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Rep. Phil Roe Welcomed Radical Right-Wing Conspiracy Theorist Chris McDonald to Capitol Hill

Chris McDonald is a radical right-wing commentator whose nightly "The MC Files" program is a hotbed of outrageous(link is external) conspiracy(link is external) theories(link is external). Today, McDonald was on Capitol Hill(link is external), meeting with(link is external) Republican Rep. Phil Roe of Tennessee.

Roe has(link is external) made(link is external) multiple(link is external) appearances(link is external) on McDonald’s program in the last year, and reportedly invited McDonald to visit him in his D.C. office today.

In the past, McDonald has used his program to assert(link is external) that opposing President Donald Trump is to oppose God himself, declare(link is external) that Hillary Clinton "has made a covenant with the evil one," and claim(link is external) that Barack Obama uses coded "pedophile talk."

https://vimeo.com/314808205

Baselessly accusing people of being pedophiles is something of a specialty for McDonald, who has repeatedly(link is external) smeared(link is external) actor Tom Hanks(link is external) with the allegation. He has done the same(link is external) to Rep. Adam Schiff, asserting(link is external) that the Democratic lawmaker is a "high-ranking Satanist" who practices human sacrifice.

https://vimeo.com/368538145

McDonald has said that Rep. Ilhan Omar should be charged with treason(link is external) and removed from Congress(link is external) because she could potentially be a suicide bomber, has repeatedly blamed mass shootings on the Illuminati(link is external) and Freemasons(link is external), and asserted(link is external) that God killed Rep. Elijah Cummings for opposing Trump.

https://vimeo.com/367045551

Just last week, McDonald said(link is external) that Democrats and members of the Obama administration need to be publicly executed for treason and "swing from nooses" in order to send a message to the nation. Today, he was on Capitol Hill as a guest(link is external) of a Republican member of Congress.