Inside the ‘shadow reality world’ promoting the lie that the presidential election was stolen
"Kevin McCarthy looks pitiful — and scared — running from Jan. 6 investigators"
Wealthy allies of former president Donald Trump have spent millions on films, rallies and other efforts to tout falsehoods about the 2020 vote.
Supporters of former president Donald Trump attend a June 12 rally in New Richmond, Wis., where MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell and other speakers excoriated the integrity of the 2020 election. (Jenn Ackerman for The Washington Post)
By Rosalind S. Helderman, Emma Brown, Tom Hamburger and Josh Dawsey
June 24, 2021 at 10:46 a.m. EDT
The slickly produced movie trailer, set to ominous music, cuts from scenes of the 2020 election to clips of allies of former president Donald Trump describing a vast conspiracy to steal the White House.
“The Deep Rig,” a film financed by former Overstock.com chief executive Patrick Byrne for $750,000, is set to be released online this weekend — the latest production by a loosely affiliated network of figures who have harnessed right-wing media outlets, podcasts and the social media platform Telegram to promote the falsehood that the 2020 election was rigged.