QAnon believers and former Trump campaign officials have a new ridiculous conspiracy theory about Ru

QAnon believers and former Trump campaign officials have a new ridiculous conspiracy theory about Ruth Bader Ginsburg

CODY FENWICK, ALTERNET
01 FEB 2019 AT 01:29 ET

Conspiracy theories have proliferated on the right wing under President Donald Trump, himself a prominent promoter of fictitious and disprovable partisan myths. In recent weeks, a new and grotesque claim is gathering steam in the darker corners of the political conservatism that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is suffering from secret health problems or is even clandestinely dead.

Of course, the truth is that Ginsburg is recovering from surgery in December to remove cancerous nodes from her lungs — this isn’t a secret, and it’s been well-publicized. She has been absent from the court as she recovers, however, providing enough room for the conspiratorially minded to speculate wildly.

Last week, documentary filmmakers who worked on a movie about the justice told CNN that she “sounded strong and cheerful,” was writing opinions, and is “continuing to stay on top of work.”

But the nefarious rumors continue. Sebastian Gorka, a former White House staffer under Trump, is among the most prominent people to add fuel to the fire of the theory, tweeting a picture of Ginsburg with the word: “Still no sign. 6 days left until Ruth Bader Ginsberg has to make her official appearance at @realDonaldTrump’s State of the Union.”

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