Hillary Clinton, a former Secretary of State, was quick to find the bandwagon this past Saturday, jumping up next to a large number of liberal pundits and other elected Democrats who rushed to throw the blame for the incident against the Republican Party for an alleged violent assault on Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA).
Clinton chose to take the echo chamber to heart and expose these sentiments from people such as President Joe Biden and MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell, who attempted to suggest that the politically charged anger and strong rhetoric that had been the force that spawned the January 6th riot on Capitol Hill had spread to Pelosi’s San Francisco home.
“The Republican Party and its mouthpieces now regularly spread hate and deranged conspiracy theories,” stated Clinton via a tweet. “It is shocking, but not surprising, that violence is the result. As citizens, we must hold them accountable for their words and the actions that follow.”
The Republican Party and its mouthpieces now regularly spread hate and deranged conspiracy theories. It is shocking, but not surprising, that violence is the result. As citizens, we must hold them accountable for their words and the actions that follow.https://t.co/MQor4NDFeE
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 29, 2022
Clinton highlighted an article out of The Los Angeles Times which identified the alleged attack as Devid DePape — who has officially been arrested and slammed with charged of attempted homicide, along with other various charges — as a person who “spread QAnon, other far-right, bigoted conspiracy theories.”
Elon Musk, the CEO of both Tesla and SpaceX, issued his own criticism — in a Twitter post that has since been taken down– expressing an alternate theory, highlighting an article out of The Santa Monica Observer that issued a long list of claims — not the least concerning of which was that Pelosi had brought DePape home with him from an area gay bar.
“There is a tiny possibility there might be more to this story than meets the eye,” stated Musk in a tweet.
The report put out by the Observer seemed to be entirely false, however, which could be why musk ended up taking down his tweet.
Isaac Stanley-Becker, a reporter from the Washington Post, tweeted, “Incorrect and already retracted reporting by a Fox affiliate in SF and a fake story in the Santa Monica Observer have powered viral misinformation about the Paul Pelosi attack, amplified by a ton of people with huge platforms, including the ‘Chief Twit.'”
Incorrect and already retracted reporting by a Fox affiliate in SF and a fake story in the Santa Monica Observer have powered viral misinformation about the Paul Pelosi attack, amplified by a ton of people with huge platforms, including the "Chief Twit" https://t.co/OvorFjSIQs
— Isaac Stanley-Becker (@isaacstanbecker) October 30, 2022
Kyle Griffin, a producer for MSNBC, went on to add, “The ‘outlet’ Elon Musk cited to spread dangerous lies has a history of making conspiratorial, false, and hoax-filled claims — including that Hillary Clinton died during the 2016 campaign and was replaced by a lookalike.”
The 'outlet' Elon Musk cited to spread dangerous lies has a history of making conspiratorial, false, and hoax-filled claims — including that Hillary Clinton died during the 2016 campaign and was replaced by a lookalike.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 30, 2022
Jack Posobiec, the senior editor of Human Events, pointed out a message he stated came from “Carpe” — which is most likely the person behind the banned Twitter account t @CarpeDonktum — which argued that whether or not the story Musk expressed was true or not was not the issue at all. Instead, he claimed what the important bit of this was that an alternate viewpoint– whether or not it was accurate — was allowed to stand on the platform at all.
“I don’t have any idea whether the article Elon shared is accurate or not, that isn’t what’s important. What IS important is that Elon has shown in the most public way imaginable, that Twitter will henceforward be a place where you can post an alternate viewpoint of what is happening in the world today,” explained the message.
“For many years now, a post like this would see you banned. The left is terrified that they no longer have the market cornered on disinformation and spin. Now the infowar can REALLY begin.”
Carpe just sent me this pic.twitter.com/7wKKihvHTd
— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) October 30, 2022