Guy quoted by Trump earlier today is a Trayvon Martin conspiracy theorist, and more

[Miles Archer]

For context, see Trump's tweets in my earlier thread: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210213683

Tom Fitton, quoted by Trump:

In July 2013, Fitton gained widespread attention for Judicial Watch in conservative media after a jury found George Zimmerman not guilty in the death of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida, when Fitton appeared in numerous interviews to claim that the Obama administration's Department of Justice had sent representatives to Sanford in the wake of Martin’s death "to help organize and manage rallies and protests against George Zimmerman." PolitiFact rated Fitton's claim "mostly false."[9]

In July 2013, Fitton was identified as a key member of Groundswell, a secretive coalition of right-wing activists and journalists attempting to make radical political change behind the scenes, whose members met in the offices of Judicial Watch.[10][11]

Fitton has expressed scepticism of climate change.[12] He has said "There has been scandal after scandal involving climate data and we are skeptical of government agencies that won’t tell people what they are up to... I’m sure scientists are concerned that funding for dubious research will be cut, but the truth will win out in the end."[12] Judicial Watch, which has claimed that climate science is "fraud science", has filed lawsuits seeking to force the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to release the correspondence of climate scientists who published a 2015 study in the journal Science.[13][14] The study had debunked one of the common claims made by those who reject the scientific consensus on climate change, namely that there existed global warming "hiatus" between 1998-2012.[13] The Climate Science Legal Defense Fund (CSLDF), American Meteorological Society and Union of Concerned Scientists condemned Judicial Watch, saying that the disclosure of private communications between scientists "would harm (or halt altogether) government scientists' ability to collaborate with colleagues, damage the government's ability to recruit or retain top scientists, and deter critically important research into politically charged fields like climate change".[13] The Judicial Watch lawsuit was inspired by Rep. Lamar Smith, who had accused the authors of the study of "alter[ing] data" to "get the politically correct results they want."[13]

Fitton has made claims about voter fraud, saying "We have all heard about voter fraud and the attempts by liberal media organs like the New York Times and Ivory Tower academics to dismiss it as a nonexistent problem. But is it real, widespread, and substantial to the point that it can decide elections."[16]

In December 2017, Fitton said that "the FBI's been compromised”. He then asked whether the FBI should be shut down, asserting that it had "turned into a KGB-type operation by the Obama administration".[17] Newsweek rated the claim "false", noting that "there is no comparison between the FBI and KGB."[18]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Fitton

[underpants]

1. More like Shitton

He's a big hit on the right. I see nonsense from him on Facebook a lot.