What Is Pizzagate Scandal: Fake News, Conspiracy Theory Or Establishment Coverup?

Oddly nobody seems to recognize that the election was a month ago, and Donald Trump won. If Pizzagate was just a damage limitation exercise by elements of the Trump support why has it not simply faded away?

The Washington Post has used an opinion piece to declare that Pizzagate is "the new normal in Trump's America."

"There was a time when threats against journalists, like threats of any sort of political violence, were exceedingly rare. But in Trump's America, such threats are neither rare nor idle.

"If you doubt that, consider the events in recent days at Comet Ping Pong, the family pizza place in Northwest Washington I've been frequenting with my daughter ever since she was a toddler a decade ago. Lately, the owner and staff at Comet — and those of other businesses on the block — have been getting death threats, spurred by radio host Alex Jones, a conspiracy theorist with close ties to the president-elect."

"If you doubt that, consider the events in recent days at Comet Ping Pong, the family pizza place in Northwest Washington I've been frequenting with my daughter ever since she was a toddler a decade ago. Lately, the owner and staff at Comet — and those of other businesses on the block — have been getting death threats, spurred by radio host Alex Jones, a conspiracy theorist with close ties to the president-elect."

"The conspiracy is untrue and easily disprovable. For example, the sex ring is supposed to be run out of the [ Comet Ping Pong] basement, but the owner told the BBC, 'We don't even have a basement.'"

"Well, we make everything from scratch. Other restaurants, even good restaurants, will, like, not roast their own peppers.

"Like our sauce, we harvest a whole crop of organic tomatoes, 10 tons of tomatoes every year. Can them all, store them in the basement, have like a harvest party when it gets loaded in."

"Like our sauce, we harvest a whole crop of organic tomatoes, 10 tons of tomatoes every year. Can them all, store them in the basement, have like a harvest party when it gets loaded in."

If there is a shred of truth to Pizzagate, it would be the most horrific and disturbing scandal of the century. Pizzagate "citizen investigators" clearly believe that the mainstream media have their "eyes wide shut" when it comes to Pizzagate. Admittedly, Pizzagate asks us to consider a subject that is just too dark for most people to contemplate. The thought that the rich and the political elite could be involved in the ritual abuse of children is just too horrible to consider.

Yet Jeffrey Epstein, Jimmy Savile, and numerous others, in the last few years have shown us that child abuse is a huge and seemingly growing problem.

In the internet age saying that "Pizzagate is fake news" because the mainstream media say so, just won't wash. High-class and thorough investigative journalism may yet prove that Pizzagate is indeed fantasy, but until someone presents thorough and verifiable evidence that Pizzagate is no more than a right-wing plot, then citizen investigators will keep digging.

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