Police detain Trump in New York.
Does Joe Biden intend to eliminate his main political rival by arresting him for a trivial matter? Do they want to lock Trump up in some remote, dark place like Guantánamo until the whole world forgets he even existed? Is George Soros behind prosecutor Alvin Bragg’s investigation that could put him on the bench? All these questions and many more are circulating today through the networks after the former Republican president proclaimed his own arrest a few days ago for paying money to a porn actress with whom he had an affair in exchange for not revealing details.
It doesn’t matter if there was any accounting irregularity in that pact (buying silence is not punishable by law, but if the transaction was done fiscally well) or that the man called to lead the United States acted with the supposed ethics. The bottom line is that there is a conspiracy against Donald Trump for telling the boatman’s truths orchestrated by billionaires, pedophile Democrats, and political leaders who want to wipe out the “white majority.” Praise be to Trump, who this weekend has decided to demonstrate in Waco (Texas) on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the confrontation between the FBI and the US Army with members of the Branch Davidiana, a small Christian sect headed by the self-proclaimed prophet David Koresh and provided with sufficient weapons to equip the “Army of God”, as he himself called his faithful. Entrenched in a farm, the confrontation lasted 51 days and ended with 76 deaths, including about twenty children and four federal agents.
The Republican leader seems to have calculated his steps in the last week to shake up an underworld that seemed minimally tamed and emerge again as the victim of the ‘Deep State’, the one where Democrats eat children (literal conspiracy theory) and which provoked last month’s horrific toxic-waste train accident in Ohio with the intent to kill all white, right-wing residents of a small rural community (an equally literal theory). The announcement of his arrest in the case of actress Stormy Daniels has electrified Trump forums in a way that had not been seen since the Republican leader called his electoral defeat in November 2020 a fraud or congressional investigations linked him to the assault on the Capitol in January 2021.
“Common in Modern America”
The first consequence has been the death threats against prosecutor Alvin Bragg, in charge of the possible accusation. Numerous media outlets have also censored Trump’s announced rally in Waco, a recurring metaphor for the extreme right against government control. But, nevertheless, the tycoon also has solid support, entrenched in that 56% of “patriots” who proclaim their desire for him to return to the White House,
Tucker Carlson, Fox News political commentator and conservative icon, has defended him because “paying people not to talk about things is common in modern America.” And South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, who competed with him in the Republican primaries in 2016, has gone even further and fully entered into the dark hypotheses of the conspiracy by pointing out that prosecutor Bragg has the “backing” of the Billionaire George Soros, who in 2021 would have supported his career for the New York Prosecutor’s Office.
What else can make fans happy than this connection? The Hungarian-born American billionaire was also linked at the time to the coronavirus epidemic. Several conspiracy publications claimed that both Soros and Bill Gates were in charge of a plan aimed at “controlling the world” through the inoculation of anti-covid vaccines. There are still no signs that the apparent chip thus inserted into the population has turned the planet into an episode of ‘The Last of Us’.
Even the courts in Peru embraced the theory that the virus was created by both billionaires and the Rockefeller family. According to some researchers, it makes sense that such hypotheses took root in this way since QAnon and its related organizations, which also have branches in Europe and, logically, Spain, have created a solid international network. The epidemic gave a notable boost to these small groups in the United Kingdom (which, for example, has declared the Sonnenkrieg Division and the System Resistance Network as terrorists), Denmark or Germany, where conspiracy theorists claim that the Berlin Pergamon Museum, endowed with extensive heritage of classical civilizations, hides “the throne of Satan.”
Although the conspiracies are not just a matter of Gates or Soros. 25% of Americans have been convinced that the pandemic was an example of the power of the “new world order” or a UN plan to “depopulate the planet”, a story more to the taste of The Base or Atomwaffen, enemy organizations of the minorities, the neo-Nazis and the accelerationists, the branch that bets on ‘accelerating’ the collapse to build a society exclusively directed by whites.
QAnon is a broad-spectrum movement linked to the extreme right and supremacism that began in 2017. It considers Trump as the “savior” of the United States against the “satanic sect” made up mainly of Democrats (cannibals, pedophiles, and dictators) and it has permeated strongly among American conservatives as well as other more radical or lunatic sectors. There is, therefore, a certain fear in Washington and the FBI that this organization will come crashing down again, as it did in the days before the attack on the Capitol, if the tycoon is arrested.
an alternate world
For now, Trump’s arrest is only fictional. Some images of the arrest made by the founder of the Bellingcat investigative medium, Eliot Higgins, with the help of artificial intelligence have flooded the networks and forums and managed to deceive more than one Internet user. Made without any intention of polemicizing, they have been viewed more than five million times and sparked debate about the ability to distort reality offered by digital technology.
The images appear authentic, but only with limited realism. In some, the Republican leader appears running in front of the Police in an apparent escape attempt, in others with the orange prison jumpsuit and even her wife, Melania, is seen broken down in tears surrounded by agents. A close look uncovers grating details, such as what appears to be a condition of the New York Police to hire people who are missing a finger or the biological dysfunction of the former president, who has six on one hand. From there, the lizard of ‘V’va poco’ appears in a corner. His sprint to law enforcement also feels a bit forced, more like a sexual roadrunner than a man in his seventies running from beefy officers. They are the defects of synthetic reality. But to discover it, that is what is needed: a thorough and thorough look. To which one could add: the truthful knowledge of the news that only the professional media provide.
Is ‘ad hoc’ legislation needed for this type of use of artificial intelligence, on pain of falling into a world where no one knows what is true or false of what they see? Can Trump rule the White House in the metaverse? Democratic Sen. Mark R. Warner, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is convinced that it is. “We are at a point where these tools are widely available and incredibly capable,” says this politician, who has warned for years of how this type of technology “can spread misinformation and sow confusion and discord.” Like Warner, other legislators fear the consequences of conspiracy groups having the opportunity to create alternate realities that, “if they are capable of deceiving anyone, become weapons of destruction in the case of fanatics and radicals.”
Despite the power of the platforms to neutralize or eliminate this type of image, in the case of Trump’s ‘arrest’, at least one remained on the Facebook account of an ex-soldier with the phrase: “In a turn of events without In precedents, former President Donald Trump was arrested and escorted to federal prison.” And there are other notable ‘pearls’, such as the fictitious video where Biden is shown ordering the recruitment of Americans for the war in Ukraine or the disparate messages from QAnon that as soon as it assures that the invasion is a hoax as it defends it because the ‘authentic ‘Russia’s goal is to destroy US and NATO biological laboratories in the former republic.
“That offers an idea of how these movements work: everything revolves around spreading falsehoods, agitating and creating a feeling of permanent suspicion that reality always hides a dark and secret motive. That encourages instability”, say the experts, who again use the Ohio derailment supposedly coordinated by the Biden government to spill toxic liquids as an example “that would affect only the white population”. An “absurd”, yes, but capable of angering a sector of the population “without even being a fan.”
Perhaps the most daring of the fictitious constructions occurred on January 16, 2019, when groups of simulated delivery men distributed numerous false copies of the capital’s leading newspaper, ‘The Washington Post’, in Washington, where it was denounced that Trump, then president, he had left the White House simply leaving a note written on a napkin saying “he was leaving.” From there, to the images that portray him in custody, it is possible to draw a conclusion: the president is the favorite of all conspiracy theorists.
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