of the Young Republican Club there, the College Republican Club. There's a separate conspiracy theory pushed out by Congressman Brandon Gill, Mark Kalperin, who's a reporter who's been on Megyn Kelly's network, they were pushing out the fact that Ella Cook was the real target of this and it was political violence from the left, maybe from Muslims, maybe from trans people. Since the second congressman pushing a conspiracy theory, you know, it just continues. We can kind of put up a whole, a whole compilation here, I guess. One other one I will call out is Jack Posobiek because he comes up a lot. Pizzagate Jack. He has a second source that he says that the murder of Ella Cook, the College Republican, was an inside job going after her for her political beliefs. So again, that's another wrong. So maybe you shouldn't do those sources. Matt Walsh over at Daily Wire. I heard that Ben Shapiro is against conspiracy theories, but Matt Walsh over at the Daily Wire was posting a conspiracy theory about how the Brown University SH investigation was sabotaged. I don't know who that would be sabotaged by. The Republicans control everything. But anyway, these are just some examples. I saw that poor person, that poor student and activist's name and picture all over my feeds that I where I monitor MAGA media this week and I just can't imagine being that person being falsely accused of this, having to deal with Islamophobia, having to deal with anti trans hate and for what it was like a 48 year old bald dude from Portugal that did it. So another fail from the MAGA media and to Ben Shapiro and the others who are trying to now speak out against conspiracy mongering and hate mongering. Inside the Movement. Maybe you can spare a thought for the person that was smeared by the Daily Wire, by Benny Johnson, who's related to tpusa, by Laura Loomer, who is inside the White House, and by the Assistant Attorney General of the Eastern United States. Because they didn't deserve that. And the conspiracies are Go beyond just the Charlie Kirk situation. That's all I got for you. We'll be back soon. Subscribe to the feed. Tell your friends we'll see you soon.
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