The live-stream of Donald Trump’s Arizona rally from Right Side Broadcasting, a right-wing website known for streaming Trump’s events, took a conspiratorial turn when one attendee insisted that California Gov. Gavin Newsom had been executed and replaced with a clone.
"Newsom’s a clone, OK? They just took him out," the rally goer told RSBN’s Brian Glenn before the Jan. 15 event in Florence, Arizona. "The real Governor Newsom has had his military tribunal at Gitmo. He’s been executed. OK?"
The claim appeared to be a reference to recent articles on Real Raw News, a misinformation website that regularly publishes made-up stories alleging that various public figures have been arrested by the military, transported to Guantanamo Bay, tried and executed. Similar narratives have taken hold in the past among some supporters and promoters of the QAnon conspiracy theory.
The website’s lead story from Jan. 3: "Gavin Newsom Gets Death Penalty."
This nonsense storyline — arrested by military, executed at Gitmo and replaced by the deep state with a clone — is a regular narrative on the conspiracy theory website Real Raw News. The site has spun the same misinformation about Newsom in recent months. https://t.co/0cxHti9Gkv https://t.co/9AhjTthWuo
— Bill McCarthy (@billdmccarthy) January 16, 2022
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