{"id":94936,"date":"2018-02-21T15:36:51","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T19:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=94936"},"modified":"2018-02-21T16:36:20","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T20:36:20","slug":"another-huge-breakthrough-msm-publishes-accounts-of-donald-trump-jr-and-fl-legislator-labeling-high-school-shooting-as-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=94936","title":{"rendered":"ANOTHER HUGE BREAKTHROUGH<\/b>: MSM publishes accounts of Donald Trump Jr. and FL legislator labeling high school shooting as conspiracy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The far right thinks there’s a massive FBI-linked conspiracy around survivors of the Florida school shooting<\/h1>\n

ALLAN SMITH
\nBusinesss Insider<\/p>\n

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Emma Gonzalez and David Hogg. Screenshot\/CNN<\/p><\/div>\n

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  • The far right is claiming that two students who have been featured prominently since the Florida school shooting are actors, tied to the FBI, or both.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  • The conspiracy has been promoted by the office of a Florida state lawmaker and President Donald Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  • Critics on both sides of the political aisle have blasted the rising trend, with Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida calling it the work of “a disgusting group of idiots.”<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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    There is a\u00a0widening conspiracy<\/a>\u00a0theory gaining traction on the far right that student survivors of a Florida school shooting who have made a series of TV appearances since last week’s massacre are actors, part of an FBI plot, or both.<\/p>\n

    The conspiracies have centered on David Hogg, who has been featured on CNN and CBS following the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that left 17 people dead and more than a dozen others injured, and Emma Gonzalez, who has spoken out about the need for politicians to enact gun-control legislation.<\/p>\n

    Hogg, a student journalist who\u00a0says he interviewed classmates<\/a>\u00a0during the shooting, has since become one of the most prominent student voices, calling for stricter gun-control measures and characterizing the response of politicians \u2014 and specifically President Trump \u2014\u00a0as “disgusting.”<\/a><\/p>\n

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    In his case, some far-right outlets have pointed to his father’s being a retired FBI agent to suggest something nefarious in the student’s frequent media appearances.<\/p>\n

    “Why would the child of an FBI agent be used as a pawn for anti-Trump rhetoric and anti-gun legislation?” Lucian Wintrich wrote on The Gateway Pundit. “Because the FBI is only looking to curb YOUR Constitutional rights and INCREASE their power. We’ve seen similar moves by them many times over. This is just another disgusting example of it.”<\/p>\n

    On True Pundit, a story linking Hogg and the FBI ran under the headline “Outspoken Trump-Hating School Shooting Survivor is Son of FBI Agent; MSM Helps Prop Up Incompetent Bureau.”<\/p>\n

    “The kid who has been running his mouth about how Donald Trump and the GOP are teaming to help murder high school kids by upholding the Second Amendment is the son of an FBI agent,” an unnamed author wrote. “David Hogg is a school shooting survivor in Florida. At least that is what the mainstream media has told us. We wouldn’t be surprised by anything involving the FBI at this point.”<\/p>\n

    Pro-Trump accounts have shared the stories on Twitter and in some cases have thousands of retweets. The conservative One America News Network promoted a tweet suggesting Hogg may be “running cover for his dad who works as an FBI agent at the Miami field office.”<\/p>\n

    The stories gained even more attention when Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr.,\u00a0liked that tweet<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0another post<\/a>\u00a0sharing the True Pundit story.<\/p>\n

    This is ‘the work of a disgusting group of idiots with no sense of decency’<\/h2>\n

    Later on Tuesday, True Pundit\u00a0posted<\/a>\u00a0another story under the headline “BUSTED: Trump-Hating School Shooting Survivor Visited CNN HQ Before the Shooting; Ranted Live on CNN After.”<\/p>\n

    The far-right publication published photos, claiming to be of Hogg, both at a CNN newsdesk and wearing a CNN T-shirt before last week’s shooting.<\/p>\n

    “But now we learn Hogg was hanging out at CNN headquarters in Atlanta, GA sometime Before the school shooting,” the unnamed author wrote. “Before the shooting. Posing behind an news anchor desk? Perhaps Hogg’s career dream is to sign on with the network \u2014 a young Jake Tapper \u2014 as he has portrayed himself since the deadly shooting that claimed 17 students as a ‘student journalist and entrepreneur.'”<\/p>\n

    Some people online pointed to footage of Hogg from a CBS Los Angeles newscast last summer, when he discussed how his friend got into a verbal altercation with a life guard, as proof that he was an actor who appears at various crises.<\/p>\n

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    Others went after Gonzalez for being “coached” on how to respond to the incident.<\/p>\n

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    Emma Gonzalez forgot ask why nothing was done after the authorities were called to the shooters house 39 times or why the FBI ignored the threat. <\/p>\n

    This chick was coached. Democrats used a innocent girl as a pawn.<\/p>\n

    — Kambree (@KamVTV) February 17, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n