Laura Ingraham defends conspiracy theorists spreading misinformation about Baltimore bridge collapse
Ingraham: Conspiracy theories “grow and fester in situations where either the facts are hard to square with reality or where those in charge themselves have proven to be not credible”
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Citation From the March 26, 2024, edition of Fox News' The Ingraham Angle
LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): Why is it that so many Americans following this collapse believe that the Biden team isn't telling us the whole truth? Axios today bemoaning the situation writing that "misinformation runs rampant after Baltimore bridge collapse." Theories about whether hostile actors were involved, questions about economic terrorism and even wilder speculation I won't go into tonight -- But these ideas don't spring out of nowhere. They grow and they fester in situations where either the facts are hard to square with reality or where those in charge themselves have proven to be not credible. It's all about trust.
Even Axios had to concede that "social media companies continue to be haunted by their handling of the Hunter Biden laptop controversy and the COVID-19 lab leak theory, which contributed to widespread distrust among conservatives."
Of course -- we've got to say this -- there are obviously extremely dedicated people who work in all these agencies that are helping try to solve the situation there. But when trust is repeatedly broken, it shouldn't surprise anyone that during a crisis, our leaders' explanations and assurances, as much as we want them, sometimes don't carry much weight.
Now, here's the problem: It's not X or Twitter's fault. It's not Elon Musk. It's not the conservatives they have to placate here. The problem is that we have a D.C. establishment that has been wrong or misleading on issue after issue. Remember: They dismissed renowned experts not just on COVID's origins, the lab leak theory or Hunter's laptop, but on the virus' legality, on masks, on whether school closures were necessary and then the Biden administration flipped off concerns about that Chinese balloon.