posted ago by Michalusmichalus ago by Michalusmichalus +3 / -1

I have no idea what the hell is going on, but the sex trafficking isn't getting the attention it deserves because of manufactured drama, and being downplayed as a Qanon / Trump conspiracy.

There's tweets, there's lawsuits, even someone getting run over with a car. This conspiracy has gotten the attention of people across the country, but there doesn't seem to be any documented evidence to the claims of sex trafficking.

The women identified themselves as Kimberly Lowe, who is running for Congress in Virginia, and a person whom Kimberly referred to as “Michelle,” and identified herself as a Secret Service agent in an audio recording, but whose identity BuzzFeed News could not verify. According to an affidavit that he later prepared for police, Treviño-Wright's son, Nicholas, told the women that they needed to pay an admission fee to enter the property. Michelle, he wrote, told him that she was with the Secret Service and that both women had big sway in Washington, DC, and they wanted to see “the immigrants crossing on the rafts.”

Treviño-Wright said her son came to get her and that she googled Lowe before approaching the women. She provided BuzzFeed News with an audio recording of her interaction with Lowe and Michelle, as well as a recording of a Facebook Live video Lowe posted of the incident as it took place, which has since been deleted.

Kimberly Lowe does appear to be running for Congress in Virginia, and her fb live does seem to have been deleted. Could she have involved herself in an open case? Or did she allow herself to get pulled into manufactured drama?

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/sarahmimms/texas-butterfly-sanctuary-trump-conspiracy

https://www.kimberlylowe.com/

Here's another completely different perspective on this drama.

“The only butterflies we saw were swarming a decomposing body surrounded by tons of rotting trash left behind by illegals,” campaign leader Brian Kolfage said on Twitter that year.

Mr Kolfage also smeared the centre’s employees as “butterfly freaks” running a “sham” sanctuary, which was flooded with harassing messages on its social media pages.

He also lashed out at a local Catholic priest he baselessly accused of “promoting human trafficking and abuse of women and children.”

In December 2019, a Texas judge ordered that the project halt construction, which would cause “imminent and irreparable harm” to the 100-acre preserve.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/qanon-sex-trafficking-national-butterfly-center-b2003142.html

From the many articles that I've read the sex trafficking claim is made up by the media. Here's exactly what was said more than two years ago. If you read the link, the man that said these things pretty much says he's shit talking in response to shit talk. Yet here we are focusing on the drama rather than the serious issues such how the wall needs to be designed properly for water management safety.

In an interview with right-wing news outlet The Rundown, Kolfage smeared Snipes, a beloved figure in the border town of Mission known for his love of Lone Star beer and vocal defense of a historic chapel threatened by Trump’s wall. “[Snipes] is promoting human trafficking and abuse of women and children,” Kolfage said, referring to the priest’s criticism of border fences. “Instead of driving around in expensive boats with media he should be helping … to combat the rampant pedophilia in the church.” Since Friday, Kolfage has also tagged the butterfly center in about 30 tweets, accusing the refuge of assisting the cartels, implying it has ties to insect smuggling, and labeling the center “left wing thugs with a sham butterfly agenda.” (The center, for its part, has been lambasting Kolfage as well, sometimes including the hashtag “#LiarLiarPantsOnFire.”)

https://www.texasobserver.org/we-build-the-wall-south-texas-vilifies-priest-butterfly-refuge/