So the excuse for all the alt-right CT is that Trump and other right wing nationalist leaders around the world are valiantly defending us from a left-wing conspiracy.
Meanwhile...
Trump is urging his supporters to turn to One America News Network as his romance with Fox News sours
www.theguardian.com
The network has also ceaselessly spread disinformation about the Covid-19 pandemic. In March 2019, OANN White House correspondent Chanel Rion fronted a special broadcast in which she asserted that the virus had been deliberately synthesized as a bioweapon in a North Carolina laboratory. She relied on a source whom she called a “monitored source amongst a certain set in the DC intelligence community”, but whose public profile mainly consists promulgating wild conspiracy theories on social media.
By May, Kristian Rouz – who was then working for OANN
and the Kremlin-owned Sputnik radio news service – ran a package on the network asserting a
wholly different conspiracy theory: that the virus was being employed in a “globalist conspiracy” involving George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and the Chinese Communist party to institute global population control.
To the extent that these outlandish falsehoods were taken seriously by the OANN audience, they worked to deflect blame from Trump for the mismanagement of the pandemic.