There’s a new MAGA conspiracy theory afoot and it’s a doozy.:
There’s been no shortage of reasons why President Donald Trump captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro over the weekend. But election deniers think the operation will finally expose a 2020 election plot involving rigged voting machines.
Dumb as it may be, the conspiracy theory stretches way back to the days after the 2020 election, when prominent Trump figures like Rudy Giuliani and lawyer Sidney Powell falsely claimed that voting machine vendors Dominion and Smartmatic were secretly Venezuelan companies.
Since Maduro’s capture, prominent right-wing figures like Alex Jones and Benny Johnson, as well as the Trump administration official Ed Martin, have been excitedly predicting that Maduro, desperate to please Trump, will confirm the conspiracy. Trump himself has posted videos on social media promoting false claims about Dominion voting machines since Maduro’s capture.
It actually goes deeper than this. They think that Trump may have already cleverly cut the deal with Maduro in advance which explains why there was little resistance to his abduction. No word on why Maduro would have agreed although there has been some speculation that money was exchanged. This is all seen as yet more evidence of Trump’s brilliance.
You will no doubt recall that Fox News was forced to pay almost a billion dollars to Dominion for spreading this disinformation. This one should be good.