{"id":1667133,"date":"2026-03-02T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T21:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1667133"},"modified":"2026-03-02T16:20:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T21:20:00","slug":"rep-ted-lieu-spreads-bizarre-conspiracy-in-congressional-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/rep-ted-lieu-spreads-bizarre-conspiracy-in-congressional-hearing\/1667133\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Ted Lieu Spreads Bizarre Conspiracy In Congressional Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rep. Ted Lieu Spreads Bizarre Conspiracy In Congressional Hearing<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Jonathan Turley,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Years ago, Rep. Ted Lieu (D., Cal.) demanded that \u201cFacebook should do more internally to regulate fake news and point out fake news.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

This week, he finally made his case for such private censorship. Lieu went full conspiracy theorist during a congressional hearing this week, leaving many gobsmacked.<\/strong> Lieu\u2019s rave about the alleged murder of a child made the National Inquirer look like the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.<\/p>\n

In an age of rage, Lieu knows that you must go louder and bigger to be heard above the mob. Facts are no pass\u00e9 and Lieu is known for sensational claims like claiming that \u201cTrump is broke<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

At a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Epstein files, Lieu won the race to the bottom with his colleagues in making outrageous, unsupported claims.<\/strong> It was a moment reminiscent of the\u00a0recent face-planting by Rep. Ro Khanna<\/a>\u00a0(D., Cal.) in disclosing the names of powerful men shielded by the Administration in the scandal. (Four had no connection to Epstein).<\/p>\n

He suggested that Trump not only abused a minor, but that she was later bumped off to keep her from speaking.<\/strong> What Lieu does not inform the public is that his blockbuster disclosure was based on the unverified account of an anonymous man, who worked as a limo driver in 1995.<\/p>\n

The bizarre account claimed the driver picked up Trump and overheard him on the phone with someone called \u201cJeffrey\u201d and made references to \u201cabusing some girl.\u201d The driver said that he wanted to pull over and \u201churt him\u201d.<\/p>\n

Driver Dan Ferree has self-identified as the source referenced by Lieu.<\/p>\n

Ferree\u00a0reportedly<\/a>\u00a0has posted hundreds of politically anti-Trump and extreme memes to his\u00a0Facebook account<\/a>, including a recent image of Trump in what appears to be a casket. He has also reportedly claimed that he was stalked by Trump associates.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a defamation case, Ferree would be difficult to pass off as a credible source for a publication. The use of such sources is a familiar tactic in Washington. During the Chandra Levy scandal, politicians and pundits piled on Rep. Gary Condit (D., Cal.) as the presumptive murderer of the congressional intern. The source cited by Vanity Fair\u2019s Dominick Dunne turned out to be\u00a0a \u201chorse whisperer\u201d in Dubai<\/a>\u00a0who said that he had heard Condit arranged for her murder. (Condit was later cleared in the case).<\/p>\n

Ferree is only marginally better than a horse whisperer as a source of Lieu. <\/strong>Ferree told the FBI that he met a young girl who told him she had been raped by Trump and Epstein at a \u201cfancy hotel.\u201d He claimed that the young girl was later found with her head \u201cblown off.\u201d He said that, while the officers at the scene thought it was murder, the coroner later ruled it a suicide. There was no proof of such a case.<\/p>\n

It appears that Lieu knew or suspected that the source of the allegation was unhinged or unreliable because he later re-posted only two of the three pages of the statement to the FBI. <\/strong>The third page included other bizarre claims about the Oklahoma City Bombing and a drunk Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n

Lieu decided it was best to withhold the third page and the details of a raving, drunken Hillary Clinton and an effort to frame an innocent man for the Oklahoma bombing. It seems that he was not aggrieved that the FBI did not investigate that part of Ferree\u2019s allegations.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, at an earlier event, Lieu declared:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy are Republicans so interested in Bill and Hillary Clinton? It\u2019s because they\u2019re trying to distract from the fact that Donald Trump is in the Epstein files thousands and thousands of times. In those files, there\u2019s highly disturbing allegations of Donald Trump raping children, of Donald Trump threatening to kill children.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

What is striking is how so many politicians supporting the crackdown on disinformation on the right are purveyors of such disinformation. From the Russian conspiracy hoax to the flogging of migrants by Border agents, members and the media have regularly spread false accounts with impunity. It is not considered disinformation if it appears on BlueSky or MS NOW.<\/p>\n

The intentional omission of the third page of the allegation puts this disinformation effort in a particularly menacing light. This was not some hair-triggered posting that failed to research the underlying story. This was a knowing effort to later re-post the sensational allegation while removing a third of the document that undermined the credibility of the source.<\/p>\n

Indeed, while questioning why the FBI (including during the Biden Administration) failed to pursue this allegation, Lieu left out the part indicating that the source was utterly unreliable.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As an impeachment manager, Lieu\u00a0condemned<\/a>\u00a0Trump over his \u201cexhortations [and] the President\u2019s sustained disinformation. We\u2019ve seen a president stoking fears amidst these crises.\u201d He demanded that Trump be removed from office based on that allegation of disinformation and inflammatory rhetoric.<\/p>\n

Lieu knew that in our post-truth political environment, it really does not matter if an allegation is untrue. <\/strong>He is feeding a rage addiction among voters who ache for a steady stream of such outrageous claims. He is part of a trend that I have called the \u201cnew Jacobins\u201d in\u00a0Rage and the Republic<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>establishment figures who are pandering to the mob in seeking to ride the wave of rage back into power.<\/p>\n

It was not long ago that Democrats and the media tore into members suggesting that the Clintons were involved in the suicide of key aide Vince Foster. The difference is that there was an actual body in that base. Lieu shows little concern over spreading a conspiracy theory based on an unestablished death raised by a driver who coupled his allegations with other wild claims about Hillary Clinton and the Oklahoma bombing.<\/p>\n

It has long been accepted that \u201cpolitics ain\u2019t beanbag,\u201d but Lieu shows that it is now simply bonkers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jonathan Turley is a law professor and the author of the New York Times bestselling \u201cRage and the Republic<\/a>: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nMon, 03\/02\/2026 – 11:20<\/span><\/p>\n

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