Amid a blatant Twitter comment about his election loss on Tuesday night, President Donald Trump launched a savage conspiracy theory about Georgia Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger that was so outrageous that the Far-right website Gateway Pundit 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 so stupid. It will only allow us to find the crime and turn the state into a republican … ”the president he tweeted before focusing his attention on Raffensperger. “It turns out now 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 noted by CNN data verifier Daniel Dale, is that Brad Raffensperger has no brother. Georgia journalist Stephen Fowler was one of them first to disassemble the theory that Brad is related to Ron Raffensperger, a random man with the same last name who serves as CTO for a subsidiary of the Huawei conglomerate.