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Yet Another Donald Trump Pick Has A Habit Of Spreading Dangerous Conspiracy Theories
A history of peddling debunked theories won’t guarantee you a spot in Trumpland — but it apparently doesn’t hurt.
President-elect Donald Trump announced Thursday that he’s chosen Fox News contributor Monica Crowley as the National Security Council’s senior director of strategic communications. If her conspiracy theory-pushing past is any indication, she’ll fit right in with several of Trump’s administration picks.
Crowley promoted a debunked theory that Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin had ties to “Islamic supremacists” ― a claim proven false by The Washington Post, Snopes and other sources.
A CNN report found Crowley repeatedly spread this phony information through various channels, including op-eds and guest appearances on radio shows and Fox News.
In August, Crowley called Abedin’s parents “essentially tools of the Saudi regime” on Fox News’ “Hannity.” A month later, she wrote that Abedin’s family had “alleged ties to the Muslim Brotherhood” in a Washington Times piece.
But Crowley’s unsubstantiated claims aren’t limited to targeting Abedin. She was a vocal proponent of the birther movement, often calling President Barack Obama’s citizenship into question. In 2008, she suggested Obama lied about his blackness.
“[Obama is] not black African, he is Arab African,” she said on Laura Ingraham’s radio show. “And yet, this guy is campaigning as black and painting anybody who dares to criticize him as a racist. I mean that is — it is the biggest con I think I’ve ever seen.”
Crowley isn’t the first Trump pick with a history of peddling conspiracy theories.
David Friedman, whom Trump nominated as ambassador to Israel earlier this week, is another Abedin conspiracy theory believer. At an October rally in Jerusalem, he told the crowd that Abedin has “close connections to the Muslim Brotherhood.”
nd there’s Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, whom Trump tapped to be his top national security adviser. Flynn tweeted a fake news story in November on the #Pizzagate hoax, an absurd claim tying Clinton to a made-up underground child molestation ring based out of a Washington, D.C. pizza place named Comet Ping Pong.
U decide - NYPD Blows Whistle on New Hillary Emails: Money Laundering, Sex Crimes w Children, etc...MUST READ! https://t.co/O0bVJT3QDr— General Flynn (@GenFlynn) November 3, 2016
#Pizzagate inspired an armed man to fire his weapon inside the restaurant earlier this month (fortunately, no one was injured). When asked about his motives, the accused gunman cited the conspiracy theory, admitting that the “intel on this wasn’t 100 percent.”
The Comet Ping Pong incident didn’t stop Flynn’s son, Michael Flynn Jr. ― then a member of Trump’s transition team ― from continuing to push the false claim a day later.
Until #Pizzagate proven to be false, it’ll remain a story. The left seems to forget #PodestaEmails and the many “coincidences” tied to it. https://t.co/8HA9y30Yfp— Michael G Flynn🇺🇸 (@mflynnJR) December 5, 2016
While Flynn Jr. was fired from Trump’s transition for spreading fake news, Flynn Sr. quietly deleted the original tweet and held on to his national security position.
And then, of course, there’s Trump himself, who claimed he’d witnessed thousands of New Jersey Muslims celebrate 9/11, accused the father of former presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) of playing a role in the assassination President John F. Kennedy, and gave the birther movement an unprecedented platform ― to name just a few of the conspiracy theories he’s peddled.
The paranoia runs deep. But hey, it’s not like the misinformation is being shared by people deciding the fate of our national security or anything.
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