Two days ago, Elon Musk — owner of X (formerly Twitter) — posted a meme in support of the unhinged and widely debunked Pizzagate conspiracy. “Does seem at least a little suspicious,” he wrote in the now-deleted post. Supporters of the conspiracy, such as Anna Perez, rejoiced at Musk breathing new life into it.

On her show, Wrongthink Primetime, which is part of white nationalist broadcaster Stew Peters’ Rumble channel, Perez declared without evidence that “Pizzagate is real,” and made comments that veered into QAnon conspiracy territory.

Perez referred to Pizzagate as a “story that broke about basically our government being involved in child sex trafficking, pizza was a code word for children that they were trafficking, okay? The whole Comet Pizza situation.”

Comet Ping Pong is a D.C.-area pizza parlor that conspiracy theorists falsely claimed was being used by its owner, and high-profile Democratic politicians, as a child sex trafficking front. One claim was that children were locked in the establishment’s basement, despite it not having one.

In December 2016, a North Carolina man named Edgar Maddison Welch, convinced that he needed to rescue the children, entered the restaurant and fired his gun. Welch pleaded guilty to two charges stemming from the incident and was sentenced to four years in prison.

“It was called ‘conspiracy,’ but it turns out it’s not exactly a conspiracy, as most things that they call a conspiracy, because we know — we know — how satanic our government really is, okay?” she added.

Perez complained that Pizzagate had long been “branded conspiracy,” that “nobody has really touched it” since the height of its popularity, and that people who believed in it were seen as “crazy.”

“Well here’s the thing. Here’s the thing. Turns out Pizzagate actually happened,” she declared.

“Turns out that it likely actually happened — you have to throw in ‘likely’ right? Because a lot of journalists have been talking about that, right? Did at the time, I should say. And had debunked the debunkers. Had debunked the fact-checkers. Kinda like what we do — what we’ve been doing — with COVID.”

She then brought up Musk’s tweet in support of Pizzagate, saying that the conspiracy had been “pushed under the rug” until the billionaire started “bringing it up again.”

As evidence for Pizzagate being true, Perez referenced a Vice article about Elon Musk’s tweet. She pointed out that, years ago, Vice published a piece by Efrem Zelony-Mindell about the work of acclaimed photographer Mary Ellen Mark, who, as a Guardian obituary noted, “chronicled the plight of the dispossessed.”

A photography curator, Zelony-Mindell was arrested in December 2022 as part of a sting operation while attempting to entice a 9-year-old into illegal sexual activity. They were recently sentenced to 90 months in prison on a charge of distribution of child sexual abuse material.

As Perez told her viewers, “This is not the writer of the Elon Musk article but it’s just interesting that Vice would take it upon themselves to attack Elon Musk for exposing pedophilia — a pedophile issue — and they themselves are guilty of having hired pedophiles.”

She claimed that this is evidence that “Pizzagate is real. And the media’s involved in it. Likely Vice, okay?”

Of course, Elon Musk has done nothing to “expose” pedophilia, Zelony-Mindell’s arrest and sentencing came years after their 2016 article was published, and, in any event, does not in any way validate the Pizzagate conspiracy theory.

Undeterred, however, Perez soldiered on, claiming that “something very strange is going on” and that the “truth is coming out in the mainstream.” And at one point she came just shy of endorsing the deranged QAnon conspiracy.

Supporters believe that wealthy, satanic pedophiles — including politicians and celebrities — are preying on children, and harvesting their blood for its adrenochrome. Former President Trump, of course, was secretly working to stop this, and, in an event known as “the Storm,” would arrest the perpetrators.

Perez claimed that she was “cancelled from corporate media over the whole segment I did on, basically, Jeffrey Epstein being tied to the raid on Mar-a-Lago, and how Trump had dirt on all of these wealthy billionaires — redundant, sorry — on all of these billionaires on what they did with children.”

“That’s why Trump — I do believe — left that circle of elites and decided, in part, to run for president,” she said. “I believe that definitely counted into his decision to try to save this country — to try and help save this country.” She said that she doesn’t believe in the “storm is coming type of thing,” but that “this government is run by satanic pedophiles” whom Trump “has dirt on.”