Many different right-wing accounts on-line in contrast Biden’s resignation to the Capitol riots on January 6, 2021. “For anybody who nonetheless believes January sixth was a coup, take notes. You simply witnessed an actual one. July twenty first,” the far-right troll account End Wokeness wrote in a publish on X that has been considered 1.5 million instances.
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. added to the conspiracies, claiming with out proof that the choice to place Vice President Harris as Biden’s probably alternative was rigged. “Many Individuals worry that the identical DNC elites are about to rig the nominating course of once more to get a monumentally unpopular vice chairman to step into President Biden’s footwear,” Kennedy wrote on X.
GOP consultant Marjorie Taylor Greene from Georgia went even additional, claiming the coup towards Biden was orchestrated by the “deep state,” a widely known trope from conspiratorial actions like QAnon.
“There’s a comfortable civil conflict occurring within the deep state and the elites in energy,” Inexperienced wrote on X. “The Democrats, the IC [intelligence community], and their activists within the media have been mendacity to us saying there’s nothing incorrect with Biden for years. Subsequent, they begin a coup towards him demanding he drop out of the race once they couldn’t conceal it anymore.”
Different conspiracy theories additionally sprang up, together with baseless claims that Biden had been paid to drop out, was pressured to signal his assertion by the “deep state,” and that his withdrawal was a part of efforts to cowl up who was behind the assassination attempt on Trump.
On Reality Social, Trump fueled these conspiracies, claiming with out proof, “Biden by no means had Covid. He’s a menace to Democracy!”
In additional than half a dozen indignant posts on Reality Social, Trump railed towards having to restart his marketing campaign towards a special opponent. Reporting over the previous month has proven that Trump’s marketing campaign staff has been completely targeted on beating Biden and are likely not as prepared to fight Harris or different Democratic opponents.
Donald Trump Jr. additionally pushed conspiracies round Biden’s withdrawal. “This morning, Joe Biden was operating based on his marketing campaign co-chair,” he wrote on X on Sunday night, in a publish that has been considered 1 million instances. “What did they bribe Joe with or extra probably what did they threaten him with that he would change his thoughts in a number of brief hours and simply stroll away?”
Greene additionally claimed that Biden and his household had been bribed to withdraw from the race: “The Biden’s [sic] will need to have gotten the value they demanded for the presidential library that can pay your entire household for years to come back.”
This was an accusation additionally repeated by Consultant Claudia Tenney from New York, who’s cochair of the Election Integrity Caucus. “Biden’s resignation from the ticket probably occurred attributable to an inside deal from Democrat puppet masters to the Biden crime household,” Tenney wrote on X. “Biden and his household have benefited financially from Biden’s numerous political jobs for over 50 years. Watch Hunter and Biden get away with every thing within the subsequent a number of months. Watch Jill and Jim proceed the grift.”
