Michael Smerconish: Aaron Rodgers: Sandy Hook & Other MAGA Conspiracy Theories

Source:Michael Smerconish- just to correct the record: Aaron Rodgers has never actually played an NFL game for the New York Jets. He broke his foot during the preseason last year. So maybe he should trade his NY Jets cap, for a MAGA hat. And maybe wear a t-shirt that has a picture of Alex Jones or Donald Trump screaming at someone. Because that's who he & RFK JR. represent.

Source:The New Democrat

Aaron Rodgers: "They're All Actors" 

From Michael Smerconish 

From what I wrote about Robert F. Kennedy JR. for President last week: 

"As an at best Independent Democrat at this point, whose not in love with the Democratic Party politically, or really anything else, for that matter, I would love to see Robert F. Kennedy JR. run for President as a Libertarian. Why? Because it would just confirm what I, what this blog, and what a lot of other Democrats believe about RFK JR. that he's simply a MAGA man, who at the very least doesn't want Joe Biden to be reelected and perhaps even wants Donald Trump back in The White House, where all their MAGA conspiracy theories and avenues to financially profit for them, would open up.

This whole speculation of RFK JR. running for President in the Libertarian Party, is why I believe he's a bigger threat to Donald Trump than President Biden. But he can't run interference for DJT, unless he at the very least is on all the swing state ballots in November." 

From The New Democrat 

"Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has confirmed that among his potential vice-presidential prospects is New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who in private conversations shared deranged conspiracy theories about the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting not being real.

CNN knows of two people with whom Rodgers has enthusiastically shared these stories, including with Pamela Brown, one of the journalists writing this piece.

Brown was covering the Kentucky Derby for CNN in 2013 when she was introduced to Rodgers, then with the Green Bay Packers, at a post-Derby party. Hearing that she was a journalist with CNN, Rodgers immediately began attacking the news media for covering up important stories. Rodgers brought up the tragic killing of 20 children and 6 adults by a gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary School, claiming it was actually a government inside job and the media was intentionally ignoring it.

When Brown questioned him on the evidence to show this very real shooting was staged, Rodgers began sharing various theories that have been disproven numerous times. Such conspiracy theories were also later at the center of lawsuits brought by victims’ families when they sued conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on the matter.

Jones baselessly repeating lies that the 2012 mass shooting was staged, and that the families and first responders were “crisis actors,” spawned multiple lawsuits and a trial was held in 2022 over lawsuits that were filed in Connecticut.

Family members throughout that trial described in poignant terms how the lies had prompted unrelenting harassment against them and compounded the emotional agony of losing their loved ones.

Brown recalls Rodgers asking her if she thought it was off that there were men in black in the woods by the school, falsely claiming those men were actually government operatives. Brown found the encounter disturbing.

CNN has spoken to another person with a similar story. This person, to whom CNN has granted anonymity so as to avoid harassment, recalled that several years ago, Rodgers claimed, “Sandy Hook never happened…All those children never existed. They were all actors.”

When asked about the grieving parents, the source recalled Rodgers saying, “They’re all making it up. They’re all actors.”

Rodgers went on to delve into some of the darker caverns of the false conspiracy theory. This person found the encounter disturbing.

On Thursday, Rodgers did not deny the comments he made to Brown or the other source, but said on X, “As I’m on the record saying in the past, what happened in Sandy Hook was an absolute tragedy. I am not and have never been of the opinion that the events did not take place. Again, I hope that we learn from this and other tragedies to identify the signs that will allow us to prevent unnecessary loss of life. My thoughts and prayers continue to remain with the families affected along with the entire Sandy Hook community.” 

From CNN

When I first saw this story, my first reaction is how the hell did Aaron Rodgers ever even get into California Berkeley, let alone graduate from there. I know Cal Berkeley is home to radicals, along with the rest of the City of Berkeley, and the entire San Francisco area for that matter. But those folks are left-wing, hippie radicals, who in some cases still think it's 1968 or 69, and they're still trying to take down the man. Because they're so high, they're simply lost in space and perhaps not just mentally. 

What Aaron Rodgers and Robert Kennedy JR. represent, are MAGA radicals. People who think that every school shooting, is an inside job by the deep state or something. Or as Mr. Rodgers put it: "All those kids who died we're just acting." He would be perfect for RFK JR. for the simple fact that they think alike. (And calling that thinking is very generous) As well as having no qualifications to even serve as a baggage handler for the Vice President of the United States, let alone actually being Vice President of the United States. 

I already made my point about RFK JR., but he represents the Donald Trump voters who are still in love with Donald Trump, but simply believe that Donald Trump can't get elected again because he''ll either lose, or Democrats will still steal the election. MAGA voters are not what you would call Ivy League graduates. To them, the Ivy League is just a football division or something. But these voters want an alternative to Donald Trump, because they don't think Trump will beat Joe Biden in November.