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American presidential election 2024: among Donald Trump’s supporters, conspiracy theorists
Journalists from franceinfo’s true or false unit met one of Donald Trump’s supporters, who believes that he was “stolen the election” in 2020.
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Journalists from franceinfo’s true or false unit met one of Donald Trump’s supporters, who believes that he was “stolen the election” in 2020.
Vic Mellor, millionaire and former marine, is a supporter of Donald Trump. He built a children’s park, called “The Hollow” to instill in them the values of America. Among these, the handling of weapons. The True or False teams met with him in Sarasota, Florida. “Everything is planned”, assures Vic Mellor, support of Donald Trump, owner of “The Hollow”. According to him, elites want to reduce the world to slavery. He believes that global warming does not exist and that it was created to manipulate farmers.
Theories shared by the QAnon movement
He was among the Donald Trump supporters who invaded the Capitol after the 2020 presidential election results gave Joe Biden president and he believes Donald Trump had his election stolen. “He adheres to false theories found in Donald Trump’s electorate”indicates Luc Brisson, journalist at the true false cell of Franceinfo, present on the set of 19/20 info, Tuesday March 5.
“There is a whole anti-elite discourse (…) This is something that we find a lot in the QAnon movement, QAnon, it is an extreme right movement, support of Donald Trump, which regularly shares conspiracy theories and a movement on which Donald Trump relies”concludes Luc Brisson.
