Court files show how men connected through TikTok and encrypted apps planned attack on White House UFC fight

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.

  • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
    1812·
    20 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.

    • Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      1 hour ago

      parroted Democrat conspiracy theories about President Trump protecting child predators connected to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein

      It’s not a conspiracy theory if it’s a quantifiable fact with substantial evidence to back it up

    • Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish
      271·
      17 hours 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@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      33·
      18 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.”