How the #Trump Campaign Ran With Rumors [#lies] About Pet-Eating Migrants—After Being Told They Weren’t True

#Springfield, #Ohio, city ofcls were contacted by #JDVance’s team & said the claims were baseless. It didn’t matter & now the town is in #chaos.

#RecklessEndangerment #CulpableNegligence #law #StochasticTerrorism #racism #hate #ConspiracyTheories

#HarrisWalz2024
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/springfield-ohio-pet-eating-claims-haitian-migrants-04598d48

#GiftArticle

THE #INSURRECTIONISTS NEXT DOOR

#AshliBabbitt’s mother & the wife of a notorious #Jan6 rioter are at the center of a new mythology on the #right. They are also my neighbors.

By Hanna Rosin

#radicalization #DomesticTerrorism #extremism #MAGA #Republicans #PoliticalViolence #Insurrection #BigLie #ConspiracyTheories #Trump
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/10/jan-6-capitol-attack-ashli-babbitt-dc-residents/679563/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxcAtglrydgqNGsTv5vo8OhU&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

The Insurrectionists Next Door

Ashli Babbitt’s mother and the wife of a notorious January 6 rioter are at the center of a new mythology on the right. They are also my neighbors.

^{Hanna Rosin (The Atlantic)}

His remarks were the latest in a swirl of canards that #Trump has spread about #Haitian #immigrants, despite [#law enforcement], #local [+ #state & #federal government] officials debunking the claims [over & over & over]. Leaders in #Springfield have said the claims are harming the #community, which has been forced to #evacuate #schools, #CityHall & other buildings after receiving #threats due to Trump’s remarks.

#FactCheck #TrumpLies #dangerous #racist #ConspiracyTheories #WhiteNationalism

POS #TedCruz Shares #Racist #Immigration #Conspiracy

Sen Ted Cruz has joined the “Haitian #immigrants are eating house cats” [idiotic] #ConspiracyTheory, sharing a meme…on Mon that he presumably thinks is funny.

But as the internet was quick to remind him, Cruz probably shouldn’t be getting involved in spreading any #ConspiracyTheories involving pets.

#TedCruzSucks #VoteColinAllred

https://newrepublic.com/post/185742/ted-cruz-reminder-migrants-pets-conspiracy

Ted Cruz Gets Brutal Reminder After Sharing Racist Migrants Conspiracy

Senator Ted Cruz really thought he did something with this one.

^{The New Republic}

“It’s Russia, Russia, Russia all over again. But they don’t look at China & they don’t look at Iran. They look at Russia. I don’t know what it is with poor Russia,” #Trump said.

[POOR #RUSSIA?]

Trump’s rally…, was billed as focused on “draining the swamp,” but featured a stump speech that meandered from familiar attacks on inflation & jobs to falsehoods about sex-change operations for minors, #ConspiracyTheories about govt employment statistics & dismissals of Russian #ElectionInterference.

#Trump’s Baseless Claims [#lies] About the Assassination Attempt Are #Dangerous

His growing effort to blame #Biden & #Harris for the shooting isn’t supported by ANY #evidence. But experts say it could stir #violence.

#FactCheck #TrumpLies
#Incitement #extremism #radicalization #PoliticalViolence #DomesticTerrorism
#weird #insane #Nonsense #ConspiracyTheories
#WeAreNotGoingBack
#CommonSense #sanity #RealityBasedPolitics #HarrisWalz2024
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/08/trump-assassination-attempt-blame-biden-harris/

Trump's baseless claims about the assassination attempt are dangerous

His growing effort to blame Biden and Harris for the shooting isn't supported by any evidence. But experts say it could stir violence.

^{Mother Jones}