Right-wingers blame the Baltimore bridge collapse on everything short of the Mothman
Early Tuesday morning, a section of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed into the Patapsco River after the Dali, a 213-million-pound cargo vessel, lost power and crashed into a structural pillar. As a team from the National Transportation Safety Board is gathering evidence for their investigation and crews search for six members of a construction crew that were repairing potholes on the bridge at the time of the incident — who are now presumed dead — right-wingers are slinging conspiracy theories relating to the collapse and what "really" led to it. A recent report from Mother Jones runs down the wildest of the finger-pointing, with Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo listed at the top, suggesting a “wide open” immigration policy at the border could be a factor. Brigitte Gabriel, Founder & Chairman of ACT For America, weighed-in via a post to X on Wednesday, writing, "The bridge collapse has a lot of the earmarkings of a potential terrorist attack," having placed blame on Pete Buttigieg, United States Secretary of Transportation, in an earlier post.
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