From the Pizzagate Basement to the House Floor: Meet the Conspiracy Caucus
They have a loose grip on reality and a vote in the House of Representatives and their power is only increasing.
MATT LASLO
05.29.18 4:41 AM ET
There’s a group of bomb throwers on Capitol Hill who are growing more vocal by the day, advocating for everything from impeaching senior justice officials to prosecuting immigration attorneys.
Many are members of the conservative Freedom Caucus, but they’ve gone so far down the rabbit hole, this group might as well be called the Conspiracy Caucus and they are starting to put their theories into actual legislative text.
These back bench bomb throwers have always been in Congress, but they were one, maybe two votes out of 435 and no one really took them seriously. But now as definition of fact has been increasingly bent by the Trump administration, paired with the use of social media to spread fringe theories, mixed with the 24-hour news cycle and the increasingly partisan media landscape has allowed those who used to be constrained to lobbing molotov cocktails from afar to have an audience of millions.
Just last week nearly 20 House Republicans unveiled a new bill calling for the appointment of a second special counsel. But they aren’t calling for this person to investigate Russia or potential conflicts of interests in the administration or even the president’s secret payments to one porn star or another.
Instead, the group is dead set on uncovering what they argue is the biggest scandal Washington’s ever witnessed: The Clintons. That’s right. The two private citizens who now live in a quiet wooded community in New York, one of whom lost the presidential contest to the man who is now the center of the first special counsel investigation that’s already produced close to 20 indictments.
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