In the midst of a confused Twitter speech about his election defeat Tuesday night, President Donald Trump launched a wild conspiracy theory about Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, which was so outrageous that the extreme website Gateway Pundit right recently deleted an article that made the same claim.
“I love the Great State of Georgia, but the people who run it, from the governor, @BrianKempGA, for the Secretary of State, are a complete disaster and have no idea, or worse. No one can be that stupid. Let us just find the crime and make the state republican … ”the president tweeted before turning his attention to Raffensperger. “It turns out that Brad R’s brother works for China,” he added, “and they definitely don’t want ‘Trump’. So disgusting! “
Among the many problems with these tweets, as CNN fact checker Daniel Dale pointed out, is the fact that Brad Raffensperger has no brother. Georgia reporter Stephen Fowler was one of the first to unmask the theory that Brad is related to Ron Raffensperger, a random man of the same surname who acts as CTO of a subsidiary of the Huawei conglomerate.