Hillary Clinton’s daughter Chelsea “admitted” in a tweet that the Pizzagate conspiracy is “real.”
In June 2018, multiple disreputable web sites pushed false reports about the alleged discovery of a “child trafficking bunker” near Tucson, Arizona. Many of those same sites also attempted to assert some putative connection between Hillary Clinton and the debunked bunker site, as well as with child sex trafficking in general.
This onslaught of misinformation prompted Clinton’s daughter, Chelsea, to issue a tweet likening the phenomenon to the absurd and thoroughly debunked “Pizzagate conspiracy theory of November 2016 (which held that Hillary Clinton and others were running a child trafficking ring out of a Washington, D.C., pizzeria) and pointing followers to the National Human Trafficking Hotline as a responsible source for dealing with child trafficking reports:
— Chelsea Clinton (@ChelseaClinton) June 6, 2018
The disreputable Neon Nettle web site then published an article bizarrely claiming that Chelsea Clinton’s tweet constituted an “admission” that Pizzagate was “real” and that the National Human Trafficking Hotline was actually “run” by her mother:
In a strange rant, Chelsea Clinton Tweeted “of course there’s a #Pizzagate 2.0. Of course, there is,” in a sarcastic reference to the recent child trafficking bust in Arizona.
All of this was false: Chelsea Clinton’s tweet was neither “strange” nor a “rant,” nor did she literally tweet that ‘Pizzagate is real’ (or anything else that could rationally be construed as an admission of such) — Ms. Clinton was clearly referencing and expressing dismay at her mother’s name being dragged into yet another preposterous child trafficking rumor. Moreover, Hillary Clinton does not “run” the human trafficking hotline her daughter tweeted about, as its parent organization’s chief communications officer, Caren Benjamin, told us:
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