With Conspiracy Theories, All Things Are…Believable

BREAKING: Lauren Boebert says the Steele dossier is rock solid. https://t.co/jxuomqXtOd

— emptywheel (@emptywheel) June 8, 2023

Let’s start over:

A) From colleague Tyler Olson. Boebert after seeing Biden 1023 document: These documents are very damning to the current president of the United States.

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) June 8, 2023

C) Boebert: These are documents that the American people need to see...here are details in the documents that shows just purchases of U.S. businesses..it would be very difficult to prove the innocence, even if attorneys were retained to prove the innocence of the purchases

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) June 8, 2023

It’s a technical point but one doesn’t prove innocence; one proves guilt. And a 1023 is not evidence. It’s an allegation, at best. The information in it was also known to Barr, and even Barr said it was not credible.

So Boebert has just accepted the claims of the Steele dossier; which even Steele said was unverified information.

And Q-Anon/Jewish space lasers lady has thoughts:

I just read the FBI’s FD-1023 form implicating Joe Biden in a political bribery pay-to-play scheme.

Here’s what the American people deserve to know. pic.twitter.com/b3X8qh9MPf

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) June 8, 2023

Partial transcript:

“[The owner] also said that he paid $5 million and he paid $5 million to another Biden," Green said, summarizing the informant's claims, "and it was all a bribery to get Shokin fired and end the investigation into Burisma. He also told the informant this was common practice in Russia and Ukraine. It's common practice, it's part of business there, that's how their culture works, that they will pay bribery money in order to get business deals done."

It’s true because she wants it to be true. Not because it is true. Biden says he was engaged in U.S. foreign policy, a policy approved by most (or all?) of the NATO countries. How big would the conspiracy have to be, for the bribery allegations to even start to be true? Bigger than Q? 

Sure, why not?

There is no proof in this document or anywhere else of money going to Joe Biden. Still waiting for that. Maybe someday.

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 8, 2023

emptywheel is right: Boebert and MTG are endorsing the Steele dossier. Just because, this time, they like what they’re reading.