Pizzagate

Pizzagate  (“Conspiracy theory”,  fake news,  Human trafficking)
The Comet Ping Pong on Connecticut Avenue in Chevy Chase, Washington, D.C.
Interest of	• Liz Crokin • Ben Swann
Important conspiracy in the US/2016 Presidential election campaign.

According to Wikipedia, Pizzagate is a "discredited and disproven" conspiracy theory that came to prominence during the 2016 United States presidential election. It alleged that high ranking Democratic Party officials were affiliated with an alleged human trafficking and child sex ring, that was run out of restaurants and retail businesses in the DC area.

The theory was then "debunked" by the Washington, D.C. police and Snopes.

A shooting at the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria a month after the election put Pizzagate in the headlines.

People and organisations involved

• Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State and presidential candidate
• John Podesta, campaign chair
• James Alefantis, co-founder and owner of the pizzeria
• Carole Greenwood, co-founder of the pizzeria
• Alex Jones, major proponent
• Edgar Maddison Welch, the shooter
• David Brock, founder of Media Matters for America
• Jeffrey Epstein, associate of the Clintons who was dead three years later
• Wikileaks
• Alt-right
• 4chan trolls
• 8chan

Resources

Earth-Shattering Facts That Would Turn Washington Upside Down

 

Related Quotation

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Ben Swann	“The story itself was vetted at a higher degree than any other story in the five years that I was working with them, was vetted higher than any other story. Because I chose to self-vet it through the highest levels of editorial control at our station. Which I didn't have to do and I chose to do that because of the sensitivity of the subject matter we were talking about. And so it ran through the highest levels of journalists at that entity, all the way up through news managers, who have had 30-40 years in the business, were looking at it. And when they came back and said was 'yeah this is solid, it's totally solid'. [...] And one thing that I forgot is, there was so much that we couldn't say, so much that we intentionally left out because it was so wild, we couldn't put some of it on TV.”	Ben Swann	30 January 2023

 

Known Participants

All 4 of the participants already have pages here:

Participant	Description
James Alefantis	Controversial owner of Comet Ping Pong.
Hillary Clinton	“Too big to jail”
John Podesta
Tony Podesta

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