It’s become the hottest new trend in American politics: today’s “right-wing conspiracy” is tomorrow’s breaking news.
In the latest entry into this genre, a Department of Justice Inspector General report last week revealed that the FBI had at least 26 informants in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021, the day of the Capitol riot. According to the report, at least four informants entered the Capitol itself, while another 13 entered the restricted area around the building. Despite the FBI claiming that it did not give any informants permission to break the law, none have been charged with a crime.
“For those keeping score at home, this was labeled a dangerous conspiracy theory months ago,” Vice President-elect JD Vance wrote on X in response to the story in a post that has now garnered 59 million views. Indeed, until this bombshell report, the Biden administration and the corporate media had derided anyone who suggested that there were FBI agents or assets at the riot as “conspiracy theorists.”
But this case is hardly the only recent instance of a “conspiracy theory” turning into verified fact. Here are just a few other prominent examples.
The Hunter Biden Laptop
In perhaps the most blatant election-year censorship campaign in American history, the Democrat Party, corporate media, and Deep State actors in the intelligence community conspired to discredit details about the infamous Hunter Biden laptop as “Russian disinformation.”
On October 14, 2020, just weeks before Election Day, the New York Post published a bombshell story about the laptop’s contents. The emails on the laptop detailed Hunter Biden’s business dealings in Ukraine and China and pointed to the involvement of Joe Biden in those dealings while he was vice president.
Twitter and Facebook quickly blocked users from sharing the story, with Twitter banning the Post’s entire account. With no evidence, 50 intelligence officials signed a letter claiming the story was planted by Russia as an election interference scheme, a claim parroted by the rest of the establishment media.
Anyone claiming that the laptop story was legitimate was quickly branded a “conspiracy theorist.”
Only after Joe Biden was securely in the White House did The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other major outlets admit the veracity of the laptop’s contents. In 2022, the release of “The Twitter Files” confirmed that federal bureaucrats had coordinated with Big Tech companies to censor the story – enshrining yet another “conspiracy theory” in the historical record.
Trump’s 2016 Campaign Was Spied On
Donald Trump himself earned the title of “conspiracy theorist” following the 2016 election for claiming that the Hillary Clinton campaign was working with Obama administration officials to spy on his campaign.
For years, the media openly mocked Trump and anyone who repeated this “conspiracy theory.”
Years later, however, we know that Trump was exactly correct. The Obama FBI used unverified and completely bogus claims from Clinton campaign operatives to obtain a FISA warrant to monitor Trump campaign officials.
In other words, as The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board put it in 2022, “Trump really was spied on.”
The COVID-19 Lab Leak Theory
In February 2020, The New York Times blasted Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton for repeating what the paper called a “fringe conspiracy theory” that the virus which caused COVID-19 may have escaped from a Chinese lab. The media similarly mocked Trump and any other conservative who defended the plausibility of the lab leak theory and demanded more transparency from China.
Democrats and the corporate media instead aligned with Beijing, focusing on discrediting Trump. Those who questioned the narrative that COVID-19 originated in a Wuhan wet market faced backlash, were deplatformed, or even investigated by federal authorities. The Times suppressed a story by one of its own science writers that supported the lab leak theory, while other outlets dismissed the hypothesis as “debunked.”
Fast forward to February 2023, and the FBI concluded that a lab leak was not only possible, but the “probable” source of the pandemic, an assessment supported by the Department of Health and Human Services.
Democrats and the media have since been forced to change their tune on the lab leak theory, though apologies have been sparse to the so-called “conspiracy theorists” who called to investigate it in the first place.
Transgender Surgeries for Minors
One of the most pernicious left-wing lies to arise in recent years is the claim that doctors are not performing irreversible transgender surgeries on minor children. With rare exceptions, the corporate media has been happy to repeat transgender activists’ line that conservative outrage over transgender surgery on minors is nothing but right-wing fearmongering.
But according to a report out this October, at least 5,700 children underwent transgender surgeries between 2019 and 2023. Not only are transgender surgeries on minors happening, they are far more widespread than even many on the right previously believed. That shockingly high number also does not even include the thousands of other children as young as eight years old who have been placed on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.
There are undoubtedly plenty of actual conspiracy theories out there with no basis in reality. But increasingly it seems as if “conspiracy theory” may have a new definition when it comes to American politics: an obvious truth that Democrats and their allies in the media don’t want the public to believe.
Shane Harris is a writer and political consultant from Southwest Ohio. You can follow him on X @shaneharris513.
The very term “Conspiracy Theorist” appears to be the government’s way to demonize or belittle anyone who questions their narrative. Unfortunately truth and facts tend to get in the way. Now when I hear that term bandied around, you kinda expect it’s what they’re hiding.
Once again living proof that if Democrats are speaking, they are lying. I don’t know how anyone can belong to the Democrat Party and look at themselves in the mirror every morning. Their entire lives are nothing but a lie. I just cannot wrap my head around the fact that people identify with Democrats and vote for them. Their personal lives must be a shambles if they identify with lies as a way of governing. Obviously the Democrat Party intends to burn this nation to the ground just so they can rule over the ashes. The Democrat Party is the epitome of evil. Judgment will be Swift and eternal.
FBI is corrupt, Its a very SAD day for America.
this is one reason to get rid of professional politicians no salaries no benefits no retirements your only pay is expenses you go home until needed again like when the nation was founded for the good of the country and the people
Jan 6th was a setup and that nonsense committee was like something in a Banana Republic. I’m hoping it will all be exposed very soon.
During the 2020 election five states administratively changed their voting procedures under the guise of making sure voters could vote during the covid pandemic. Why only five states when all the states had the same circumstances yet did not change their procedures? The Constitution requires that voting procedures be established by the state legislatures, yet courts where the procedures were contested ignored the Constitution and permitted those states to make the changes administratively. What states were they? They were Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Nevada. All of these states were won by Joe Biden! Is it still a conspiracy theory that the election was stolen? You can make up your own mind. I am just saying.
The Russia Hoax was another example of the Progressives calling we, who actually sought out the REAL news instead of ingesting the FAKE news. So far, it seems that every far-left lie against President Trump has been proven to be false. Of course, none of the perpetrators will ever come forth and apologize for their lying and some of the lies they still hold on to after they were proven false. I was so happy that Stephanopoulos and ABC were found guilty of lying and have to pay Trump!!
I do believe that the number of government assets on January 6th will get much higher as the truth slowly comes out.
Is there any doubt now about why the Democrats are pushing for censorship?
I would love to see an article listing all (or at least many of the major) “conspiracy theories” that have since been proven true. I have so many friends that still watch mainstream media, and would like to be able to show them just how much their news source is lying to them.
I was looked upon as a crazy conspiracy theorist, a fascists and on and on. From family and friends. And all these things have been proven to be the truth. Do you hear any apologies from these people who ostracized me. No. A democrat admitting they made a mistake. It’s your fault for spreading the truth. They see it as lies. We have to accept their truth as gospel. It will be a long time before these democrats who were brainwashed under Obama, to think as an American and get empathy back. They almost got away with it, destroying this country. Biden is still working hard to undermine Trump. Only he is hurting the country and its people instead. Their lies are hurting this country with the 20 million illegals we, the taxpayers have to support while many citizens go hungry or even have their homes taken from them. People are complaining to their local leaders and not one word is uttered from them on how they are going to solve this problem. More and more will come out in the next 4 years. Especially about Jan 6. We have known the full truth for the past 4 years and the truth is going to come out, they won’t be able to get away with calling it a conspiracy. And those responsible will pay.
If there is anything everyone should have learned by now, it is that the louder and harder the Left and their media whores scream about something not being true, that it’s just “another right-wing conspiracy theory,” the more likely it’s absolutely true.
It is not so much the term “conspiracy theory” that offends, but the word conspiracy. It is a term that enables parts of our government to avoid prosecution under the correct term which is “insurrection” of which they are fully aware that any plotting by civil servants against the President, the People of the United States of America, or the Constitution constitutes just that. It is why the J6ers were charged with insurrection because it is the one term referring to rebellion that allows for the writ of habeas corpus and due process to be suspended under the constitution, for political prisoners to be held without charges brought, and for their rights to be “legally” violated. Ridicule that is then proven to be undeserved is not so much the issue, what is the issue is the malicious terminology used to intentionally hurt, and imprison political opponents by left wing partisan politically motivated civil servants. Civil servants, paid with our taxpayer dollars, who maliciously impacted innocent American individuals, and their families’ lives, liberty, and property based upon choice of terminology. DOGE will have to look into more than just efficiency, and redundancy, but overreach, and weaponization for the partisan left, global organizations, and corporations as well. When government uses the term “insurrection” against citizens then it should no longer be allowed to hide their own insurrection behind a convenient “wink wink” cloaking term such as “conspiracy”, of which we now know they were heavily engaged in against President Trump, conservatives, Christians, Jews, and those imprisoned under the title J6ers. Furthermore those who engaged in furthering CRT, and DEI practices which violate basic values and principles of equality under our law, and sought to embed this form of discrimination based upon ethnic identity into our federal government will have to be investigated and removed from government service permanently as well. What 8 years of Obama, and now another 4 years of Biden have created is not just a mess foreign and domestic, but an immense governmental cess pool as well that will need to be drained, detoxified, filled in, or entirely removed after evaluating what is absolutely necessary and constitutional for the federal government to function with minimal impact on the daily lives of American citizens. With $36 trillion in the whole we can no longer afford this government, and if on top it doesn’t work for us then it is time to cut back to bare bones, create term limits not just for politicians but civil service as well, and eliminate any, and all benefits associated with government service.
EVERY AGENCY, EVERY DEPARTMENT (and almost all of the Damnocrap Party, and the Fake News medias) in the Biden Crime administration (and his Crime family), gives NEW definitions and literal meanings to the words CORRRUPT, LIARS, DECEITFUL, and EVIL just to name four. These are there are the true AMERICA-HATING ENEMIES WITHIN.
This is the reason why the words “…..support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic…” The above paragraph precisely identifies the ‘DOMESTIC’ ENEMIES WITHIN.
Federal government are enemies of truth, and enemies of the people. So sad.
Conspiracy “Theorist” is a term coined by the left and MSM to cancel or shut down the argument from the conservative voice, and to a large extent they’ve been successful. In FACT, the conspiracy has never been a theory and now it has metastasized to what America has become. My reaction now when someone calls me a conspiracy theorist is to metaphorically shove the words back down their gullet because reality ain’t some Marxist’s utopian dream, no matter how educated they think they are.
Yeah, you could say I’m angry and I’m not alone.
See Roy Epps for J6 issues alone
Conspiacies? Only Democrat ones! Oops, sorry…. love to continue my comment but I have to log onto the Ritchies auction site to bid pennies on the dollar for allocated border wall materials being sold off in Tucson before Trump can use it!
THANK YOU, Shane, for Publishing that!!! EVERYONE NEEDS TO READ IT! Everyone needs to KNOW those Facts – and MORE!!! so many MORE! I believe they’re ALL going to come out – and they SHOULD. America NEEDS TO KNOW how MUCH they were LIED TO by the ones they ‘trust’ – the MSM and their Govt.!!! because we HAVE to KNOW to be ‘informed’ and to do something ABOUT ALL THIS LYING and DECEIT and CORRUPTION!!! And I believe DJT fully intends to DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!! And I, for one, am in Full Support of Whatever this Admin. DOES to REMOVE all the puss!
What is truly sad is that myself and others like me with common sense figured all of this out way back in 2016.
Can you say Conspiracy Factist?
LOL, even suggesting that the conspiracy fact phenomenon is real is labeled as a Conspiracy Theory! Sheesh . . .
Well,I see our dear old whiny adam shiffless is complaining about President Trump probably pardoning Jan 6 protestors.Someone should tell this being that what goes around,comes around.It’s alright for biden,but not Trump.They should not have been jailed anyway,they were protesting an election that was rigged by the democ rats and now look at the mess they made in AMERICA.
Why should the voting public, or any American citizen, believe anything the government has to say, or obey any of their promulgations?
Anyone that performs transgender surgery on ANY minor should be jailed. It should not be allowed until the child is 21…or at least 18.
I would like a detailed list of the crimes and acts of treason committed by crooked joe, his crime family, the justice department of the biden/harris administration, the liberal driven fbi, and alejandro mayorkas illegal running of the border, secret service, homeland security, PLUS all his LIES to Congress. Did you know that anthony blinken wrote then distruibuted the false story and lie that the hidden “hunter laptop” was from russian interference in our election? And that his and bidens LIE altered the results of the 2020 election?? The emails on the laptop detailed Hunter Biden’s business dealings in Ukraine and China and pointed to the involvement of Joe Biden in those dealings while he was vice president. This IS treason, acts of sabotage against a sitting U.S. President that involved all our own security departments and the whole obama/biden administration??
Senator Joe McCarthy asserted in 1952 that communists had infiltrated our government. He was hounded to death for his “communist conspiracy”. This theme was picked up by the John Birch Society since its formation in 1958 unto this day. Another conspiracy proven to be “communist fact”.
I want to know what parent in their right mind would agree to this mutilation of a child???They need prosecuted for child endangerment/ child abuse and the doctors who agreed to do the procedures should be disbarred. Mental illness runs rampant in the US
I do not care that this was legal. parents who did this are a waste of space, taking up needed resources like water, air, food, etc
Why not put them in prison, and make them work to pay for their crimes, instead of letting them live in luxury the rest of their wicked life.
I can hardly wait on the actual information regarding the drones.
Recently Adam Schiff condemned those “conspiracy theorists on the right.” Mr. Russian Collusion himself. I kid you not.
I strongly felt that J-6 was a set-up from the start. To many bad actors planted in the crowd dressed as President Trump supporters. Many were seen on video tape committing acts of violence. They were all let out the back door and never arrested or charged for their part in the planned breach set up by Nancy Pelosi. She green lighted her planned breach when she refused the request from the Sergeant of Arms to call up the National Guard on the morning of January sixth.
They are trying to get in front of their lies before Trump exposes them.
Let us add the current drone mystery. Either a rail car of radioactive material, possibly available for a terrorist “dirty” bomb, has gone missing, or, one of the dozens of Soviet nukes missing after the collapse and reported by the IAEA as inventory short, has made its way into the U.S.
Possibly the drones, too many to not be controlled by a govt, are equipped to locate high radioactive release.
OR, is it just another conspiracy? Maybe to force a martial law like they did in So Korea? Before Jan 20? Or just another conspiracy????