About that disruption...pizzagate
The protester who interrupted the start of today’s impeachment hearing was Owen Shroyer, who works as a host at the far right-wing conspiracy site InfoWars.
The protester who interrupted the start of today’s impeachment hearing was Owen Shroyer, who works as a host at the far right-wing conspiracy site InfoWars.
Shroyer was active in spreading the most bizarre conspiracy theory of the 2016 presidential election, that Hillary Clinton was running a pedophile ring through a string of pizza restaurants
The spreading of the extravagant fabricated allegations led to staff at the targeted restaurants being subjected to threats and harassment. An armed man turning up a Washington pizzeria in December 2016 with an AR-15 assault rifle,
threatening staff and shooting off the lock of a cupboard, in pursuit of “investigating” the pedophile claims. He was sentenced to four years in jail.
Standing up at the back of the hearings room, interrupting committee chairman Jerry Nadler, Shroyer yelled: “You’re the one committing treason. America is done with this.”
