CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan Stuns Anchor With Blizzard of Kamala Harris Conspiracies And Fakes: Many ‘Very Blatantly’ Racist

CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan stunned anchor Kate Bolduan with a report on the false conspiracy attacks against Vice President Kamala Harris proliferating among Trump fans and surrogates — many of which he says are “very blatantly” racist.

O’Sullivan specializes in reporting on the fringes of the conservative and pro-Trump movement, and has been tracking conspiracies and memes since President Joe Biden dropped out and VP Harris ascended to the position of presumptive nominee.

On Wednesday’s edition of CNN News Central, O’Sullivan slammed Trumpworld figures — some of whom are “hiding their racism better than others” while many are “very blatant about it”:

KATE BOLDUAN: CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan tracking this one for us is joining us now. Donie, what do you seeing?

DONIE O’SULLIVAN: Hey, Kate. Yeah, look, as you said, there just every sort of conspiracy theory imaginable floating around online. It’s really like, you know, a lot of prominent Trump supporters are trying to test out as seeing what will stick as such.

And look, some of these folks are hiding their racism better than others. Other people are being very blatant about it. I mean, just to give you a sense of the range, of what is being said, there is even a birther conspiracy theory, throwback to, Trump and Obama. Of course, there’s no basis at all whatsoever for that. The current vice president is eligible, to be president.

Also, we’re seeing a lot of altered videos and images. Some of them are quite crude. I want to just give you an example, of one which I think we can show a side by side here.

There is an image, of, the of the vice president there, which, as you can see on the right hand side, her husband, the second gentleman, and obviously been manipulated there on the left to, put in, a photo of Jeffrey Epstein.

So, look, stuff like that is pretty simple. It’s pretty crude. But when there is so much stuff of it floating around, online, it can, reemerge and be used to kind of paint, these various different narratives online.

And even though, you know, you might look at that image side by side and say, well, you know, clearly that’s a fake. Sometimes people encounter this stuff, on social media, on their own. It’s not always as clear. And it can kind of play into this idea.

And, you know, I think one thing that’s important to mention here as well, Kate, is we were both at the, RNC last week. And one thing that struck me from being there is that we saw so many different these new kind of propaganda outlets, the type of outlets that Steve Bannon is on, that Mike Lindell is posting.

And these outlets are growing hugely. They’re pushing propaganda, pushing this kind of misinformation at the same time as local newspapers and journalists are being laid off, across the country. So, really making the waters much murkier as we go into this election.

KATE BOLDUAN: It’s great perspective and context. I was just thinking it was just last week, you and I sitting together, talking about conspiracy theories that were swirling over the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. And now we’ve got a whole new batch. Man, oh, man. The times we’re in!

Watch above via CNN News Central.

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