New York Jets star quarterback Aaron Rodgers has become notorious for his affinity for conspiracy theories. And while most of them are relatively harmless, it seems like he did spread a pretty horrible and disgusting conspiracy theory that was actually just a disgusting lie.
According to a CNN report from Jake Tapper on The Lead, Aaron Rodgers once berated a CNN reporter for “covering up important stories,” claiming that the Sandy Hook shooting that killed 26 people never happened and was actually just a government inside job.
“In 2013, when CNN’s Pamela Brown was covering the Kentucky Derby, she was introduced to Rodgers. Hearing that she was a journalist for CNN, Rodgers began attacking the news media for ‘covering up important stories,'” Tapper said. “Rodgers then brought up the Sandy Hook shooting and said the news media was intentionally ignoring that the shooting wasn’t real – that it was a government inside job.”
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“I remind you that the shooting was very real, very tragic. 20 children and six adults were murdered that day,” Tapper said. “When Pamela Brown asked Aaron Rodgers for evidence of what he was talking about, Rodgers then began sharing various theories that have been disproven numerous times by evidence
“Rodgers falsely claimed that there were men in black in the woods by the school, and he asked if he thought that was odd,” Tapper said. “Brown said she found the entire encounter disturbing.”
Obviously, this is a horrible, disgusting and disturbing lie for Rodgers to believe and to share.
