This is probably the most successful 4chan /pol/ hoax of the past decade outside of QAnon — still going around years after a 4chan user made it up in December 2020 — & very few probably know about it.
During a right-wing podcast interview a few days ago, John Eastman, the attorney who aided Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election, appeared to push a 2020 4chan hoax regarding Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts & the 2020 election. www.mediamatters.org/4chan/viral-...
Election deniers have for weeks targeted Texas' March 3 primaries (& a January special election in the state), baselessly claiming there's been “massive” fraud & cheating in those races.
Republicans have full control of the Texas government, including its chief election officer.
My latest:
This is probably the most successful 4chan /pol/ hoax of the past decade outside of QAnon — still going around years after a 4chan user made it up in December 2020 — & very few probably know about it.
During a right-wing podcast interview a few days ago, John Eastman, the attorney who aided Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election, appeared to push a 2020 4chan hoax regarding Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts & the 2020 election. www.mediamatters.org/4chan/viral-...
The claims about Texas' elections come as multiple election deniers have drafted and/or advocated for a Trump “national emergency” executive order to allow a federal takeover of election processes.
On podcasts & on social media, multiple prominent election deniers have claimed that there was “massive fraud” & “massive cheating” that tainted the Texas primary & special elections, with votes being “switched” & featuring “ghost voting IDs,” & the the state's races “should not be certified.”
Election deniers have for weeks targeted Texas' March 3 primaries (& a January special election in the state), baselessly claiming there's been “massive” fraud & cheating in those races.
Republicans have full control of the Texas government, including its chief election officer.
My latest:
Washington Post: Nick Fuentes spreads hate online. He's pocketed nearly $900,000 from “fanatical” donors since the start of 2025.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
"It’s not clear who created the A.I. accounts, and determining whether they are the product of a hired content farm, a foreign influence operation, an experiment or something else is difficult, experts said."
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/b...
Among the things Kash Patel did during the time he was extensively trying to appeal to the QAnon community (2022 & 2023) was posting that he was "having a beer with @Q." (That Q account also posted about having a beer with Patel & mentioned lawsuits.) www.mediamatters.org/truth-social...
(Also, Shadow of Ezra, the account shown on screen during Boebert's interview, is a known QAnon influencer.)
From Vice: "Here’s what that theory, which originated on conspiracy site YourNewsWire (now known as News Punch) in April 2018, claims: A video that was found on the laptop of Anthony Weiner, the former Democratic congressman who was jailed in 2017 for sexting with a minor, began circulating on the “dark web.” The video was found in a folder on the laptop’s hard drive called “life insurance” and was named “frazzledrip.” The bogus report says the video — which, to be clear, does not exist on the dark web or anywhere else — shows Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin, Weiner’s former wife and longtime Clinton aide, raping and mutilating a young girl. Specifically, the video is supposed to show Clinton filleting the young girl’s face, and then taking turns with Abedin to wear the girl’s face as a mask in order to purposefully terrify the child so that her blood would be flooded with adrenochrome. The girl then bleeds out before Clinton and Abedin drink the blood during a Satanic ritual sacrifice."
From Vice: "Back in 2018, a QAnon conspiracy theory known as frazzledrip emerged claiming the existence of a video purporting to show Hilary Clinton torturing and killing a young girl before drinking her blood. The video—which for clarity does not exist—was reportedly found by the NYPD on the laptop of Antony Weiner, the former husband of Clinton aide Huma Abedin, who was also said to appear in the video. QAnon then claimed that a high number of suicides within the NYPD in subsequent years was linked to the officers having viewed the video and being so disturbed that they had to take their own lives."
Boebert's remarks echo claims from the far-right/QAnon corners of the internet over the years.
Regarding the supposed file name:
www.vice.com/en/article/m...
And regarding the claim about cops dying after seeing the supposed video:
www.vice.com/en/article/q...
Rep. Lauren Boebert in an interview with Benny Johnson yesterday again pushed the false Frazzledrip conspiracy theory, pushing evidence-free claims that there was a specific file the video was in & officers died after supposedly seeing it. She suggested she wants to investigate the (not real) video.
At a Turning Point USA event yesterday, Vice President Vance said one of the messages in the Epstein files "sounded like the Pizzagate conspiracy theory but here it was in like an email from a guy & my reaction to that was we should absolutely investigate that person."
At a Turning Point USA event yesterday, Vice President Vance said one of the messages in the Epstein files "sounded like the Pizzagate conspiracy theory but here it was in like an email from a guy & my reaction to that was we should absolutely investigate that person."
QAnon figure Pepe Deluxe: "Did they cheat or has Hungary lost their minds? That moves them closer to Europe and their children being raped by foreigners With roughly 45% of the ballots tallied Sunday night, Tisza is projected to win 135 seats out of 199 in the Hungarian legislature."
On the left: Post from far-right forum TheDonald: "Hungary has just voted to commit suicide! Viktor Orban has lost the election to pro-EU Péter Magyar" On the right: Post from major QAnon forum: "Communists steal another election; time for regime change in Hungary."
QAnon figure Neon Revolt: "Hungary had a stolen election. Ask me how I know." The post includes an image of incoming Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar wearing a yamaka.
Far-right blog The Gateway Pundit: "HORRIBLE NEWS: Hungary’s Viktor Orbán Concedes Defeat in High-Stakes Election – Globalist Opposition Leader Péter Magyar Expected To Become Next Prime Minister"
The far-right internet has bemoaned Viktor Orban's election defeat in Hungary, with some baselessly claiming he was a victim of election fraud.
This doesn't mention far-right figure Tommy Robinson's involvement with the caucus, conducting multiple interviews with its members & doing a presentation before the caucus.
(As I noted last month. And Jones has since had a full falling out with Trump.)
New:
"Stop the Steal" organizer Ali Alexander said in an online stream that Trump "is compromised" & "has got to be ripped politically, peacefully, legally, from the Oval Office."
He also said "we all were a bunch of dumb rednecks who voted for him" in 2016.
www.mediamatters.org/ali-alexande...
Trump went on Alex Jones's show in 2015 -- years after Jones was castigated for claiming Sandy Hook was "staged" -- and told the host, "Your reputation's amazing. I will not let you down.” Only now does Trump say the Sandy Hook attacks were "horrendous." www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...
Baker in the past day has made another claim about this.
On a pair of right-wing podcast appearances yesterday, Steve Baker, the now-fired writer at The Blaze who wrote its now-retracted DC pipe bomber piece, seemed to claim that the FBI (under Kash Patel) called executives at The Blaze to "get me shitcanned" over the piece.
Michael Flynn on a stream yesterday gave a "shout out" that included him saying the QAnon slogan.
QAnon forum: "🚨BREAKING: 🚨 The housekeeper of former President Barack Obama has come forward to reveal that Obama was having a HOMOSEXUAL AFFAIR with his now deceased chef that the chef was about to go public with at the time that he was found dead in the water behind Obama's Martha's Vineyard estate of a suppo" Includes an embed of a post pushing the false claim.
Facebook post: "🚨BREAKING: 🚨 The housekeeper of former President Barack Obama has come forward to reveal that Obama was having a HOMOSEXUAL AFFAIR with his now deceased chef that the chef was about to go public with at the time that he was found dead in the water behind Obama's Martha's Vineyard estate of a supposed "accidental drowning". The death was initially determined to be A HOMICIDE by local police until The FBI, then under Joe Biden, swooped in and forced the coroner to change the ca…"
Facebook post: "Obama Housekeeper Blows Lid Off Alleged Gay Affair and Brutal Murder Cover-Up at Martha’s Vineyard! By Jonathan Gregory Washington, D.C..- April 7, 2026 The longtime housekeeper for former President Barack Obama has bravely stepped forward with explosive claims of a secret homosexual affair between Obama and his now deceased personal chef. According to her account, the chef was preparing to go public with intimate details of their relationship right before he was mysterious…"
A false claim has spread on social media in recent days about an allegation from a supposed Obama employee & Obama's now-deceased personal chef. The claim, a spinoff of a false 2023 claim (www.mediamatters.org/barack-obama...), has tens of thousands of "likes" & shares.
A few days ago, Barry Ramey, a J6 participant, said on a Proud Boys-affiliated channel he hosts that "we worked so hard to infiltrate the No Kings protest from coast to coast," "our coordinated plan to fuck with No Kings from coast to coast went pretty well," & "we're gonna be out there again."
-A “major win”
-Means “the democrats are toast"
-Is Trump "stepping to the plate" & striking "while the iron is hot"
Election deniers on podcasts, blogs, & social media are cheering Trump’s new mail-in voting executive order.
My latest:
On a QAnon-affiliated podcast a few days ago, "Plandemic" video star Judy Mikovits baselessly claimed that the Sandy Hook victims died from "a bad lot of vaccines," that Obama "killed those kids," & that the parents of the Sandy Hook victims were "paid off."
(To clarify, the host at the beginning of the clip is right-wing podcaster Amy Dangerfield. Putsch's response comes later in the clip.)
During an appearance on a right-wing podcast yesterday, Ohio GOP gubernatorial candidate Casey Putsch said Nick Fuentes "brings a lot of receipts," said "you can't argue that he isn't smart," & praised his "courage." Putsch also said Fuentes' groyper followers are "thinking for themselves."