An anonymously written July 26 WorldNetDaily article rehashed an interview increasingly extreme Christian conservative radio host Eric Metaxas did with sleazy political dirty trickster Roger Stone, who’s currently flaunting his self-proclaimed conversion to Christianity in right-wing circles. WND also gave space to Stone to push a conspiracy theory:
Stone was indicted Jan. 24, 2019, by a federal grand jury for obstruction, false statements and witness tampering in the special counsel investigation by Robert Mueller probing alleged Trump campaign collusion with Russia. Mueller found no such collusion. And he couldn’t find evidence of the claim that Stone collaborated with Wikileaks to release emails damaging to Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
The next morning, at 6 a.m., 29 heavily armed FBI agents in 17 armored vehicles arrived at Stone’s home, with a helicopter overhead and frogmen jumping off boats in the canal in his back yard.
CNN “just happened” to be on hand to record it all.
[…]The 73-year-old woman [Stone’s wife], who has rheumatoid arthritis, was then “frog-marched out in the middle of the street in her nightgown and bare feet.”
She wasn’t charged with any crime, Stone noted, but apparently “it was important that CNN got great footage of all that.”
Stone’s implication is that CNN was tipped off to his arrest, possibly by Mueller or his investigators, to make Stone look bad in the media. This conspiracy theory is so pervasive in right-wing media that even CNSNews.com has embraced it. CNN has denied being tipped, pointing out that the investigation left public clues about what could happen, and Mueller has denied tipping off anybody.
Things like this, David Kupelian, are why people accurately portray WND as the home of conspiracy theorists.