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class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-body field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Ann Vandersteel, a <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/ann-vandersteel-uses-death-of-bre-payton-to-push-for-trumps-border-wall/">right-wing</a> <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/ann-vandersteel-80-percent-of-government-leaders-are-involved-in-pedophilia/">conspiracy theorist</a> who <a href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/ann-vandersteel-qanon-is-part-of-the-trump-campaigns-comprehensive-media-strategy-to-spread-conspiracy-theories/">bragged</a> about being spokesperson for President Trump鈥檚 2020 re-election campaign until she was unceremoniously <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/team-trump-finally-disavows-pizzagate-theorist-who-boasted-of-being-on-2020-board">disavowed</a> by the campaign, appeared on Bill Mitchell's "YourVoice America" program on <a href="https://youtu.be/Mcd_Qtsbhzo">Friday night</a>, where she asserted that the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/16/asia/christchurch-new-zealand-mosque-shooting-latest/index.html">racist massacre</a> of dozens of Muslim worshippers in New Zealand last week was a left-wing "false flag," which is a conspiracy theory that is <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2019/03/15/rush-limbaugh-suggests-new-zealand-shootings-might-be-false-flag-attack-committed-leftist-smear/223154">gaining traction</a> on the right. </p> <p>Vandersteel <a href="https://youtu.be/zQjUzxDk_Fc">said</a> that the shooter's actions "were that of a white supremacist, and if you consider white supremacy and the KKK have its roots in the Democrat Party, this clearly is a leftist tactic." </p> <p>She then cited the fact that former Clinton campaign manager John Podesta had <a href="https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/03/2020-new-zealand-election-a-juicy-target-for-major-hack-john-podesta.html">recently warned</a> that New Zealand's elections were a "juicy target" for possible Russian or Chinese interference, which she thought was suspicious. </p> <p>"Hmmmm, more projection," she said. "You have him down there, you have a false flag event like this; is it they're trying to take away all gun rights in New Zealand? What are they trying to do?" </p> <p>"It's always the same bad actors that seem to coalesce around these horrible events," Vandersteel concluded. </p> <p>https://vimeo.com/324978773</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-related-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">On the Watchlist</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item"><div class="node node--type-person node--view-mode-teaser ds-1col clearfix"> <a href="/rightwingwatch/people/ann-vandersteel" class="field-group-link" hreflang="en"> <div class="group-left"> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"><div> <div class="field field--name-field-media-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/square_small/public/images/watchlist-default.jpg.webp?itok=Z8RAl2Tw" width="230" height="230" alt="Shadowy figure" class="image-style-square-small" /> 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