Trumpsters Claim Dead Cows Are Proof of a Nefarious Plot to Starve Americans

RARE FORM

Sure, the week the cows died temperatures topped 104 degrees in Kansas and ranchers said the heat killed them. But that didn’t stop these Trump fans from making other reasons up.

Politics Reporter

Published Jun. 24 2022 10:40PM EDT

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Republicans have seized on the deaths of thousands of cattle in a Kansas heat wave as the latest proof of a baseless conspiracy theory that saboteurs ranging from the mega-wealthy to the government are out to destroy the national food supply.

That hoax has been circulating

Will Sommer

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Trumpsters Claim Dead Cows Are Proof of a Nefarious Plot to Starve Americans

Sure, the week the cows died temperatures topped 104 degrees in Kansas and ranchers said the heat killed them. But that didn’t stop these Trump fans from making other reasons up.

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