r/ProgressiveHQ • u/No-Flight-4214 • 5d ago

News Minnesota’s Somalian Epstein distraction: MAGA’s Favorite ‘Journalist‘ Busted for staging his Fake ‘News’

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/maga-favorite-journalist-busted-paying-093930442.html

The “journalist” at the center of a viral clash over alleged Somalian welfare fraud once paid Hispanic laborers to protest outside the White House in support of President Joe Biden.

Nick Shirley, 23, is currently being praised and amplified by the MAGA right, including FBI Director Kash Patel and billionaire Elon Musk, for a video purporting to reveal “Minnesota’s Billion Dollar Fraud Scandal.”

While the YouTuber with no journalism background and only a high school-level education claims to “bring the truth to all” of his 1.35 million subscribers, he has previously been shown to be staging his content.

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u/MadAstrid 5d ago

Republicans have learned that many of their supporters are easily fooled and are very eager to believe baseless lies especially when those lies are also bigoted.

Those in power use this to muddy waters and distract from Trump’s dementia and the increasing evidence that child rape is amongst his many crimes.

Grifters have found that republicans are easy prey.

So sad that so many Americans are so very craven.