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Welcome back to False Flag! I wrote on Monday about how the Blaze fired reporter Steve Baker, the face of their now-retracted story that suggested, based on gait analysis, that a Capitol Police officer laid the pipe bombs on January 6th.
The breaking point came after Baker taped an interview on Megyn Kelly’s show about the pipe bombs. Facing a looming lawsuit threat from the former officer, the Blaze canned him.
Now it seems that Kelly doesn’t want to be facing a multi-million-dollar libel suit, either. On Wednesday, Baker announced that Kelly was dropping his interview—because, as you could probably guess, it couldn’t clear a legal review.
At this point, the only people still clinging to Baker’s work are the lawyers for the actually indicted pipe-bomb suspect, Brian Cole Jr., who have eagerly adopted Baker’s alternative theories in the hope of getting their client cleared.
One note: My weekly MAGA Monday livestream with Sam Stein will be off this coming Monday. But we’ll be back Monday, April 20, with even more right-wing media craziness to sort through. The more of you that sign up for Bulwark+, the longer we will go!
–Will
MAGA Influencers Are Salivating Over Jailing Each Other
And it’s all over a supposed DOJ probe into whether foreign money is influencing conservative content on Iran.
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THE WORLD OF MAGA INFLUENCERS is growing more divided over Donald Trump’s war with Iran. But so far, those influencers largely aren’t blaming the president for their divisions.
Instead, they are pointing to a new culprit: The reason conservatives are at each other’s throats, they argue, is that they’re being paid by foreign sources to, essentially, bicker.
On Wednesday, the right descended into a feeding frenzy over unsubstantiated rumors of a Justice Department investigation into whether certain conservative commentators were being paid by foreign sources to argue for and against the war.
Social media luminaries as grand as “Catturd” himself were thrilled at the idea of seeing fellow influencers arrested.
“DO IT !!!” declared Mr. Turd.
Others went even further, calling for banishments. “Influencers who take foreign money and don’t disclose it should be deported to the country they took the money from,” declared right-wing commentator Jack Posobiec, a former key booster of a Russian intelligence hack himself. He eagerly welcomed the prospect of the imagined probe.
We don’t take foreign cash. We don’t fantasize about jailing our fellow ideological travelers. We just do our thing. Join us.
It’s worth noting early that, while there is a rich and well-documented history of conservative influencers being on the dole, there’s so far no evidence of that happening in this particular instance. The idea of there being an investigation appears to have come from a popular anonymous right-wing account, “0H0UR,” which posted what appeared to be a news bulletin on X Wednesday morning: “United States to investigate American Influencers taking foreign money.”
In a right-wing media landscape divided between pro-Israel supporters of Trump’s war with Iran, like Mark Levin, and war critics and Israel opponents, like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, each side welcomed the prospect of the Justice Department getting ready to put their ideological foes in handcuffs.
Imagining the DOJ investigation as some kind of national pundit audit, podcaster Graham Allen offered to preemptively hand his financials over to the government to prove he’s clean of foreign-funding and not one of the “grifters.” Alex Bruesewitz, a Trump associate who functions primarily as the president’s Nicki Minaj whisperer, treated the discovery of a foreign influence campaign as a fait accompli in a Wednesday morning post on X.
BECAUSE SO MANY conservative influencers have actually engaged in pay-to-post arrangements in the past, it’s become commonplace for members of this community to accuse their intramural foes of being on the take.
Just a few weeks ago, country music sensation Alexis Wilkins, the girlfriend of FBI director Kash Patel, claimed she had uncovered a wide-ranging foreign influence network to make people think she’s a Mossad operative. And who could forget Laura Loomer’s nickname for Carlson: “Tucker Qatarlson”?
But the enthusiasm for a Justice Department probe is nota