Pro-Trump Twitter says pipe bomb spree is a ‘false flag’ attack by liberals, of course
- According to a right-wing narrative, the bombs targeting Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were sent by liberals to boost the Democrat vote next month
Little was known, except that the US Secret Service had intercepted “potential explosive devices” targeting the Clintons and Obamas, while investigators were looking into a suspicious package at CNN’s New York offices, later confirmed to be a pipe bomb.
Days earlier, authorities found just such an explosive device in the mailbox of liberal philanthropist George Soros.
We did not know who sent them, or why.
But John Cardillo, a right-wing media personality, was already tweeting out his suspicions.
“Investigators need to take a serious look at far left groups like #Antifa when investigating the bombs sent to Soros, Obama, and the Clintons,” he wrote in a now-deleted tweet. “These smell like the false flag tactics of unhinged leftists who know they’re losing.”