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Crazy MAGA Lady Says Capitol Rioters Wearing Trump Shirts And Hats Weren’t Trump Supporters

When former President Donald Trump continually and baselessly claimed the presidential election was “stolen” enough gullible people believed and it led to the Capitol riots on Jan. 6th, but now it seems some people are even more gullible than that, according to Raw Story. Now a slow fog of lies is spreading and whispering that the riots never happened and it appears at least some of the easily hoodwinked Trump supporters are believing them.

In one of the strangest interviews I’ve heard in a while, CNN reporter Donie O’Sullivan interviewed a woman at Trump National Doral, whom it appears, is easily duped. The woman, Kinnet Ehring McSweeney, whose name has sort of a “Karen” air to it, told Sullivan:

“And I do believe the election was stolen and I do believe it was a peaceful rally that day,” McSweeney told him. “And that, just because people who were in the Capitol were wearing Trump shirts and Trump hats doesn’t necessarily make them Trump supporters — anyone can get one of those shirts.”

It’s beyond me how anyone can think the siege was a “peaceful rally,” considering what most of us witnessed in video footage of that day and the fact that five people lost their lives. Does this woman live on Neptune? And I’m sorry, but the only people who’d wear Trump shirts and hats are Trump supporters, period. No matter what her colorful imagination tells her.

McSweeney also told O’Sullivan her friends and family think she’s nuts and a “conspiracy theory.” I’m going to hazard a guess that they might not be wrong here. At that point, and in a similar vein, the CNN journalist decided to ask her what she thinks about “QAnon congresswoman” Marjorie Taylor Greene and her conspiracy theories.

“I don’t know what’s so terrible about QAnon,” she said of the bonkers theory that there’s a cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles aiming to control the world. “You know, what is so terrible about conspiracy theories, anyway?”

What’s so terrible about conspiracy theories? Well, as we’ve seen with the “peaceful rally” on Jan. 6, sometimes they get people killed. These “theories” nearly led to the re-election of perhaps the most corrupt President in U.S. history. How about that for a start? They may well have led to more deaths during the pandemic, and I’m willing to bet they can cause more harm than I can possibly imagine right now.

But it’s not just that — before Trump became president, these theories were little more than white noise. People were discussing them but they didn’t gain prominence until Trump’s election and suddenly we had a whole cast of unpleasant characters — Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller, Bill Barr, Mike Pompeo, Kellyanne Conway, and Kayleigh McEnany and the conspiracy theory was now alive and well in America.

Now that Trump is no longer president and most of these people are out of the public eye, I hope the conspiracy theories will fade to the background to become little more than white noise again.

In the clip below, you’ll see that McSweeney is almost unbelievable. How sad that people can be this gullible.

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Megan has lived in California, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida and she currently lives in Central America. Living in these places has informed her writing on politics, science, and history. She is currently owned by 15 cats and 3 dogs and regularly owns Trump supporters when she has the opportunity. She can be found on Twitter at https://twitter.com/GaiaLibra and Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/politicalsaurus

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