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When Axios reported earlier this week that a memo produced by President Donald Trump's Justice Department and FBI concluded that there is "no evidence that convicted sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein blackmailed powerful figures, kept a 'client list' or was murdered," the MAGA movement went into full meltdown.

For years, MAGA activists have been convinced that the Epstein files contained the key to finally taking down the "deep state" and that Trump was the only politician in America with the courage to release them; a belief that was eagerly fueled by members of Trump's own administration.

Now Trump and those same administration officials are being accused of covering up the truth about Epstein and his death, which is prompting some Trump cultists to twist themselves in knots defending the administration.

For instance, QAnon conspiracy theorist Liz Crokin, who has built an entire career on promising that Trump was working diligently to expose Epstein's secrets, was forced to scramble to explain why Trump himself angrily shut down questions about the Epstein investigation during a cabinet meeting earlier this week.

"This is brilliant," Crokin claimed during an appearance on "The Hannah Faulkner Show" on Tuesday, insisting that it was all a ruse by the president to trick the media into covering the Epstein issue.

"I kind of feel like we seeing a little classic President Trump Kabuki theater 5-D chess here," Crokin declared.

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MAGA pastor and unabashed Trump cultist Shane Vaughn took a different approach, telling those who believe that Trump and his administration are engaged in a cover up to "let it go" in a video he posted on Facebook.

"You trust [Trump], right?" Vaughn asked. "You trust Pam Bondi, you trust Dan Bongino, you trust Kash Patel. Let. It. Go! Get over it. Move on."

"Evil is evil. It's always there," Vaughn counseled. "Trust God. Trust Trump. Trust our Justice Department. We've got great people up there now."

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Todd Coconato, another right-wing pastor and Trump cultist, posted his own video on social media in which he passionately insisted that there must be "more to the story" because there is simply no way that Trump and his administration would "gaslight the whole MAGA movement" like this.

"I don't think that [Trump] wants his legacy to be that he allowed one of the biggest stories in our generation to just go away," Coconato insisted. "Either the man is a complete liar, which I just can't imagine that being the case. Dan Bongino, Kash Patel, Pam Bondi, we'll go down the list; would every one of them sell their soul? People say for money, they do it for money, they do it for power, they were just lying. All of them? All of them were doing that? So you're telling me that not one of them has a conscience? Not one of them would say, 'Hey you know what? I can't be involved in this, so I'm going to step down from this position' so they save their reputation and their integrity? You're telling me that none of this group—Karoline Leavitt, who is literally a strong believer—you're telling me that all these people, all of them are willing to sell their soul for power and none of them are going to step down? They're just going to be in lockstep with President Trump to just gaslight the whole MAGA movement?"

"I would say pause and pray and believe that there's more to the story, like I do," Coconato added. "I do think there's more to the story. I think we're going to hear more, I think we're going to see more, but I think it might take some time and I think everybody needs to have some patience."

"Don't just turn on this administration," Coconato begged. "Even if they did gaslight us on this, this is still far better than it would have ever been with a Kamala Harris administration."

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Liz Crokin - Wikipedia

elizabeth M. Crokin (born February 8, 1979) is an American columnist and conspiracy theorist.[1][2][3][4] Since 2017, she has been an outspoken supporter of QAnon conspiracy theories.

Early life and education

Crokin was born on February 8, 1979.[5] She grew up in Glenview, Illinois, and graduated from New Trier High School. She attended the University of Iowa studying political science and journalism. While there, she was an organizer for Students for Bush, an organization supporting the George W. Bush 2000 presidential campaign. She later interned at the U.S. State Department during Bush's first term and for conservative pundit Bill O'Reilly's show The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News.[2]

Career

Crokin began working in 2002 for the Chicago Tribune, before moving to their RedEye daily tabloid writing a column called "Liz in the Loop" (previously "Eye Contact") which covered celebrity news in the Chicago area. In 2010, Crokin moved to Los Angeles and began working as a freelance entertainment reporter for National Enquirer, Star, In Touch Weekly, US Weekly where she focused on celebrity breakups. Crokin returned to Chicago in 2012 to work for lifestyle magazine Splash, a Chicago Sun-Times publication at the time, writing a column called "LA LA Liz".[2]

In September 2012, Crokin developed a viral form of meningitis which progressed into meningoencephalitis and caused daily migraines, vertigo, and photophobia resulting from brain damage. Her health problems resulted in a loss of work, including being laid off in 2013 by American Media Inc., parent company of Star and National Enquirer. Crokin and others had previously accused AMI content officer Dylan Howard of sexual harassment, and has suggested that the layoffs were done in retaliation.[6][2] Crokin's column in Splash ended in February 2014.[2]

In 2015, Crokin resumed her career as a columnist by writing for Townhall. Though her columns for that magazine focused mostly on sex crimes, in 2016 she published a paper titled Trump Does the Unthinkable, which listed good deeds attributed to then-presidential candidate Donald Trump. That column became very popular on social media among Trump supporters.[7]

Also in 2015, Crokin self-published a semi-autobiographical novel, Malice. The book contained a thinly veiled portrayal of her relationship with a man whom she sued for allegedly exposing her to herpes. Crokin's ex-boyfriend countersued her for his fictionalized portrayal in the novel. The matter was partially settled in 2018.[7]

Conspiracy theories

Crokin first became an adherent of the Pizzagate investigation after the release of emails from White House official John Podesta.[7] Crokin continues to believe Pizzagate is true, as of 2020.[8] She then became a follower of QAnon, another conspiracy theory whose wider scope includes that liberals and elites are running worldwide child sex-trafficking rings whom Donald Trump is secretly fighting.[3]

The QAnon source making "intel drops" on imageboards 4chan and 8chan, Crokin believed, was Trump himself or Stephen Miller.[9][10] According to Crokin, she "immediately knew [QAnon] was legit" upon discovering the first "drop". She went on to become one of QAnon's most prominent "influencers".[7]

Crokin shares the QAnon beliefs that the Mueller investigation was a cover for a pedophile investigation and that the cabal of child abusers will ultimately be defeated and its members arrested en masse in an event known as "the Storm".[10][11] In 2017, future congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene credited Crokin for her discovering QAnon.[7] At the end of December 2017, Crokin claimed on Twitter that photographs posted on Snapchat by Chrissy Teigen, which showed the model with her one-year-old daughter, contained concealed messages suggesting Teigen was connected to Pizzagate.[12]

After Twitter removed her verification, Crokin went on to contend that Teigen might be under the CIA's Project MKUltra mind control program (long since scrapped).[13] Other people possibly under MKUltra, according to Crokin, include Harvey Weinstein and Jeff Bezos.[13] She featured in Out of Shadows, a documentary uploaded to YouTube in April 2020. For her, Jeffrey Epstein and the NXIVM scandal demonstrated the continuing validity of Pizzagate.[14]

Crokin was the original source for Roseanne Barr's deleted tweet in March 2018 claiming President Donald Trump had released hundreds of children from bondage each month. Crokin had used fake figures in a 2017 blog post for the conservative Townhall website entitled "Why the MSM Is Ignoring Trump's Sex Trafficking Busts" claiming a "staggering 1,500-plus arrests" of involved individuals in the first 30 days of Trump's presidency.[2][15]

Another thesis she has spread is that John F. Kennedy Jr. did not die in a 1999 plane crash, but faked his death, and is behind QAnon.[11][16][17] According to Right Wing Watch, she predicted in March 2018 that the conspiracy theories suggesting "thousands of high-level political, business and entertainment figures are involved in cannibalistic satanic pedophilia" would be proven as true before President Trump leaves office.[18]

In February 2019, Crokin expressed disappointment that Trump had not yet conducted the "mass arrests" of the child sex ring members as promised by Q, and worried that Trump might lose support if he waited too long. She added that she was in favor of citizen's arrests against John Podesta and other people, and warned that people might lose patience and take the street to conduct "vigilante justice".[19]

During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, she relayed the #FilmYourHospital hashtag, as an attempt to prove that the pandemic was a "lie" engineered by the "cabal" and China.[7]

Crokin was eventually banned by all mainstream social media platforms for her misinformation campaigns.[7] Her ban from Twitter was lifted on January 6, 2023.[20]

On December 6, 2022, Crokin appeared at a fundraising event hosted by former US President Donald Trump at his house Mar-a-Lago in Florida.[21][22]

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Liz Crokin is a major amplifier of the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory and has also pushed conspiracy theories about the death of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich. Crokin called the 2017 Las Vegas, Nevada, mass shooting a “false flag.”

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Q Into the Storm - Wikipedia

...See also: QAnon, 8chan, Jim Watkins (businessman), and Ron Watkins

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jim_Watkins_1_%28cropped%29.png)Jim Watkins, operator of 8chan(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fredrick_Brennan_selfie_%28cropped%29.jpg)Fredrick Brennan, creator of 8chan

QAnon is a debunked American far-right conspiracy theory alleging that a secret cabal of Satan-worshipping, cannibalistic pedophiles is running a global child sex-trafficking ring and plotted against former U.S. president Donald Trump while he was in office,[10][11][12][13] and is often described as being a cult.[14][15][16]

The conspiracy theory began with an October 2017 post on the anonymous imageboard 4chan by "Q" (or "QAnon"), who was presumably an American individual.[17] Q claimed to be a high-level government official with Q clearance, who has access to classified information involving the Trump administration and its opponents in the United States.[18] The imageboard website 8chan, rebranded to 8kun in 2019, later became QAnon's online home, as it is the only place Q posts messages.[13][19][20][21]

8chan is an imageboard website composed of user-created message boards that was created in October 2013 by computer programmer Fredrick Brennan.[22] After a surge in traffic to the site in 2014 due to the migration of Gamergate-related discussion from 4chan, Brennan was faced with financial challenges to keeping the site online.[23][24] He began working with Jim Watkins, a technology businessman and the operator of the 2channel textboard, and moved to the Philippines to live and work with Watkins and his son Ron.[25]

In January 2015, Jim Watkins became the official owner and operator of 8chan.[26] Brennan continued to work as the site's administrator until 2016, at which time he relinquished the role and Ron Watkins took the position. Brennan continued to work for Jim Watkins until cutting ties with the family in 2018.[26][27][28][29][30] Brennan has since become an outspoken critic of 8chan, the Watkinses, and QAnon, and has actively battled to try to take 8chan offline.[24][31][32][33]

Numerous journalists and conspiracy theory researchers believe that Jim Watkins or his son, Ron Watkins, are working with Q, know Q's identity, or are themselves Q.[40] Brennan has also supported this theory, and in June 2020 said, "I definitely, definitely, 100 percent believe that Q either knows Jim or Ron Watkins, or was hired by Jim or Ron Watkins."[36]

Both Watkinses have denied knowing Q's identity, and Ron Watkins again denied being Q shortly before the series premiered.[41][36] In February 2020, Jim Watkins formed a super PAC called "Disarm the Deep State", which backs political candidates who support the QAnon conspiracy theory.[42] Ron Watkins has played a major role in helping to amplify the QAnon conspiracy theory, and has been described as a de facto QAnon leader.[43][44][45]

Production

Q: Into the Storm is directed by Cullen Hoback. Hoback began following the development of QAnon and working to discover the identity of Q in 2017.[46][47] Adam McKay is executive producer for the series, under his Hyperobject Industries banner.[46][48]

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...That’s just the order of the day in the upside-down Q-niverse, which Hoback may have very well conquered; unlike so many investigative docs of this ilk, he delivers the goods, presenting a sturdy case that Ron Watkins is the keyboard chaos agent behind Q. But for all his muckraking, Hoback’s most valuable insights concern the pathologies that compel someone to take refuge among the Q-ers. In a post-Trump America, QAnon itself appears to be losing steam, with Ron instructing the remaining members of 8kun to “go back to our lives as best we are able”. But some loyalists continue the windmill-tilting, and others will bring their exploitable behaviors to the alt-right, white nationalists, neo-Nazis and other camps all too eager to integrate them. Even if QAnon disbands – and the “barrage of messages from the usual suspects” in Hoback’s inbox suggests that they’ve still got some fight in them – the US will be dealing with the attendant mentality for generations to come.

“I got a better sense of why people believe what they believe,” Hoback says. “One of the things we’ve got to face as a society is the quandary of why people are turning to QAnon. Why this radical rejection of expertise, and of ‘elites’? It gives a sense of hope, community and purpose. It fills needs for people who don’t always have much else. That’s why it gets compared to religion a lot of the time, for fulfilling a lot of the same desires. Except instead of waiting for heaven and hell, they exist right here on Earth, and they exist in the form of these bad guys … It’s a false narrative, but to them, that hardly matters. What you see in this series, is that by the end, something fantastic and ridiculous can meme itself into reality.”...

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cullen Hoback|...| Self - Filmmaker6 episodes, 2021 |

Fredrick BrennanFredrick Brennan... Self - 8Chan Creator aka Hotwheels6 episodes, 2021
Craig JamesCraig James... Self - QTuber, JustInformed Talk6 episodes, 2021
Ron WatkinsRon Watkins... Self - 8Chan Administrator aka Codemonkey / ...6 episodes, 2021
Will SommerWill Sommer... Self - Tech Reporter, The Daily Beast5 episodes, 2021

|Liz Crokin|Liz Crokin|...| Self - QTuber, Former Gossip Columnist4 episodes, 2021 |

Jim WatkinsJim Watkins... Self - 8Chan Owner / ...5 episodes, 2021
Dustin NemosDustin Nemos... Self - QTuber4 episodes, 2021
Tom RiedelTom Riedel... Self - 8Chan Engineer3 episodes, 2021

|Jack Posobiec|Jack Posobiec|...| Self - Correspondent, One America News3 episodes, 2021 |

Jared HoltJared Holt... Self - Investigative Reporter, Right Wing Watch3 episodes, 2021
Paul FurberPaul Furber... Board Owner aka Baruch The Scribe / ...4 episodes, 2021
Jamie ButeauJamie Buteau... Self - QAnon Supporter2 episodes, 2021
Jenn ButeauJenn Buteau... Self - QAnon Supporter2 episodes, 2021
Aubrey CottleAubrey Cottle... Self - 420chan Founder, Anonymous Founder2 episodes, 2021

|Tracy Beanz|Tracy Beanz|...| Self - QTuber2 episodes, 2021 |

|DeAnna Lorraine|DeAnna Lorraine|...| Self - Future Congressional Candidate R-CA|

jake Rockatansky|...| Self - QAnon Anonymous Podcast2 episodes, 2021 |

Julian FeeldJulian Feeld... Self - QAnon Anonymous Podcast2 episodes, 2021
Joseph UscinskiJoseph Uscinski... Self - Political Scientist1 episode, 2021
Thomas SchoenbergerThomas Schoenberger... Self - Creator of Cicada 33011 episode, 2021
Roberto BuiRoberto Bui... Self - Co-Author of 'Q', aka Luther Blissett1 episode, 2021
Colin SkowColin Skow... Self - QAnon Supporter1 episode, 2021
Anne ArmstrongAnne Armstrong... Self - RI Gubernatorial Candidate, Compassion Party1 episode, 2021
Alan GordonAlan Gordon... Self - RI Attorney General Candidate, Compassion Party1 episode, 2021
Michelle LynnMichelle Lynn... Self - Craig's Wife1 episode, 2021
Nick NoeNick Noe... Self - U.S. Air Force (Retired)1 episode, 2021
Benjamin BarrBenjamin Barr... Self - Attorney1 episode, 2021
Paul Vallely:{Paul Vallely}:... Self - U.S. Army (Retired), Center for Security Policy2 episodes, 2021
Omar NavarroOmar Navarro... Self - Congressional Candidate R-CA1 episode, 2021
Stephen KleinStephen Klein... Self - Attorney1 episode, 2021
Jason SullivanJason Sullivan... Self - Former Chief Social Media Strategist to Roger Stone1 episode, 2021
Zoë QuinnZoë Quinn... GamerGate Target / ...1 episode, 2021
William BinneyWilliam Binney... Self - Former NSA Analyst1 episode, 2021
Coleman RogersColeman Rogers... Self - Co-Founder, Patriot Soapbox aka Pamphlet Anon1 episode, 2021
A.J. VicensA.J. Vicens... Self - Journalist, Mother Jones1 episode, 2021
Mark MannMark Mann... Board Owner / ...1 episode, 2021

|Jacob Chansley|Jacob Chansley|...| Self - 'QAnon Shaman'2 episodes, 2021 |

Christina UrsoChristina Urso... Self - Co-Founder, Patriot Soapbox aka Radix1 episode, 2021
Travis ViewTravis View... Self - QAnon Anonymous Podcast1 episode, 2021
Roger StoneRoger Stone... Self - Former Trump Campaign Advisor4 episodes, 2021
Maia FurberMaia Furber... Self - Paul Furber's Wife1 episode, 2021
Fast JackFast Jack... Board Owner aka Breadbox / ...1 episode, 2021
William G. StowellWilliam G. Stowell... Botetourt Sheriff Candidate / ...1 episode, 2021

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crokin marvels at just how far she has come. Last week, the once ostracized QAnon conspiracy theorist spoke at an event held at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida and at which Trump himself appeared, and she is amazed at just how far she has come.

Crokin was one of the earliest promoters of the QAnon conspiracy theory and has spent the last several years spreading increasingly wild conspiracy theories, primarily about “Pizzagate,” a convoluted conspiracy theory alleging that thousands of highly influential politicians, entertainers, and business leaders are part of a global satanic pedophile ring.  In 2016, one man radicalized by the “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory entered a pizzeria in Washington, D.C., and fired his weapon, believing that children were held captive in the basement. The QAnon conspiracy theory, which appeared on fringe message boards in 2017, is seen as the successor to “Pizzagate.”

Despite the fact that literally none of the predictions that Crokin made over the years ever came true, she never followed through on her threat to “bow out” of the QAnon movement if she didn’t see mass arrests of leaders of the supposed global satanic pedophile ring by the end of 2019. Instead, Crokin has doggedly continued to spread the conspiracy theory, at one point even expressing her gratitude “for everything that Q has done for humanity.”

While QAnon was once a fringe far-right conspiracy theory, it was systematically mainstreamed by Trump and those in his orbit, so much so that now someone like Crokin can be invited to speak at Mar-a-Lago.

Last Tuesday, Crokin spoke at a fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago for America’s Future, an organization affiliated with former national security adviser and QAnon conspiracy theorist Michael Flynn. At the event, it was announced that America’s Future was launching a program called “Project Defend & Protect Our Children” that will be overseen by a board featuring Crokin,discredited journalistLara Logan, and others. To Crokin’s delight, Trump made a surprise appearance at the event later that evening.

The day after the event at Mar-a-Lago, Crokin appeared on the “Liberty and Justus” program, where she marveled at how she has gone from “ostracized” for spreading “Pizzagate” conspiracy theories to talking about it openly as a featured speaker at an event at which the former president appeared.

:{“We had this wonderful fundraiser to raise money for this cause at Mar-a-Lago last night, and I got the privilege and the honor to speak at Mar-a-Lago about ‘Pizzagate,'” Crokin }boasted:{.:(style="background-color:#ffffff;"/maxresdefault.jpg):{.}::{ “Six years ago, I was a lone soldier fighting this; no one wanted to even say the word ‘Pizzgate’ because the media had so successfully redefined what it is, and it was so taboo. I can’t even tell you how badly I was ostracized for talking about ‘Pizzagate,’ exposing ‘Pizzagate,’ and how many friends I lost and what a lonely journey it was. }::{So, to go from that to being at Mar-a-Lago and being able to freely talk about ‘Pizzagate’ there and say, ‘This is real, and there’s no more tiptoeing around it anymore,’ was just an incredible experience.”[vid]}:

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QAnon Conspiracy Theorist Liz Crokin Complains That Her Critics Have Made Her Life ‘Hell’

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Twitter Deleted Sheriff Clarke’s Wildly Reckless Coronavirus Tweets, So He Says He’s Quitting

TAKING HIS TALENTS ELSEWHERE

After being punished for promoting coronavirus disinformation on Twitter, the former Milwaukee sheriff claims he’ll move over to a social-media app popular with conservatives.

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Updated Mar. 16, 2020 6:10PM ET / Published Mar. 16, 2020 2:49PM ET

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Twitter on Monday deleted tweets from former Milwaukee Sheriff and staunch Donald Trump ally David Clarke Jr. that downplayed the severity of the coronavirus by calling for businesses to ignore local ordinances aimed at stopping the pandemic.

On Sunday night, Clarke sent a series of tweets suggesting that the newly enacted measures ordering bars and restaurants to shut down were part of a scheme to destroy capitalism. Clarke urged local businesses to defy the law and stay open.

“It is now evident that this is an orchestrated attempt to destroy CAPITALISM,” Clarke wrote in a since deleted tweet. “First sports, then schools and finally commercial businesses. Time to RISE UP and push back. Bars and restaurants should defy the order. Let people decide if they want to go out.”

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Clarke also told his more than 900,000 followers on Twitter, in a now-deleted tweet, that coronavirus is the “DAMN FLU.” Clarke also suggested that billionaire Democratic financier George Soros, a frequent target of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, was somehow involved in the pandemic.

Clarke’s tweets were deleted for breaking Twitter’s policy against “encouraging self-harm,” according to a Twitter spokesperson. But several tweets from Clarke’s rant remained accessible on the site as of Monday afternoon, including the tweet mentioning Soros and a tweet urging Clarke’s followers to “GO INTO THE STREETS” and visit restaurants.

GO INTO THE STREETS FOLKS. Visit bars, restaurants, shopping malls, CHURCHES and demand that your schools re-open. NOW!

If government doesn’t stop this foolishness...STAY IN THE STREETS.

END GOVERNEMNT CONTROL OVER OUR LIVES. IF NOT NOW, WHEN?

THIS IS AN EXPLOITATION OF A CRISIS.

— David A. Clarke, Jr. (@SheriffClarke) March 15, 2020

Twitter didn’t comment on why some of Clarke’s tweets had remained on the site.

Clarke, an outspoken Trump supporter who has claimed he was in the running for a Homeland Security job in the Trump administration, blasted Twitter for deleting the tweets in a statement to The Daily Beast that his press person demanded be printed in full (but which we’re not doing since we never agreed to do such a thing before he sent it).

“I notice that everytime I get on a roll excoriating liberals and their policies, complaints about my Tweets start to pop up,” Clarke told The Daily Beast. “I find it interesting that The Daily Beast can actually get a hold of a live spokesperson at Twitter. I nor anybody else can do that as the**totalitarian fascist speech suppression bullies at Twitter** cleverly have a system that doesn’t allow anyone to reach a human being during its appeal process. All I get are computer generated responses.”

Clarke said he would focus his energies in the future on Parler, a social-media app similar to Twitter that’s become popular with conservatives.

“My tweets are not for the feint (sic) of heart and that won’t change,” Clarke wrote.

Clarke also sent The Daily Beast a critical meme about him, comparing the former sheriff to black-face-wearing actor Al Jolson and calling Clarke the “only black life that doesn’t matter.”

“I didn’t complain,” Clarke said in the statement. “Politics is a contact sport. You are going to hit and sometimes you will be hit. Mine aren’t this vile however. People including Twitter officials don’t like my content and I won’t seek their approval.”

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Clarke’s social media missives have raised difficult questions for the platforms; mainly, what role do they play in suppressing disinformation in a time of a global medical crisis and how exactly do they go about undertaking that task.

Clarke isn’t the only prominent Trump supporter downplaying the risks associated with the coronavirus. On Sunday, former New York Police Department commissioner Bernard Kerik suggested that anti-coronavirus measures were hysteria “being created to destabilize the country.”

Why do I feel this hysteria is being created to destabilize the country, and destroy the unparalleled and historic economic successes of President @realDonaldTrump?

Worldwide Deaths... Jan-Feb 2020

2,360: Coronavirus

69,602: Common Cold/Flu

240,950: HIV

— Bernard B. Kerik (@BernardKerik) March 16, 2020

:{Some voices further on the right-wing fringe have also been able to advocate dangerous responses to the coronavirus. An account claiming to belong to:(style="background-color:#ffff66;"):}:**:{ }::{Liz Crokin}::{, a prominent promoter of the Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracy theories who has been banned from Twitter in the past, urged her 10,000 followers }::{not to wash their hands.}:**:{ The account claimed the idea of hand-washing to stop the spread of the coronavirus is “media propaganda.” }:

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right-wing “journalist” and Trump–worshiping conspiracy theorist Liz Crokin posted:{ }a video:{ }::{on YouTube last night in which she declared that the current coronavirus outbreak is really just a cover for the Trump administration to carry out the mass arrests long promised by conspiracy theorists.}:

Like her friend and fellow conspiracy theorist Mark Taylor, who suggested the same thing earlier this week, Crokin is an ardent believer in the QAnon conspiracy theory, which posits that President Donald Trump has been working diligently to arrest countless prominent political, media, and business leaders for allegedly being part of a global satanic pedophile ring.

In early 2019, Crokin publicly declared that if the mass arrests long promised by “Q” did not happen by the end of the year, she would “bow out” of the movement and “move on” with her life. The arrests never happened, but Crokin refused to give up, and she is now claiming that the coronavirus outbreak may really be cover for them to finally occur.

“I do believe that when these mass arrests happen that we will be in martial law for our own safety,”Crokin said. “I believe that the coronavirus, which the president of the United States and many doctors have said is no more serious than the flu, is the cover to put the country into lockdown—just like Italy is in lockdown—to possibly declare martial law, get people off the streets, keep them in their homes, so they’re safe so when the military and the National Guard sweeps in and conducts these mass arrests, it is done in a manner where people are kept safe.”

“Since 2017, Q has been talking about these mass arrests, and Q has also been talking about how when these mass arrests happen, there will probably be many days of darkness, social media might go down, the National Guard is going to come in, and the military will be used to arrest these people,” she added. “That is what I believe is happening right now.”

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MARCH 18, 2019 12:51 PM

Liz Crokin: College Admissions Scandal Proves QAnon’s ‘Mass Arrests Are Happening’

FEBRUARY 4, 2019 2:04 PM

Liz Crokin Warns of ‘Vigilante Justice’ if QAnon’s Promised Mass Arrests Don’t Happen Soon

JANUARY 30, 2019 11:28 AM

Liz Crokin Says She’ll ‘Have to Bow Out’ of QAnon Movement if ‘Mass Arrests Don’t Happen This Year’

JULY 9, 2018 10:49 AM

Liz Crokin: Trump Has Confirmed That ‘Pizzgate Is Rea

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Right-wing “journalist” Liz Crokin appeared on Sheila Zilinsky’s podcast earlier this week, where the two unhinged conspiracy theorists discussed Crokin’s assertion that a video exists showing Hillary Clinton sexually abusing and torturing a child.

“I understand that there is a video circulating on the dark web of [Clinton] eating the face of a child,” Zilinsky said. “Does this video exist?”

“Yes,” responded Crokin. “There are videos that prove that Hillary Clinton is involved in child sex trafficking and pedophilia. I have sources that have told me that; I trust these sources, so there is evidence that exists that proves that she is involved in this stuff … I believe with all my heart that this is true.”

After claiming that “the deep state” targeted former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn for destruction because he and his son “were exposing Pizzagate,” Crokin insisted that media reports warning about the ability to use modern technology to create fake videos that make it appear as if famous people are saying or doing things are secretly a part of an effort to prepare the public to dismiss the Clinton video when it is finally released.

“Based off of what lies they report, I can tell what they’re afraid of, I can tell what’s really going on behind the scenes,” she said. “So the fact that they are saying, ‘Oh, if a tape comes out involving Hillary or Obama doing like a sex act or x, y, z, it’s fake news,’ that tells me that there are tapes that incriminate Obama and Hillary.”

As further proof that such tapes exist, Crokin repeated her claim that President Trump’s tweet of a link to a fringe right-wing conspiracy website that featured a video of her discussing this supposed Clinton tape was confirmation of the veracity of her claims.

“When President Trump retweeted MAGA Pill, MAGA Pill’s tweet was my video talking about Hillary Clinton’s sex tape,” she insisted. “I know President Trump, I’ve met him, I’ve studied him, I’ve reported on him … I’ve known him and of him and reported on him for a very long time. I understand how his brain works, I understand how he thinks, I understand ‘The Art of War,’ his favorite book, I understand this man. And I know that President Trump—there’s no way that he didn’t know when he retweeted MAGA Pill that my video talking about Hillary Clinton’s sex tape was MAGA Pill’s pinned tweet. There is no way that President Trump didn’t know that.”

“The man is actually a genius, he has a very high I.Q. and everything he does is intentional,” Crokin continued. “He retweeted MAGA Pill because he wants people to know the truth about Hillary Clinton, that she is a pedophile and that there is a video exposing her as a pedophile … He couldn’t directly retweet my video, but he directly confirmed for me that I was on the right path and that is true, because if it wasn’t true, I do not believe he would have retweeted someone that had my video as their pinned tweet. He is too smart for that.”

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