Pizzagate

 "“Conspiracy theory”,  Fake news"
Pizzagate (US/VIPaedophile?,  Modified limited hangout?)  

The Comet Ping Pong on Connecticut Avenue in Chevy Chase, Washington, D.C.
Location	Comet Ping Pong
Interest of	Liz Crokin, David Seaman, Ben Swann
Interests	Stratfor
Description	Important conspiracy in the US/2016 Presidential election campaign.
Participants	Hillary Clinton, John Podesta, James Alefantis, Tony Podesta

"Pizzagate" as a term emerged with the release of John Podesta's e-mails by Wikileaks, which contained some unusual references to pizza, among other things. When the discussion reached a wider audience a number of aspects of human and child trafficking started to be discussed, like the Laura Silsby case. Pizzagate also focused on James Alefantis (owner of Comet Ping Pong) and his connection to leaders of the Democratic Party.

The commercially-controlled media focused in it's reporting on soft, "debunkable" claims, but left those aspects that were worth to be investigated and/or even reported about totally on the side.

A shooting at the restaurant a month after the election put Pizzagate in the headlines.

Official narrative

Wikipedia terms Pizzagate a "discredited and disproven" conspiracy theory that came to prominence during the 2016 United States presidential election.

The theory was then "debunked" by Snopes and the Washington, D.C. police said there is nothing to it. ISGP painted the story as "disinformation" by hinting most pushers of the story were linked to the leaders of official opposition narrative-stories such as Alex Jones.

Wikipedia writes: "In March 2016, the personal email account of John Podesta, Hillary Clinton's campaign chair, was hacked in a spear-phishing attack. WikiLeaks published his emails in November In 2016, proponents of the Pizzagate conspiracy theory falsely claimed the emails contained coded messages that connected several high-ranking Democratic Party officials and U.S. restaurants with an alleged human trafficking and child sex ring. One of the establishments allegedly involved was the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria in Washington, D.C".

Shootout

On December 4, 2016, Edgar Maddison Welch, fired three shots from an AR-15 at Comet Ping Pong. He surrendered after officers surrounded the restaurant and told police that he had planned to "self-investigate". No one was injured, Welch sentenced to four years in prison. Some think the shooting was a staged attempt to discredit public discussion, Welch himself worked as an actor before. Welch himself was reportedly shot dead during a traffic stop in early 2025.

Cover-up

After the shootout, James Alefantis was invited to the Megan Kelly show mid December 2016, after which the commercially-controlled media at large started to speak of a "debunked conspiracy".

Research

ISGP, a go-to source for deep politics, claimed the story to have little proof, calling the investigation "silly", pointing to that individuals such as Tony Podesta and Anthony Weiner already had a quite nefarious reputation for liking underage children. Most media pushing the story was linked to several previous disinformation campaigns. Noticeably, ISGP disproved the code language in Podesta's emails, where food items such as "pizza" and "hot dog" allegedly had a secret meaning.

However, the thorough ISGP article found a number of other truly bizarre connections that were not as easily dismissed. Joël van der Reijden pointed to some individuals such Marina Abramovic, Dennis Hastert and Christopher Kloman as particularly suspicious.

Most research in the US media didn't focus on them after Donald Trump won the US 2016 Election.

People and organisations accused of involvement

• Wikileaks
• James Alefantis, co-founder and owner of the pizzeria
• Carole Greenwood, co-founder of the pizzeria
• John Podesta, campaign chair
• Tony Podesta, brother of John and appreciator of fine Arts
• Hillary Clinton and her connection to Laura Silsby
• Stratfor had some suspicious e-mails
• Alex Jones, major proponent
• Edgar Maddison Welch, the shooter
• David Brock, founder of Media Matters for America
• Jeffrey Epstein, associate of the Clintons who was dead three years later
• Alt-right
• 4chan trolls
• 8chan

The Finders

The general narrative of Pizzagate, especially around localities in Washington DC, has reminded some commentators of the Finders cult (which was also based in Washington DC).

Resources

Earth-Shattering Facts That Would Turn Washington Upside Down
Pizzagate:Disinfo,Truth,New Dutroux,X-Dossiers ties Long analysis of the event by Institute for the Study of Globalisation and Covert Politics

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Guccifer	“Hillary Rodham Diane Clinton is one of the high priests, a goddess of this ocult, satanic, shadow group. One must see their evil and profoundly corrupt motive to understand what I am talking about.””	Guccifer	September 2016
Dennis Hastert	“A second genuine element of Pizzagate is the case of former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, sentenced to prison in 2016 for being a "serial child molester". Lucky for him, the statue of limitations had run out on the most important charges, resulting in only 15 months in prison. The Wikileaks releases revealed Tony Podesta acknowledging in a June 1, 2015 email to "have stayed in touch with denny Hastert [for] almost 50 years since Camp Nose." Obviously it would be interesting to know what Podesta and and others in government exactly knew about Hastert's behavior. Peculiarly, when the indictment of Hastert was announced on May 28, 2015, John Podesta's old colleague from the Clinton administration, Jake Siewert (who also served in the Obama administration under superclass Treasury secretary Timothy Geithner and then became an executive at Goldman Sachs), sent him an email of only one sentence that read: "Might be time for Denny to vanish to an undisclosed Japanese island." That's a clear reference to Camp Nose, located on Osaka island, Japan, and where Tony Podesta (without John) went to in 1965 with Denny Hastert on a "People to People Student Ambassador Program". By the time they were sent over, Podesta and Hastert were in their early 20s and were involved in the oversight of some the youths. The fact is, it's entirely possible that John or Tony Podesta already communicated to Siewert, a frequent contact of theirs, about a May 19 email to the Podestas from Masahiko Horie, an old member of Camp Nose who went there with Tony Podesta and Hastert. If not, that would be very strange coincidence and very much indicitive of Hastert's pedophile activities going back all the way to Camp Nose. But even then, why single out Nose? So most likely it's the former - there's been communication. And that doesn't exclude the latter possibility.”	Joël van der Reijden ISGP Dennis Hastert	2017
Ben Swann	“The story itself was vetted at a higher degree than any other story in the five years that I was working with them, was vetted higher than any other story. Because I chose to self-vet it through the highest levels of editorial control at our station. Which I didn't have to do and I chose to do that because of the sensitivity of the subject matter we were talking about. And so it ran through the highest levels of journalists at that entity, all the way up through news managers, who have had 30-40 years in the business, were looking at it. And when they came back and said was 'yeah this is solid, it's totally solid'. [...] And one thing that I forgot is, there was so much that we couldn't say, so much that we intentionally left out because it was so wild, we couldn't put some of it on TV.”	Ben Swann	30 January 2023

 

Known Participants

All 4 of the participants already have pages here:

Participant	Description
James Alefantis	Controversial owner of Comet Ping Pong.
Hillary Clinton	“Too big to jail”
John Podesta	US deep state operative who was White House Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton from 1998 to 2001 and Counselor to President Barack Obama from 2014 to 2015
Tony Podesta	Brother of John Podesta

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