Fox News has curve ties with pro - Donald Trump media personality Diamond & Silk — who have repeatedly appeared with the president at rally and White House — after they pushed headache - have confederacy theory about the coronavirus pandemic , theDaily Beast reportedon Monday .
Diamond and Silk , whose real name are Lynette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson , have become well - known in conservative circles asoutspoken Trump supportersand areparticularly popularwith Trump himself . The two were at Trump ’s side as recently as aBlack History Monthmeeting at the White House in February 2020 . They were also in great part responsible for a thrashing of a House Judiciary Committee listening in 2018 during which they take that Facebook wascensoring themfor support Trump . ( Facebook wasnot censoring them . ) Those flimsy claim were parroted by correct wing mediaincluding Fox , so it ’s just spectacular the company has now booted Diamond and Silk from their Fox Nation streaming religious service .
fit in to the Daily Beast , Diamond and Silk have repeatedly promoted bastard conspiracy hypothesis about the virus , including that no one fuck where the bodies of theover 56,000 Americansthat have died so far are being hide out , that it might have been designed in a lab , and that the World Health Organization could have the mental ability to “ turn this computer virus on and off . ”
Lynnette “Diamond” Hardaway and Rochelle “Silk” Richardson with Donald Trump at the White House in February 2020.Photo: Nicholas Kamm (Getty Images)
“ What I need to know is how many multitude have passed away in New York , and what I need to know is : Who has the body ? ” Diamond enunciate in a March 30 livestream . “ I need for somebody that does fact-finding work to call the morgues . To call the funeral homes . We postulate to recognize , because I do n’t trust anything else that come out of his mouth now … Something ’s not aright here . Something is off here . ”
“ Is this being deliberately spread ? ” Diamond add , seamlessly transition from a theory in which someone is piss up death counts to one in which it is wreaking mayhem suspiciously fast . “ Look , I ’m not being a conspiracy theoriser , this is real , but I ’m expect my own questions . What the hell is survive on ? ”
Per the Daily Beast , during the same broadcast Silk pondered whether the virus is “ man - made ” or “ engineered , ” perhaps due to a “ minuscule deep - body politic action going on behind the scenes . ” She also floated the idea that World Health Organization may have in its willpower a putting to death “ electrical switch ” for the computer virus . ( We do , but there ’s no way Silk could know that . )
They have also pushed idle lie , put as harmless proposition , that prescribed coronavirus last count may be inflated , that a possible vaccinum is somehow tied to Microsoft laminitis Bill Gates’plans for “ population control,”and that the virusmay be causedby 5Gas part of a plan to fill “ empty ” hospital beds . Several weeks ago , Twitterremoved a tweetin which they exhort following to disobey social distancing order because the “ only way we can become immune to the surround ; we must be out in the surround , ” sum that stay indoors “ for lengthened menses will make hoi polloi sick . ”
Did Fox News bench " Diamond & Silk"?https://t.co / zp74XflHbepic.twitter.com/1tmQTSPcqB
— Oliver Darcy ( @oliverdarcy)April 25 , 2020
According to the Daily Beast , Diamond and Silk ’s Fox Nation program has been hushed since April 7 , shortly before they send out that tweet . A author at the web , clearly anticipate some variety of a pat on the back for distancing themselves from a calamity of their own making , told the site that “ After what they ’ve say and tweeted you wo n’t be seeing them on Fox Nation or Fox News anytime presently . ” Fox News and Diamond and Silk did not respond to the Daily Beast ’s requests for input , but stir a Magic 8 - Ball for further insight on whether the divorcement will be permanent .
Of course , that just means a little bit more work for everyone else at Foxchurning outanendless supplyofTrump - favorable spinon the pandemic . The president apparently believes that the company is turn soft anddirected hisTwitter followers to rather follow One America News connection , an even more fawning , far - right streaming serving that has exact National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Faucigrew the virusin a North Carolina lab and late had one of its reporter barred from White House briefing for violatingsocial distancing rule .
Not to be outstrip , Trump recentlysuggestedthatinjecting bleachmight be a curative for the virus .
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