Thread by @mattsheffield

Fox News and the rest of right-wing media is about to blame the entire #TrumpCoupAttempt on a random leftist from Utah who was there to document the insurrection. They're gonna try to pin it all on him, watch.

Right on cue. The sausage factory is in motion.

This dude is about to make some serious bank.

More sausage being made. Fox News was more careful with their actual article but the headline gives away what they're trying to do.

John Sullivan needs to lawyer up, stat, to put the kibosh on this defamation. Where are the progressive legal groups?

Worth adding here that Sullivan has been explicitly denounced by various local antifa groups. But most right wingers don't do research, they just publish confirmation bias.

https://twitter.com/RebellionBaby/status/1331902008765206528?s=20

Great point here:

https://twitter.com/mashe13/status/1347437348376686592?s=20

Even more outrageously, conservative media figures are actually claiming that white nationalist Trump supporters are really antifa activists.

Here's one of many posts saying that Matt Heimbach, who was denounced by Philly Antifa, is actually antifa. Jake Angeli is featured, too

Here's the info on Heimbach, in case you don't know of him. He was a Christian white nationalist cult leader for years counterextremism.com/extremists/mat…

And here's Angeli: independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…

More right wing slander sausage. Third pic is the TX attorney general citing a now-erased tweet. Paxton hasn't retracted as yet.

As is often the case with far-right disinformation, it's hard to tell where gullibility ends and maliciousness begins.

Good fact check here:

https://twitter.com/arthurmacmillan/status/1347583773043544064?s=20