What’s happening

It all started innocently enough. On Monday, Donald Trump wrote that some people suffering from the devastation of Hurricane Helen were deliberately ignored because they were Republicans. He said this on his social network Truth Social and Elon Musk’s X.

After that, the presidential candidate hastened to announce that he would go to the state of Georgia, where he met with preacher Franklin Graham and allegedly brought “a lot of relief supplies”, including fuel and equipment. Gizmodo writes that it is interesting that this aid was not approved, calling Trump “a serial liar, [який] “He often attributes things to himself that he didn’t do.”

I’ll be there soon, but I don’t like the messages I’m getting about the federal government and the Democratic state governor doing everything they can to not help people in Republican areas. MAGA!
Trump wrote on Monday.

Shortly afterward, during a photo op with the former president, NBC News reporter Garrett Haake asked Trump about his posts and noted “where that came from,” but Trump replied, “Just look” and walked away.

Birth of a conspiracy theory

After all these statements, a social media phenomenon with more than 2 million followers wrote about the hurricane: He deliberately skipped counties that voted for President Joe Biden in 2020 to hurt traditionally Republican areas. He was likely inspired by previous conspiracy theories claiming that Democrats literally control the weather and all manner of natural disasters; These theories are not the first time.

The storm appeared to almost systematically bypass the bluest areas of these critical swing states, while also destroying the red areas. What a crazy coincidence
On his blog

He also readily acknowledges that “there are a few notable exceptions, such as Asheville (60% blue).”

However, it is unclear how far this conspiracy theory will go. It has great potential against the backdrop of current disasters covering parts of the United States. In connection with Hurricane Helen. For example, in the aforementioned Asheville, water rose to the roofs.

Another indictment claims that all the disasters were staged to prevent Trump from speaking in Valdosta, Georgia. The author writes that “400 roads are still closed” and many are completely destroyed.

Meanwhile, raging fires continue in Hawaii, indicating that Democrats and Biden himself are using “directed energy weapons,” according to conspiracy theorists.

Trump supporters are now spreading other conspiracy theories that are not about the weather. Yes, the preparations for the parade in South Korea were followed by World War III in the USA. They mix it up as preparation for World War II, accuse Democrats of deliberately derailing a train in Ohio, and other things.