Trump's new spokeswoman believes Democrats rape and eat children

On Friday, Trump named his new press secretary after Karoline Leavitt, who resigned in August. The successor is named Katie Zacharia, a 41-year-old who has previously been a commentator on the conservative television channel Newsmax and also worked on Trump's social media platform Truth Social.

When she took office, many media noticed that she had cleaned up her own social media.

Among the deleted posts on X is one where she suggests that the federal state of the United States and Trump should "take over" California. And another where she falsely claims that "8 out of 10 women who have taken the covid vaccine have had a miscarriage".

Investigative journalist Judd Legum now reveals that Zacharias' conspiracy thinking goes much further than that.

He has gone through 2,696 posts she has made on Truth Social since 2022. And finds that she has long been a supporter of the so-called Pizzagate theories – the conspiracy theory that claimed prominent Democrats ran a pedophile out of a Washington D.C. pizzeria. – and the subsequent, cult-like movement Qanon.

This is the notion, completely unproven, that a coterie of devil-worshiping Democrats and Hollywood figures are secretly kidnapping children whom they then sexually exploit and in some cases kill and eat. According to the conspiracy theory, Hillary Clinton and several of her close associates must have participated in this.

On September 7, 2022, Zacharia wrote about John Podesta, who managed Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign:

"Why doesn't Fox News do a report on what a pedophile Podesta is?"

Three days earlier she wrote:

"The left-wing Hollywood elitists are sick pedophiles and cannibals. Disprove me!"

In November of the same year, she wrote about the conspiracy theorist Robert David Steele, who had just died of covid. Steele had claimed that there was a colony on Mars, where children had been sent by pedophiles.

"He exposed the pedophile ring of the elite," Zacharia wrote about the deceased.

"May he rest in peace, may his work not have been in vain".

Trump pays tribute to his new press secretary in a post on Truth Social, where he emphasizes that she is "a loyal supporter" and "Maga".

"She has the respect of the media, the American people and the administration."

Trump's own relationship with the media is not the best. Recently, he banned CNN, Politico and the MS Now television channel from the White House because he did not like their reporting.

For the past 38 days, there have been no traditional White House press conferences, except for one when Vice President JD Vance stepped into the role of press secretary. At the same time, Trump's opinion numbers have continued to drop to a low of 32 percent who have confidence in the president.