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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 Wednesday December 07 2016, @01:38AM
I find that there is just enough circumstantial evidence there to warrant suspicion. It's certainly not enough to justify the conclusion given, but it's not as contrived as your analogies make it out to be either. I'm not saying all the conclusions are necessarily solid, but the pizza emails are reasonable evidence that there could be something amiss there, even if it's just drugs and hookers.
Just because someone has an an elaborate conspiracy theory doesn't mean there isn't a conspiracy.