Carlson Sells Bogus Ukrainian Biolabs Conspiracy Theory
Last week, NBC's Ben Collins reported this about the would-be truck blockaders who were, at the time, beginning to congregate in Maryland:
... as its Covid mission has become less clear, the group’s channels have turned to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, where conspiracy-minded thinking has flourished.... QAnon and anti-vaccine contingents within the groups have seized on a false conspiracy theory that the war is a cover for a military operation backed by former President Donald Trump in Ukraine.
The conspiracy theory, which is baseless and has roots in QAnon mythology, alleges that Trump and Putin are secretly working together to stop bioweapons from being made by Dr. Anthony Fauci in Ukraine and that shelling in Ukraine has targeted the secret laboratories.
A couple of days later, I asked: