A self-described ‘s** poster’ launched a Trump conviction conspiracy theory with one Facebook message
Commenter who triggered inquiry described himself as a “professional” internet troll
It was the message by a ‘sh**poster’ heard ‘round the world.
On Friday evening, Justice Juan Merchan, the judge who oversaw Donald Trump’s hush money trial in New York, sent a letter to prosecutors and the former president’s legal team alerting them to a strange, post-verdict development in the case. The court noted that it had become aware of a comment on the New York Courts’ Facebook page from a user named Michael Anderson, who claimed, prior to the guilty verdict being announced, “My cousin is a juror and says Trump is getting convicted.”
The post was made one day before the historic verdict that saw Trump convicted of 34 felonies.
His post helped launch a new wave of conspiracy theories online with some right-wing posters claiming that the Trump trial was rigged and that the former president already faced a verdict before the jury announced its decision. Some were even demanding a mistrial be called.
Others simply labeled him a “troll.”
On his page, Anderson describes himself as a “transabled & a professional shit poster.”
In one of the few messages on the page, posted Friday, the account’s owner elaborates on sh**posting, defining such messages as “intentionally designed to derail discussions or cause the biggest reaction with the least effort,” and tells readers, “Take it easy… I’m a professional shitposter.”
Not the first time MAGA Republicans have attached to shit as truth and won’t be the last.
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Former President Donald Trump’s criminal conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records in New York has led to an upsurge of rhetoric from MAGA-aligned evangelists, wrote Tim Dickinson for Rolling Stone — and they are casting the former president as a religious martyr, and the conviction as a trial for America from which God will deliver the faithful.
Colin Cowherd
“He’s trying to sell me an America that doesn’t exist,” [Cowherd said Thursday on his podcast](https://youtu.be/ehi2y0vuRKQ?t=63). “I live in a nice neighborhood in L.A. and it’s not … one of those swanky neighborhoods, but I don’t see crime. I’m not stumbling over homeless people.”
in attendance,” he continued. “Laker games are full. People have money in their pocket.”
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