Ex-60 Minutes reporter unleashes bizarre Baltimore bridge conspiracy theory
Former Fox News and CBS reporter Lara Logan went off the rails in a segment on Steve Bannon's "War Room," concocting an elaborate conspiracy theory that the Baltimore bridge disaster was actually a cyberattack directed against the United States — and somehow tied it to theories that the 2020 presidential election was rigged.
"This is what you call death by 1,000 cuts," said Logan. "It is an absolutely catastrophic attack on critical infrastructure and you cannot see it because a cyberattack is unseen, just like the attack on 2020, on the voting machines that you cannot see."
"There's not a direction that you can look in Steve, where we have our leaders," she continued. "People in power have been systematically dismantling the defenses of the United States of America. And this attack is a wake-up call, open your eyes and realize what you are facing because they cannot afford for this election to take place.
"They cannot afford for Donald Trump to come into power and there is absolutely nothing they won't do. There was nothing, they will stop at nothing to prevent that from happening."
Logan was a reporter on CBS' 60 Minutes until 2018. She was put on a leave of absence after a story about the Benghazi attack was found to have significant factual errors. She left after her contract expired.
Logan, who has promoted the QAnon conspiracy theory, is not alone in pushing elaborate counter-narratives about why a Singaporean cargo vessel lost power and crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge. As of Tuesday night, six people were presumed dead.
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Alex Jones, the notorious InfoWars webcaster, also argued that the ship was forced into the bridge by a cyberattack, claiming the crash "looks deliberate" and could be an opening salvo in World War III.
Others on the right, like Florida state Rep. Anthony Sabatini and Utah state Rep. Phil Lyman, have suggested the disaster was a result of diversity hires, without any elaboration on the connection.
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