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Speaker 2: Some cultures they've.
Speaker 3: Thrown children inside the bowels of its burning out.
Speaker 4: In the world of Alex Jones, almost every major tragedy
Speaker 4: was a government orchestrated operation.
Speaker 3: They're totally brainwashing this country. In the submission and the
Speaker 3: name of ending terrorism, when the federal government blew up
Speaker 3: the Oklahoma City building, there you see the funeral pyre
Speaker 3: burning with the effigy of a human or it could
Speaker 3: be real, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 5: I remember the time ten to Alex and you know
Speaker 5: that what you're saying about bohemian groves and true And
Speaker 5: Alex said, yeah, I'm not going to tell my listeners that.
Speaker 4: The Bohemian groove attack could have been chalked up as
Speaker 4: a fluke, but in the coming years this scene would
Speaker 4: play out again. I'm Patrick Carelchi and I'm Adriana Cortes,
Speaker 4: and this is.
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Speaker 6: To my girls, I love y'all more than anything in
Speaker 6: the world.
Speaker 1: It was the morning of December fourth, twenty sixteen, and
Speaker 1: Edgar Welch was alone in his car recording a message
Speaker 1: to his two daughters.
Speaker 6: I can't let you grow up in a world that's
Speaker 6: so corrupt by evil.
Speaker 1: Driving northeast from Salisbury, North Carolina, Edgar believed he was
Speaker 1: on his way to stop something horrible from happening.
Speaker 6: We got to at least stand up for you or
Speaker 6: other children just like you.
Speaker 1: Days earlier, Edgar, a devout Christian, ventured down a dark
Speaker 1: online rabbit hole one with videos, posts, and rumors about children,
Speaker 1: hidden rooms, and powerful people. One video stood out. He
Speaker 1: sent it to a friend with a simple message, watched
Speaker 1: Pizzagate The Bigger Picture on YouTube. It was a news
Speaker 1: report that suggested that the mainstream media was involved in
Speaker 1: a massive cover up about a Washington DC pizzeria that
Speaker 1: was connected to a global elite pedophile. It was an
Speaker 1: info Wars report, and the conspiracy theory influenced Edgar into acting.
Speaker 6: Like I've always told you, we have a duty to
Speaker 6: protect people who can't protect themselves, to do for people
Speaker 6: who can't do for themselves, and that's what I'm trying
Speaker 6: to do. I hope you understand that. One day, I
Speaker 6: love all y'all.
Speaker 1: Hours later, Edgar parked near a Washington DC restaurant, grabbed
Speaker 1: his rifle and a thirty eight caliber revolver, and entered
Speaker 1: Comet Ping Pong pizzeria, determined to save the children, and
Speaker 1: when he did, his life was never the same again.
Speaker 1: We're at part two of our series of episodes entitled
Speaker 1: Gish Gollop. We're looking for the answer to the question
Speaker 1: why are conspiracy theories spreading by telling the story of
Speaker 1: a pioneer in the space Alex Jones, so to pick.
Speaker 4: Up where we left off in our last episode. In
Speaker 4: two thousand and two, a troubled man with a superhero
Speaker 4: complex decided he was going to save the children that
Speaker 4: were being sacrificed at a campsite in northern California. After
Speaker 4: watching the Info Wars documentary Dark Secrets Inside the Bohemian Grove,
Speaker 4: Richard McCaslin believed the film's thesis that elites were potentially
Speaker 4: sacrificing kids to a huge owl statue as part of
Speaker 4: a Satanic rite of passage. To the deeply Christian man,
Speaker 4: this could not stand, so on January nineteenth, two thousand
Speaker 4: and two, dressed in a superhero costume with the words
Speaker 4: Phantom Patriot painted across his chest, Richard infiltrated the Bohemian
Speaker 4: Grove with the full arsenal, But with no kids to
Speaker 4: be saved or resistance forced to fight, he resorted to
Speaker 4: his backup plan, burn it all down. Richard set a
Speaker 4: building on fire, but it was quickly extinguished by sprinklers.
Speaker 4: When the local authorities arrived, he surrendered and was arrested.
Speaker 4: The Bohemian Grove tale spun by Alex Jones, turned out
Speaker 4: to be a hoax, the phantom patriot would be sentenced
Speaker 4: to almost twelve years in prison. Now, just one crazed
Speaker 4: Alex Jones fan could be chalked up to being a fluke.
Speaker 4: But if another god fearing, conspiracy minded fan were to
Speaker 4: be influenced into saving the children from elite pedophiles, well,
Speaker 4: then some might begin questioning the business model of Alex Jones.
Speaker 4: That moment would arrive after a tranch of emails were
Speaker 4: leaked to the public. On October seventh, twenty sixteen, Wiki Leaks,
Speaker 4: the non profit organization that publishes leaked documents, released thousands
Speaker 4: of emails from John Podesta, the chairman of Hillary Clinton's
Speaker 4: presidential campaign, and it wasn't the first leak of his emails.
Speaker 4: In July twenty sixteen, on the eve of the Democratic
Speaker 4: National Convention, WikiLeaks released the initial batch of Podesta emails.
Speaker 7: The Democratic National Committee's computers were hacked months ago and
Speaker 7: looted tens of thousands of emails. The Clinton campaign is
Speaker 7: blaming the theft on Russia.
Speaker 4: The emails revealed collusion between the Clinton campaign and the
Speaker 4: Democratic National Committee to shut out Bernie Sanders. This is
Speaker 4: a crisis situation for them, They do expect that there
Speaker 4: will be more leaks and that it could go on
Speaker 4: for several more weeks, if not much. And they were right,
Speaker 4: and when more of Podesta's emails leaked in early October
Speaker 4: twenty sixteen, many believed that they were released to counter
Speaker 4: the bombshell Access Hollywood tape of then presidential candidate Donald
Speaker 4: Trump speaking Ludeley.
Speaker 8: It remains to be seen whether Donald Trump's campaign will
Speaker 8: be able to recover from the video that is sending
Speaker 8: shock waves through the nation's capital. Previously unaired footage from
Speaker 8: two thousand and five was recently obtained by The Washington Post.
Speaker 8: It shows the GOP nominee bragging about infidelity and being
Speaker 8: able to grope women.
Speaker 7: Wellk you some takebacks in cases that kissinger. Yet I'm
Speaker 7: automatically Jack could the beautiable. I just started kissing them.
Speaker 9: It's like a magnet.
Speaker 3: And when you were started, they let you do it.
Speaker 2: You can do anything, but you grab them by the.
Speaker 10: I can do any of them.
Speaker 4: So, with the legacy media executing what appeared to be
Speaker 4: a hit job on Trump, his supporters were especially motivated
Speaker 4: to find something anything salacious about Hillary Clinton in the
Speaker 4: Podesta leaked emails, an army of Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, and
Speaker 4: four Chan users became Internet sleuths, scouring the emails looking
Speaker 4: for any evidence of Hillary wrongdoing. But after weeks of combing,
Speaker 4: the only major revelation was that Hillary spoke differently to
Speaker 4: Wall Street bigwigs behind closed doors. The salacious angle wasn't materializing.
Speaker 4: Then a massive story sparked an idea.
Speaker 11: With just over a week before election day, Hillary Clinton's
Speaker 11: campaign is fighting a political firestorm that appeared to be
Speaker 11: put out in July.
Speaker 12: At the time, the Justice Department closed its criminal investigation
Speaker 12: into her use of a private email server while she
Speaker 12: was Secretary of State. Now, the FBI is reopening the
Speaker 12: case after new emails were discovered in an unrelated manner.
Speaker 13: The unearthed emails were from the FBI's investigation into disgraced
Speaker 13: Congressman Anthony Weena. Weena stands accused of sending sexually explicit
Speaker 13: messages to a fifteen year old and is married to
Speaker 13: longtime Clinton aide Huma Aberdeen. Sources tell CBS News the
Speaker 13: new trove of potentially thousands of emails were found on
Speaker 13: a confiscated laptop shared by Weena and Aberdeen. When asked
Speaker 13: about that possibility, Clinton called them rumors.
Speaker 12: We don't know what to believe, and I'm sure there
Speaker 12: will be even more rumors.
Speaker 4: And Clinton was right. More rumors did begin to circulate.
Speaker 4: Within forty eight hours of the news, an anonymous Twitter
Speaker 4: user posted that the emails on Anthony Wiener's laptop revealed
Speaker 4: that Hillary Clinton was involved in a pedophile ring. The
Speaker 4: post read quote.
Speaker 6: My source said, it's much more vile and serious than
Speaker 6: classified material on Wiener's device.
Speaker 13: We're talking an international child enslavement and sex.
Speaker 4: Ring conspiracy theory. Sites ran with the rumor, including Alex Jones.
Speaker 3: When I think about all the children Hillary Clinton has
Speaker 3: personally murdered and chopped up and raped, I have zero
Speaker 3: fear standing up against her. Now you heard me right,
Speaker 3: Hillary Clinton has personally murdered children.
Speaker 4: Alex Jones brought a purported forensic investigator on info Wars,
Speaker 4: a guy named Doug Hagman. Hagman claimed that his sources
Speaker 4: were saying that they were uncovering some incredibly dark material
Speaker 4: on Wiener's laptop.
Speaker 11: My sources at the periphery of this investigation and even
Speaker 11: within NYPD said, look, this is not just about sex thing.
Speaker 11: This is not just about espionage. This is about child pornography.
Speaker 11: This is all about sex trafficking, or a lot of
Speaker 11: it's about sex trafficking.
Speaker 4: And then the Info Wars guest connected the Wiener investigation
Speaker 4: back to the Podesta emails published by WikiLeaks and what
Speaker 4: he suggested would eventually grow into a massive conspiracy theory.
Speaker 11: There is a subtext or coding to some of the
Speaker 11: emails that Podesta and others have including Hillary. For example,
Speaker 11: pizza party. I'll just leave this out there, pizza party.
Speaker 11: That's not exactly what it means. You know, don't bring
Speaker 11: a you know, don't bring your favorite video over for
Speaker 11: pizza knight. A pizza party is something that has sexual connotations.
Speaker 11: This is going to involve not just the Clinton campaign,
Speaker 11: but it's also going to involve high levels, high congressional staffers,
Speaker 11: high congression or high congressional honors. People they knew about this,
Speaker 11: they were part of this. Think of this as like
Speaker 11: an electronic Bohemian grove, an electronic persistent bohemian grove. I
Speaker 11: guess in the nutshet, we're seeing money laundering, child exploitations,
Speaker 11: sex crimes with miners.
Speaker 10: We're gonna see video of a toddler getting chopped up.
Speaker 11: We're talking Jeffrey Dahmer kind of activity.
Speaker 4: The segment piled one salacious claim on top of another.
Speaker 4: It was around this time that many so called Internet
Speaker 4: salutes began to home in on what the Info War
Speaker 4: segment highlighted. They focused on Podesta's emails related to food.
Speaker 4: Several emails included discussions about pizza. Some of the exchanges
Speaker 4: sounded awkward and ambiguous. In one email, someone asked John
Speaker 4: Podesta quote, the realtor found a handkerchief.
Speaker 10: I think it has a map that seems pizza related.
Speaker 10: Is it yours?
Speaker 12: They can send it if you want.
Speaker 4: Podesta responded, it's mine, but not worth worrying about. In
Speaker 4: another exchange, then Bill Clinton advisor Doug Band sent an
Speaker 4: attachment with the file name pizza dot jpeg. The image
Speaker 4: showed American journalist Unilee and Laura Ling eating pizza with
Speaker 4: a young girl, reportedly Lee's daughter after being released by
Speaker 4: North Korea. The two journalists had been held captive for
Speaker 4: almost five months and sentenced to twelve years hard labor
Speaker 4: by North Korean courts, that is until Bill Clinton successfully
Speaker 4: secured their release. In the body of the email, Clinton
Speaker 4: advisor Doug Band said, as.
Speaker 6: John said, it doesn't get any better than this.
Speaker 4: The message was sent to Hillary Clinton, aide whom Aberdeen, Podesta,
Speaker 4: and others. Podesta responded, nice. Now, any rational person could
Speaker 4: see that the exchange was about how great it was
Speaker 4: that two captive journalists were now free and enjoying a
Speaker 4: meal with their child. That many of these online saluts
Speaker 4: suggested something far darker was happening. The Internet detectives used
Speaker 4: these strained connections to pizza to conclude that perhaps food
Speaker 4: was being used as code words. Others referenced to an FBI
Speaker 4: document published by WikiLeaks subtitled Symbols and Logos used by
Speaker 4: Pedophiles to Identify Sexual Preferences. In it, the document states quote,
Speaker 4: pedophiles are using various types of identification logos or symbols
Speaker 4: to recognize one another and distinguish their sexual preferences. The
Speaker 4: Internet detectives started to believe that if pedophiles are using
Speaker 4: symbols to communicate to one another, then perhaps Hillary Clinton's
Speaker 4: campaign manager and by extension, Hillary were using pedophile codes
Speaker 4: when referencing pizza. As this idea spread online, theory turned
Speaker 4: to fact, and the sleuths continued looking for more hidden
Speaker 4: messages in the emails, and in a matter of days,
Speaker 4: the conspiracy theory snowballed from an online phenomenon to harassment
Speaker 4: in the real world.
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Speaker 1: Pilled America. So internet sloths began to lean into this
Speaker 1: theory that Podesta and his cohorts were using pedophile coded
Speaker 1: language when mentioning pizza. As this idea spread online, theory
Speaker 1: turned to fact, and the sloths continued looking for more
Speaker 1: hidden messages in the emails and even those connected to them.
Speaker 1: Once sleuth connected the phrase cheese pizza directly to pedophiles,
Speaker 1: who are known to use the initial CP on chatboards
Speaker 1: to denote child pornography, cheese pizza and child pornography share
Speaker 1: the same initials, as urged by the Info Wars guest
Speaker 1: pizza became a focus within the Podesta emails. Sloths noted
Speaker 1: that John Podesta corresponded with the owner of a Washington,
Speaker 1: DC pizza rhea called Comet Ping Pong, a gay man
Speaker 1: named James Alafhontas, who was connected to Democratic fundraisers and
Speaker 1: once dated David Brock. Brock was the notorious Democrat political
Speaker 1: operative and founder of Media Matters, the nonprofit purportedly dedicated
Speaker 1: to taking down right wing media that spread misinformation. Another
Speaker 1: sleuth noted that one of the logos on the FBI
Speaker 1: document was similar to a ping pong paddle icon used
Speaker 1: on the Comet Ping Pong menu. Alex Jones leaned into
Speaker 1: this hidden code theory.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you've been through it all, but
Speaker 3: do you see this stuff with They're like, well, I
Speaker 3: want more hot dogs than Hamburger, and I don't know
Speaker 3: if I want that many nuts in the sauce, and
Speaker 3: nuts means black people. And they're like, well, I know, Podesta,
Speaker 3: you're a connoisseur of the right kind of you know,
Speaker 3: you know, pasta sauce.
Speaker 10: But do you really want this many nuts?
Speaker 3: Now I'm having to learn this is standard pedophile nomenclacier.
Speaker 4: What the hell?
Speaker 14: And they are talking about child pornography, they're talking about
Speaker 14: human trafficking.
Speaker 3: They got kids disappearing from Haiti. The Clintons are vacationing
Speaker 3: in Haiti, They're running child kidnapping rings. Folks, Hillary's involved,
Speaker 3: of course she is. Look at that big, dominant, crazy
Speaker 3: joker face. Man, That woman's a frickin' hell hound.
Speaker 2: Right up to the election, Anthony Wiener's laptop will reveal
Speaker 2: evidence of an international child sex trafficking ring tied to
Speaker 2: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 1: On the eve of election Day twenty sixteen, the hashtag
Speaker 1: pizzagate was born. The slouths began tagging their findings with
Speaker 1: the new pizzagate hashtag. The theory began to snowball catching
Speaker 1: not only comet ping Pong, but also a neighboring pizzeria,
Speaker 1: and even bands that performed at the restaurant were implicated.
Speaker 1: Anything that looked ambiguous that was connected to comet ping
Speaker 1: Pong or the word pizza got swept into the theory.
Speaker 1: When someone emailed John Podesta seemingly joking about being stuck
Speaker 1: in a torture chamber, it became a sign that children
Speaker 1: were being abused. Artwork on the walls of comet ping
Speaker 1: Pong were being interpreted as satanic. Anything that conspiracy sloths
Speaker 1: considered weird got expanded into signs of an elite child
Speaker 1: trafficking ring. Orchestrated by Hillary Clinton and John Podesta, all
Speaker 1: hidden in plain sight. Kill rooms, underground tunnels, satanic rituals,
Speaker 1: and even cannibalism were thought to be housed at Comet
Speaker 1: Ping Pong. The owner of the pizzeria reportedly began receiving
Speaker 1: death threats, but after weeks of speculation, no one had
Speaker 1: simply gone to the restaurant to check it out. Activist
Speaker 1: Jack Posobic appears to have been the first. On November sixteenth,
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, Jack made what he said was the short
Speaker 1: drive to Comic Ping Pong and live streamed his infiltration.
Speaker 10: So let's go take a look. Shall we Comet Pizza?
Speaker 4: Here we go?
Speaker 1: He and a friend asked for a table.
Speaker 6: Ah, Hi, don't you please.
Speaker 1: The two were seated in the back of the restaurant,
Speaker 1: but not long after ordering, they were approached by the manager.
Speaker 6: Ome on, guys, I'm gonna come back. I think we're
Speaker 6: burning to a part time.
Speaker 1: He discovered Jack was live streaming and had a problem
Speaker 1: with the attention the activist was bringing to the pizzeria.
Speaker 15: I understand that I understand that to you this is
Speaker 15: maybe like a game.
Speaker 9: But considering that I, myself and my staff received death threats.
Speaker 16: It's it's not a game, it's not anything.
Speaker 11: I can't control what somebody posts on the.
Speaker 1: Internet with them, Jack was asked to leave.
Speaker 11: You're well, you're throwing me out.
Speaker 17: I am because because you're you are aiding, you're aiding
Speaker 17: a dangerous sivility.
Speaker 1: With the help of law enforcement, Jack and his friend
Speaker 1: were escorted out.
Speaker 6: Wow, so thrown out of Comet Pizza.
Speaker 16: You guys will notice that I've not actually tweeted about
Speaker 16: Comet Pizza before that, I've not actually done anything about
Speaker 16: Comic Pizza. I specifically said, what was going on? Why
Speaker 16: are we being thrown out? And he said, well, you're
Speaker 16: contributing to an alt right conspiracy theory.
Speaker 1: But after being booted from the pizzeria, Jack started to
Speaker 1: express new suspicions.
Speaker 16: They've got eyes on me, They've got eyes on anybody
Speaker 16: that's coming into Comment Pizza. So I am putting out
Speaker 16: the call right now, guys, James O'Keefe, we need you
Speaker 16: in here. I'm gonna need your help on this one man.
Speaker 16: This is an operation that suddenly just got a little
Speaker 16: bit bigger than just myself.
Speaker 18: We need people in here at a higher level.
Speaker 16: We need to recruit sub sources to go in here
Speaker 16: with hidden cameras because we saw a secret back room.
Speaker 16: People were going in and out of there.
Speaker 6: There's music, there were kids.
Speaker 16: There were little kids going in and out of this
Speaker 16: back and.
Speaker 10: This is this is a bar.
Speaker 6: This is nine o'clock at night on how.
Speaker 11: Many days since?
Speaker 16: When are kids allowed to be in a bar?
Speaker 1: It's weird in the first place, it's weird.
Speaker 16: So there's there's kids. You can see him on my
Speaker 16: earlier scope that that are in this bar. And I
Speaker 16: don't know in my impressions, you know, I don't think
Speaker 16: that kids were allowed to go in bars at all.
Speaker 16: I don't understand what it is that they have to
Speaker 16: hide there. But we saw a secret room in the
Speaker 16: very far back of this place, and we saw little
Speaker 16: kids going in and out, three.
Speaker 6: Kids at least.
Speaker 18: And he disappeared and they disappeared.
Speaker 16: The threat level here is much higher, much higher than
Speaker 16: I thought it would be. There are people here that
Speaker 16: have a lot of interests and a lot of money,
Speaker 16: So they have a big secret that they are trying
Speaker 16: to hide because it could potentially blow the lid on
Speaker 16: Hillary Clinton, on John Podesta.
Speaker 1: Others followed in Jack's footsteps. Pizzagate investigators jumped from the
Speaker 1: comment sections and internet forums into the real world, traveling
Speaker 1: to comment Ping Pong to investigate recording all along the way.
Speaker 10: Came out away from Philadelphia.
Speaker 6: I came away from Philadelphia to be here.
Speaker 1: It was one thing to deal with this conspiracy theory
Speaker 1: on social media or through phone calls, but it was
Speaker 1: an entirely new level dealing with them in real life.
Speaker 1: The uproar got so loud that the owner of Comet
Speaker 1: Ping Pong, James Alafantas, approached protesters, hoping to convince them
Speaker 1: that nothing torrid was occurring.
Speaker 15: We have undreds of here all the time, and I
Speaker 15: love children, I love you, and we love our community.
Speaker 1: Alafantis asked them to come inside to check out for themselves,
Speaker 1: but oddly they turned him down.
Speaker 4: I don't want to come in.
Speaker 15: I do have hundreds of people come here every day.
Speaker 15: I want to know what's up with that rude that
Speaker 15: is apparently from your place and people and people say.
Speaker 1: They went from just asking questions to not really wanting answers. Finally,
Speaker 1: Alafantis convinced one to take a tour inside.
Speaker 17: I can show your routes.
Speaker 15: This is where we turn the lives on.
Speaker 1: Alafontis. Took him through the entire restaurant, the front, the kitchen,
Speaker 1: the ping pong area, the birthday party.
Speaker 9: Room, kids party room, birthday parties come on in.
Speaker 1: After touring the entire space, it was nothing, no kill room,
Speaker 1: no tunnels, no torture chamber. There wasn't even a basement.
Speaker 1: It was just a pizza joint. The Pizza Gate protester
Speaker 1: filmed at all then left. The video is posted on YouTube,
Speaker 1: but it did nothing to de escalate the attacks.
Speaker 5: So the story starts with a guy who goes by
Speaker 5: the name of James Alifants, who is the owner of
Speaker 5: a pizza place very close to the White House, which
Speaker 5: is called Comet Ping Pong. They market towards kids. You
Speaker 5: could see photos of him here, This disgusting, rotten human
Speaker 5: being that he is. Now, this is an operation that
Speaker 5: they're running, which is child sex trafficking. Is what's going
Speaker 5: on here to very elite rich people around Washington, DC.
Speaker 5: And it's believed that these rituals take place inside of
Speaker 5: this restaurant and they're using this for trafficking, and that
Speaker 5: Clintons are all linked to it. We know these people
Speaker 5: in high positions of power. Are Satanists and into pedophile
Speaker 5: are pursues me pedophilia and child abuse. These people are cannibals.
Speaker 5: These people eat these victims when they kill them.
Speaker 1: It was a fire hose of accusations with no concrete
Speaker 1: evidence for any of these claims. There were no alleged
Speaker 1: victims connected to Comet Ping Pong. No one offered a
Speaker 1: police report of a missing child last scene at the pizzeria.
Speaker 1: There were no pictures of dungeons or tunnels or abused kids,
Speaker 1: but that didn't matter. The Pizzagate sleuths posted unhinged video
Speaker 1: after unhinged video claiming as a fact that Comet Ping
Speaker 1: Pong was trafficking children and racking up hundreds of thousands
Speaker 1: of views along the way.
Speaker 5: When they're not killing children for sport, they're molesting teenagers,
Speaker 5: raping women, practicing lies in the open.
Speaker 1: Pizzagate went so viral the story reached the mainstream media.
Speaker 19: Northwest DC neighborhood pizza joint is fighting back tonight after
Speaker 19: it suspects a massive, coordinated online attack that is suggesting
Speaker 19: the restaurant is involved in the worst kind of conspiracy.
Speaker 20: Pizza shop owner suspects thousands of online bullies have shut
Speaker 20: out to destroy him, maybe simply because he and a
Speaker 20: friend supported the Clinton campaign.
Speaker 5: Comic Ping Pong's owner says the Pizzagate conspirators have also
Speaker 5: harassed and abused his staff.
Speaker 21: The manager got so many threats and vulgar messages his
Speaker 21: wife actually asked him to quit his job.
Speaker 1: Even the mainstream media was covering the growing conspiracy theory,
Speaker 1: but surprisingly, Info Wars went noticeably quiet on the topic
Speaker 1: of Pizzagate. Yes, earlier in the conspiracy Theories formation, an
Speaker 1: Info Wars guest connected the word pizza to pedophiles, and Yes,
Speaker 1: Alex Jones broadcasted claims that Hillary Clinton was a satanic
Speaker 1: criminal who personally murdered, raped, and chopped up kids. But
Speaker 1: once Pizzagate was attached to an actual physical location comet
Speaker 1: Ping Pong, Alex went quiet on the subject for weeks.
Speaker 1: The Info Wars audience started to recognize this and began
Speaker 1: accusing Alex Jones and the network of being in on
Speaker 1: the cover up. As pressure from its audience mounted, Info
Speaker 1: Wars began covering Pizzagate in a big way. They had
Speaker 1: Jack Posobic on It's like nine.
Speaker 16: O'clock at night in a bar in DC and there's
Speaker 16: little kids like just randomly sort of walking around, going
Speaker 16: back and forth from this curtain.
Speaker 1: They hosted panels on the topic of Pizzagate cool and
Speaker 1: initially Alex Jones and his on air crew sounded a
Speaker 1: bit defensive.
Speaker 3: We're one of the first groups to cover it. I
Speaker 3: just said, ah, could this be cub for drug dealing?
Speaker 3: Could this be cub for something else? So we covered it,
Speaker 3: and then every few days we've had reporters cover it
Speaker 3: new reports. I've talked about it and I saw this.
Speaker 3: You know, al Jones isn't covering this. We were on
Speaker 3: it from the beginning. Get this through your damn head.
Speaker 3: I'm not covering any of this up. I never covered
Speaker 3: anything up.
Speaker 22: Now, a lot of people have been begging us to
Speaker 22: draw more attention to this, and for a lot of people,
Speaker 22: Pizzagate is what has started their path down the rabbit hole.
Speaker 10: But here's the problem. We're gonna come on here, we're
Speaker 10: gonna talk.
Speaker 22: About everything, We're gonna cover all of it, and it
Speaker 22: still won't satisfy people.
Speaker 1: It quickly became clear why Alex Jones went quiet on
Speaker 1: Pizzagate once it went from a theory to an actual
Speaker 1: physical location. Comet Ping Pong.
Speaker 10: Look, I've been careful about all this. This is lawsuit city.
Speaker 3: I don't know what the hell's going on with these people.
Speaker 3: I mean, I know real basl mat worship when I
Speaker 3: see it. I'm not ready to excuse of these people
Speaker 3: of this. It's up to you to research it for yourself.
Speaker 3: But you've got to go to mfol wars dot com
Speaker 3: and actually see the photos and videos inside these places.
Speaker 3: You've got to see their menus. You've got to see
Speaker 3: it all, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1: But info Wars eventually through caution to the wind and
Speaker 1: began directly questioning the owner of Comet Ping Pong.
Speaker 2: The evidence begins to reveal that Best of Pizza and
Speaker 2: Comet Pingo Pizza maybe competing for the lucrative Washington, d c.
Speaker 2: Pedophile market. Right out in the open. Comet Ping Pong
Speaker 2: owner James Aliphantis needs to explain himself. So many questions
Speaker 2: remain unanswered. According to the National Center for Missing and
Speaker 2: Exploited Children and the FBI, four hundred and sixty thousand,
Speaker 2: six hundred and ninety nine children went missing in twenty
Speaker 2: fifteen that we know of mister Aliphantis. This isn't a
Speaker 2: witch hunt, and it isn't an attack from fake news
Speaker 2: that your boyfriend David Brock, founder of Media Matters, would
Speaker 2: have us all ignore. Either you are the unlucky victim
Speaker 2: of a fake news onslaught due to your own poorly
Speaker 2: initiated publicity, or a decade's old pedophile ring operating in
Speaker 2: the power hoarding shadows of Washington, d C. Is about
Speaker 2: to be opened from your front door. Now.
Speaker 1: Info Wars covering Pizzagate was no small thing. Alex Jones
Speaker 1: was considered a near profit within the conspiracy world, and
Speaker 1: that's largely because in two thousand and one, Alex appeared
Speaker 1: to make an enormous prediction. As mentioned earlier in this series,
Speaker 1: in July two thousand and one, Alex Jones claimed America
Speaker 1: was about to commit a false flag terrorist attack in
Speaker 1: the United States and blame it on an Islamic terrorist.
Speaker 21: If any terrorism comes, it's from this government. And if
Speaker 21: there was an outside threat like a bin Laden, he's
Speaker 21: the boogeyman. They need all the White House and tell
Speaker 21: them we know the government's planning terrorism.
Speaker 10: If you do it, we're gonna blame you.
Speaker 21: Because we know who's up to it, or if you
Speaker 21: let some terrorist group drough it like the World Trade Center,
Speaker 21: we know who to blame.
Speaker 1: Then came September eleventh, two thousand and one, We just
Speaker 1: got a report.
Speaker 11: And that there's been some sort of explosion at the
Speaker 11: World Trade Center in New York City.
Speaker 1: Amongst the malcontents, Alex Jones became somewhat of a prophet,
Speaker 1: the guy that could read the tea leaves and find
Speaker 1: the truth in all the lies. So when info Wars
Speaker 1: began covering Pizzagate, the conspiracy theory became real. On December one,
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, Info Wars broadcast a report entitled Pizzagate the
Speaker 1: Bigger Picture, and it wove together a bunch of separate
Speaker 1: pedophile convictions into a larger story of a global child
Speaker 1: sex trafficking ring.
Speaker 2: An international pedophile ring has been fully operational for decades.
Speaker 2: Plummeting down the rabbit hole, you will eventually discover the
Speaker 2: Franklin cover up, the Jimmy Seville scandal, the Hampstead cover up,
Speaker 2: the Elm Guesthouse scandal, Jeffrey Epstein's Lolita Island, and many
Speaker 2: others that were eventually buried by a colluding media.
Speaker 1: The report claimed the mainstream media was attempting to bury
Speaker 1: the story while nearly four hundred kids were missing in
Speaker 1: the Comet Pingpong area.
Speaker 2: As the Pizzagate scandal unfolds, regardless of the mainstream media
Speaker 2: downplaying of it.
Speaker 14: Fake news, by the way, is not an abstract problem.
Speaker 14: The owner of a DC pizza restaurant called Comet Ping
Speaker 14: Pong where I've taken my kids began receiving death threats
Speaker 14: after Facebook, Twitter, and red and carried viciously the phony
Speaker 14: rumors that the pizza joint was the base for a
Speaker 14: child abuse ring using underground tunnels led by Hillary Clinton
Speaker 14: and her campaign chief John Podesta.
Speaker 10: It is all a lie.
Speaker 20: Comt Big Pong owner James Aliphantis says the restaurant does
Speaker 20: not even have a basement.
Speaker 6: Just disgusting.
Speaker 2: Three hundred and ninety eight children remain missing in the
Speaker 2: Greater Washington, DC area. WikiLeaks revealed that Tony Podesta had
Speaker 2: mentioned he was still in the torture room. Let's hope
Speaker 2: the walls are finally closing in on this cancer that
Speaker 2: is fed on thousands upon thousands of children worldwide for decades.
Speaker 1: Below their info Wars report, they embedded many of their
Speaker 1: Pizzagate videos in one convenient location for anyone that wanted
Speaker 1: to do a deep dive on their coverage of Pizzagate,
Speaker 1: it was hours of content. The report was just a
Speaker 1: fire hose of accusations with no corroboration and blurred the
Speaker 1: line between fact and inference. Pizzagate the bigger picture looked
Speaker 1: like an investigation, but it skipped the steps that make
Speaker 1: an investigation real. The problem is that when unverified claims
Speaker 1: are presented as established fact, they can create a false
Speaker 1: sense of urgency and moral duty. That's just what the
Speaker 1: story did. Just as info Wars posted this Pizzagate report,
Speaker 1: the twenty eight year old man from North Carolina was
Speaker 1: at home on his phone scrolling through YouTube, and he
Speaker 1: saw a video that triggered him into an action that
Speaker 1: would change his life forever.
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Speaker 4: to Red Pilled America. So just as info Wars posted
Speaker 4: their report Pizzagate The Bigger Picture, a twenty eight year
Speaker 4: old man from North Carolina was at home on his
Speaker 4: phone scrolling through YouTube. His name was Edgar Madison Welch
Speaker 4: Sure after plunging down the Pizzagate rabbit hole, Edgar touched
Speaker 4: base with his girlfriend, sending her a text.
Speaker 6: I've been researching Pizzagate and it's making me sick.
Speaker 4: Over the next few hours, he kept binging, watching more
Speaker 4: and more videos on the subject. At some point he
Speaker 4: landed on a video one posted to info wars.
Speaker 2: An international pedophile ring has been fully operational for decades.
Speaker 4: Edgar sent it to a friend with the text.
Speaker 6: Watch Pizzagate the Bigger Picture on YouTube.
Speaker 4: A few minutes later, a friend texted Edgar.
Speaker 12: Tell me, we're going to save the Indians from the pipeline.
Speaker 6: Edgar responded, way more important, much higher stakes Pizzagate.
Speaker 4: By the next day, Pizzagate wasn't just something he'd been
Speaker 4: watching online. It became something he wanted to destroy in
Speaker 4: the real world. Edgar reached out to his friend again,
Speaker 4: explaining his mission.
Speaker 6: Raiding a pedo ring, standing up against a corrupt system,
Speaker 6: defending the next generation.
Speaker 4: He tried to draw others in, but he got no takers,
Speaker 4: so he decided to go it alone. Two days later,
Speaker 4: on December fourth, twenty sixteen, at around nine am, Edgar
Speaker 4: loaded his car and left North Carolina, driving northeast towards Washington,
Speaker 4: d C. On the way, he recorded a message for
Speaker 4: his daughters.
Speaker 6: To my girls, I love y'all more than anything in
Speaker 6: the world.
Speaker 4: Just before three pm, Edgar pulled up to a pizzeria
Speaker 4: in the nation's capital, Comet, Ping Pong. Families were inside,
Speaker 4: kids and employees going about their day. Edgar stepped out
Speaker 4: of his car, carrying a rifle and a thirty eight
Speaker 4: caliber revolver. He walked towards the pizzeria, opened the door,
Speaker 4: and stepped in. People immediately saw the rifle and they scattered.
Speaker 4: Chairs toppled over. People screamed. A bottleneck formed at the exit.
Speaker 4: Some made it out, others froze in place. Edgar moved
Speaker 4: towards the back of the restaurant, searching for hidden rooms, tunnels,
Speaker 4: and kidnapped children. He found a locked door. This must
Speaker 4: be the torture chamber, he thought. He tried to force
Speaker 4: his way in, but when it wouldn't budge, he pointed
Speaker 4: his firearm at the lock and fired. He swung the
Speaker 4: door open, but inside there was nothing. No staircase to
Speaker 4: the basement, no torture chamber, no enslaved children, and no
Speaker 4: evidence of wrongdoing. It was simply a closet. Realizing there
Speaker 4: were no children to save, Edgar walked out of the
Speaker 4: front door of the pizzeria. Then, as law enforcement approached,
Speaker 4: he put his hands in the air and surrendered. When
Speaker 4: the police interrogated him, Edgar said he had been reading
Speaker 4: reports online about a child sex trafficking ring operating out
Speaker 4: a common at Ping Pong. He said he decided to
Speaker 4: investigate them himself, but in the end, the only conspiracy
Speaker 4: he found at the pizzeria was the one he carried
Speaker 4: with him inside his head. Just like Richard McCaslin had
Speaker 4: been duped over the Bohemian Grove conspiracy theory, Edgar Welch
Speaker 4: had been duped by Pizzagate.
Speaker 18: Twenty eight year old Edgar Welch was arrested in Washington
Speaker 18: Sunday afternoon outside Comet Ping Pong, a popular family pizza parlor.
Speaker 18: DC police say Welch fired at least one round into
Speaker 18: the restaurant floor with an AR fifteen rifle. No one
Speaker 18: was injured. Police say Welch drove all the way from
Speaker 18: North Carolina to self investigate Pizzagate, a fictitious online conspiracy theory.
Speaker 18: Court documents say Welch read online that the Comet restaurant
Speaker 18: was harboring child sex slaves and he was armed to
Speaker 18: help rescue them. He surrendered peacefully when he found no
Speaker 18: evidence that underage children were being harbored in the restaurant.
Speaker 17: What happened today demonstrates that promoting false and rec conspiracy
Speaker 17: theories do come with consequences.
Speaker 4: The day after the shooting, Alex Jones went on air
Speaker 4: and attempted to rewrite history.
Speaker 3: People start of saying, Alex, why aren't you covering this
Speaker 3: twenty four to seven? Why aren't you saying that everybody
Speaker 3: listed and this must.
Speaker 10: Be a pedophile.
Speaker 3: I've been staying away from it because it's easy for
Speaker 3: people that are innocent to get caught up in this.
Speaker 3: I think there's something going on there, clearly. But the
Speaker 3: issue is you can't then just have people go through
Speaker 3: these things randomly and say, oh, this pizza place must
Speaker 3: be the center of it all, just because in some
Speaker 3: pedophilia codewords they used pizza.
Speaker 10: That's a super common word.
Speaker 4: Alex Jones, who initially said he'd been covering it from
Speaker 4: the beginning, now claimed Pizzagate was a distraction. Three months later,
Speaker 4: after legal pressure from comment Ping Pung owner James Eliphontis,
Speaker 4: Alex had to admit he was wrong.
Speaker 3: In our commentary about what had become known as Pizzagate.
Speaker 3: I made comments about mister Alifhanis that in hindsight I
Speaker 3: regret and for which I apologize to him.
Speaker 4: Some of the earliest coverage of what would become Pizzagate
Speaker 4: came from info Wars. The theory that pizza was a
Speaker 4: sexual code word was postulated on the Alex Jones Show.
Speaker 4: So when a deranged Info War's viewer pulled the trigger
Speaker 4: of his rifle in the pizzeria, it wasn't just the
Speaker 4: patrons that dodged a bullet. Alex Jones did as well.
Speaker 4: How did they do it? How did info Wars influence
Speaker 4: another troubled soul into taking violent action? Well, for years,
Speaker 4: the outlet had been carefully crafting an origin story for
Speaker 4: its founder, one that claimed he was the only truth
Speaker 4: teller that predicted one of the most tragic events in
Speaker 4: American history. And they crafted this persona by using the
Speaker 4: technique known as gish gallup.
Speaker 1: Coming up on Red Pilled America.
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Speaker 18: and in fact, that's why they don't like him.
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