DID DONALD TRUMP JR. REALLY THREATEN ANTHONY FAUCI ON INSTAGRAM?

Vox's Aaron Rupar tweeted this last night:

From Don Jr’s Instagram story tonight pic.twitter.com/DSJJuSbOfV

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 5, 2021

The message in the image reads,

I'M GONNA JUST JUMP OUT AHEAD ON THIS AND SAY I DON'T THINK FAUCI KILLED HIMSELF

Many of Rupar's followers interpreted this as a death threat.

Ordinary citizens who participate on Twitter get visits from the Secret Service for less than this. Oh, wait. Ordinary citizens don’t already have SS protection. A conundrum for our time.

— What Its Supposed to Look Like 💛💙💛💙🐝 (@EB_PDX) June 5, 2021

As if the situation in America wasn't already enough like 1930s Germany.

Trump is putting the run on scientists.

— Robert Jordan (@col_ludlow) June 5, 2021

First Flynn and now this. This is a goddamn death threat. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE ARREST THESE PEOPLE.

— brooklyn jaymes (@brook_jaymes) June 5, 2021

I speak wingnut, and I assure you it's not a death threat. It's a conspiratorial prediction of a violent act by our side: The libs killed Jeffrey Epstein so he wouldn't spill the beans about their evil pedophile network that includes all the powerful liberals in the world and no conservatives, and the libs will do the same thing to Fauci soon to prevent him from spilling the beans about their evil plot to unleash the China virus in order to bring down Donald Trump.

This is what GOP rank-and-file voters believe. They believe we want to destroy America. They think there's no bottom to our depravity.

This is from the newsletter of Richard Viguerie, who pioneered the direct-mail tactics Republicans used starting in the 1960s:

... while the debate over the “lab leak theory” is suddenly new to viewers of CNN, MSNBC and subscribers to the New York Times and Washington Post, from the beginning there has been no debate on this among honest intelligence professionals and Communist China watchers.

The debate there has been, was the “lab leak” an accident or intentional, and once the virus was outside the lab, were the actions of the Chinese Communist government incompetent or intended to spread the virus and maximize the damage to the West?

As we pointed out in our April 3, 2020 article “Left Moving From Proof Of Concept To Execution On Plan To Bring Down America” the COVID pandemic provided a near-perfect proof of concept to the Chinese Communists on how to conduct a stealth bio-warfare attack on the West.

And we don’t need to read the minutes of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee to know the COVID virus was engineered – we now have Dr. Fauci’s email to prove it.

What’s more, it is clear the evidence the virus was engineered was known and discussed on the inside but kept from the public through evasion and outright lies and suppression of the information by the establishment news media and social media platforms.

That's what Donald Trump Jr. believes. That's what they all believe. They think Fauci conspired with the Chinese to destroy America -- to the right, defeating President Trump was the key to destroying America -- and while their brave truth-telling is now bringing the facts of this sinister plot to light, we still have an evil plan to disappear Fauci and cover up the murder, in the desperate hope that we can prevent the full story from being told.

I'll give Oliver Willis the last word.

conservatives have been primed for 50+ years to believe the worst possible about the left. and in super-concentrated form since 1996 when fox news launched. you can literally tell them *anything* "the left" did and most of them will immediately believe it.

— Oliver Willis (@owillis) June 4, 2021