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Almost two weeks ago, the US Department of Justice announced that it had foiled a plot by Proper and a number of co-conspirators to assassinate Donald Trump and other elected officials at the Ultimate Fighting Championship event recently held at the White House. As of Friday, eight people from around the country are in custody. All appear to be men in their 20s or early 30s.

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[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 67 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Unsurprisingly, right-wing media is lying, claiming that these were lefties:

some conservative media outlets have seized on aspects of the story to imply that the plotters were actually bad seeds of the far left. One of the alleged plotters, an article in the Federalist argued, “parroted Democrat conspiracy theories about President Trump protecting child predators connected to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein”.

Also, Donald Trump does protect child predators connected to sex offender and former best buddy of Trump, Jeffrey Epstein.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

"Democrat"-ic camera taking photos of the two together?

"Democrat"-ic birthday card Trump wrote and signed for Epstein?

"Democrat"-ic condoms depicting Trump saying I'M HUUUUGE?

"Democrat"-ic Mike Johnson saying just yesterday he is running a protection program for keeping Trump connected Republicans with potential dirty laundry away from investigation or prosecution?

[-] subverted_per 11 points 2 hours ago

I thought it was interesting at the time how it was a conspiracy of like five dudes, but the headline across several news sites was like, "two dudes from California lead conspiracy to assassinate the president."

[-] lectricleopard@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

Lefty rhetoric, like the truth. SMH. If they still believe it then they never will.

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