Debunked by Casey Lytle

Author:Casey Lytle
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780744061758
Publisher: DK Publishing

With false flag shootings and the truthers behind us, it’s time to dive into the all-time award winner of conspiracy theory fails: QAnon.

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Chapter 9

Qanon & the 2020 Presidential Election

The internet in general and social media specifically have changed the landscape of conspiracy theory from something that historically existed in small, isolated clusters of followers to a phenomenon that could gain an audience very quickly and spread globally within hours.

What came to be known as QAnon has its roots in many smaller threads of conspiracy theories that have been around for decades. In Chapter 11, we’ll talk about the concept of the Deep State, which has been around in one form or another for hundreds of years and persists today—a nearly omnipotent catchall bucket used by conspiracy theorists when a theory lacks tangible evidence or logical reasoning. It’s a broad umbrella over the tapestry of conspiracies that came together online to form QAnon.

The Clintons have long been a target of propaganda and conspiracy theories dating back to the Whitewater investigation. Whitewater was a development investment deal the Clintons joined in the late 1970s that ultimately failed in the 1980s. It wasn’t initially controversial until Bill Clinton ran for president in 1992, at which time it was conveniently brought to the forefront and spawned multiple investigations. Ultimately, several people involved in the deal were convicted of fraud and one of the main drivers behind the deal, James (Jim) McDougal, died in prison of a heart attack in 1998 during Bill Clinton’s second presidential term. Multiple investigations confirmed the Clintons’ financial interests but didn’t find a connection between them and any of the fraud committed by other players. President Clinton himself initiated a federal investigation into Whitewater, which led to the Ken Starr investigation that ultimately revealed the president’s affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. When Clinton lied about the affair under oath, it became the basis for the impeachment proceedings that dominated his second term in office.

It’s not hard to see how the Clintons might encourage a thousand conspiracy theories associating them with secret crimes. The death of McDougal was the root of the later infamous “Hillary Hit List” of people the Clintons supposedly had killed in order to cover their crimes. (We’ll cover that briefly in Chapter 11.)

Before we follow this path, let’s take our project management approach and apply it to this first conspiracy: that the Clintons had McDougal killed in prison to shut him up. If the goal is to keep him from talking, does this achieve the goal? Yes, most definitely. Is it practical? No. He’d already gone through trial; he was already in prison. His death would raise suspicion. There would’ve been better opportunities before he was arrested if the plan was to cut off loose ends and his wife Susan McDougal would’ve been a target too. If the plan was to stop people from incriminating the Clintons, there were many better targets who’d have been eliminated much earlier, and by the time McDougal died, the issue was mostly over.

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