In the midst of an unhinged Twitter rant about his election loss late on Tuesday night, President Donald Trump tossed out a wild conspiracy theory about Republican Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger that was so outrageous that far-right website Gateway Pundit recently made an article making the same claim. .
“I like the Great State of Georgia, but the people running it, the Governor, @BrianKempga, according to the Secretary of State, a complete disaster and have no idea, or worse. No one can be that stupid. Allow us to find the crime and make the state a Republican … “the president tweeted before turning his attention to Raffensperger. “Now it turns out that Brad R’s brother works for China,” he added, “and they definitely don’t want ‘Trump’. So dirty!”
One of the many problems with those tweets, as CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale noted, is that Brad Raffensperger has no brother. Georgia reporter Stephen Fowler was one of the first to expose the theory that Brad is related to Ron Raffensperger, a random man with the same last name who serves as CTO for a subsidiary of the Huawei conglomerate.