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The guardian reports on a sobering event in Washington DC.
US police have arrested a man wielding an assault rifle who entered a pizza restaurant that was the target of fake news reports it was operating a child abuse ring led by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her top campaign aide.
[...] The suspect entered the restaurant and pointed a gun at a restaurant employee, who fled and notified authorities, police said. The man then discharged the weapon inside the restaurant. There were no injuries.
[...] [Police] said the suspect during an interview with investigators revealed that he came to the establishment to "self-investigate" Pizzagate, the police statement said. Pizzagate is a baseless conspiracy, which falsely claims Clinton and her campaign chief John Podesta were running a child sex ring from the restaurant's backrooms.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @02:38PM
But voting in a conspiracy-theorist in chief is news. The guy built his political "credibility" on the birther conspiracy.
And its not like he's the only one in there, what with general flynn pushing pedo-conspiracies [cnn.com] and flynn's chief of staff (who is also his son) getting on twitter to defend the legitimacy of pizzagate [soylentnews.org] after this guy was arrested.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @06:23PM
As opposed to "the evil Russians hacked me/Podesta/the DNC" NOT being a "conspiracy theory".