Aaron Rodgers has shared false Sandy Hook conspiracy theories (CNN)

[Warfish]

RFK Jr.’s VP prospect Aaron Rodgers has shared false Sandy Hook conspiracy theories in private conversations

By Pamela Brown and Jake Tapper, CNN

 2 minute read 

Updated 6:42 PM EDT, Wed March 13, 2024

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has confirmed that among his potential vice-presidential prospects is New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who in private conversations shared deranged conspiracy theories about the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting not being real.

CNN knows of two people with whom Rodgers has enthusiastically shared these stories, including with Pamela Brown, one of the journalists writing this piece.

Brown was covering the Kentucky Derby for CNN in 2013 when she was introduced to Rodgers, then with the Green Bay Packers, at a post-Derby party. Hearing that she was a journalist with CNN, Rodgers immediately began attacking the news media for covering up important stories. Rodgers brought up the tragic killing of 20 children and 6 adults by a gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary School, claiming it was actually a government inside job and the media was intentionally ignoring it.

When Brown questioned him on the evidence to show this very real shooting was staged, Rodgers began sharing various theories that have been disproven numerous times. Such conspiracy theories were also later at the center of lawsuits brought by victims’ families when they sued conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on the matter.

Jones baselessly repeating lies that the 2012 mass shooting was staged, and that the families and first responders were “crisis actors,” spawned multiple lawsuits and a trial was held in 2022 over lawsuits that were filed in Connecticut.

Family members throughout that trial described in poignant terms how the lies had prompted unrelenting harassment against them and compounded the emotional agony of losing their loved ones.

Brown recalls Rodgers asking her if she thought it was off that there were men in black in the woods by the school, falsely claiming those men were actually government operatives. Brown found the encounter disturbing.

Rodgers, through one of his agents, declined to comment to CNN.

CNN has spoken to another person with a similar story. This person, to whom CNN has granted anonymity so as to avoid harassment, recalled that several years ago, Rodgers claimed, “Sandy Hook never happened…All those children never existed. They were all actors.”

When asked about the grieving parents, the source recalled Rodgers saying, “They’re all making it up. They’re all actors.”

Rodgers went on to delve into some of the darker caverns of the false conspiracy theory. This person found the encounter disturbing.

Kennedy’s campaign announced Wednesday that the candidate will name his running mate on March 26 in Oakland, California. Kennedy told CNN in an interview on Tuesday that he had recently met with Rodgers, as well as former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura, about the possibility of joining his campaign.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/13/politics/aaron-rodgers-sandy-hook-conspiracy-theories/index.html

 

[The Voice of Reason]

enough already twitter and national media dug up a story 10+ years ago... He is a conspiracy theorist... Who cares... The obsession of hatred is unreal... 

[greenwichjetfan]

If he doesn’t come out and vehemently deny this, then I take back all of the love and admiration I’ve ever had and repeatedly shared on here for Aaron Rodgers. **** him and anyone else that would spread this bullsh*t.

[KRL]

Stop sharing this crap!!!  Get back to FOOTBALL and stop making this place toxic

[Warfish]

@The Crusher or @Sperm Edwards or @slats can one of you merge this with the "Aaron Rodgers VP" thread, I didn't realize this story was already being covered in there.  My bad.  Thanks!

[TuscanyTile2]

 

[greenwichjetfan]

Just now, KRL said:

Stop sharing this crap!!!  Get back to FOOTBALL and stop making this place toxic

Says the guy who littered his camp reports with non football toxicity for years. This is about the starting QB of the team. It is about football.

[The Voice of Reason]

Just now, greenwichjetfan said:

If he doesn’t come out and vehemently deny this, then I take back all of the love and admiration I’ve ever had and repeatedly shared on here for Aaron Rodgers. **** him and anyone else that would spread this bullsh*t.

Why does his opinion outside of football matter to so many people... That is the insanity... Not that he believed some info wars junk... 

There are people in the NBA that believe the earth is flat and don't get nearly the hatred this man gets

[jetsons]

communist network news … the msm version of pff … BOTH HOT GARBAGE 🤮🤮🤮

[Wit]

Honestly; he was sucked in by Alex jones and that’s why Alex has been throughly banned. I don’t agree with silencing people but this is the result.


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[The Voice of Reason]

Just now, TuscanyTile2 said:

 

So what... Who cares 🤷🏼

[Ghost]

This will be locked by 11:00. 

[Pac]

This thread was already locked hours ago. 

[Greg555]

If this is true..it sickens me. Grew up near Sandy Hook in Ct, have family members living near by.  The moment I heard the horrible news still is so vivid in my mind.  
You have to be such a narcissist to believe in these far-flung conspiracy theories.  
Yuch

 

[JTJet]

3 minutes ago, TuscanyTile2 said:

 

The amount of facepalms users on this board should be doing right now is epic. 

Mother ****ers on here would believe that Aaron Rodgers ****ed Natalie Portman and Stone Cold Steve Austin in a 3 way in the back of a waffle house while on acid after a night of passing out info Wars flyers. 

ESPECIALLY if I told them I heard it from some dude on reddit one time. 

[Warfish]

5 minutes ago, KRL said:

Stop sharing this crap!!!  Get back to FOOTBALL and stop making this place toxic

It's a top-line story in the national news media about our starting QB.  A starting QB who may, in fact, also be a VP candidate (lol).

I'm sorry if it's existence makes you uncomfortable, or criticism of his views makes you angry, or if you think it's "toxic" to share what is being reported about him. 

Next time, I suggest you can just skip the thread if you're not interested in it's content.  

No one is ever forced at gunpoint to open or read threads here.

[Jet_Engine1]

This thread was started with the same exact article and became a toxic cesspool and was closed immediately. 

 

Honestly, I love Ya Fish, but reposting an already closed, verboten thread should earn a ban. 

 

Does nothing good for this board, and their are PLENTY of more appropriate forums to screech about this, one side or the other.

 

 

[The Voice of Reason]

2 minutes ago, Warfish said:

It's a top-line story in the national news media about our starting QB.  A starting QB who may, in fact, also be a VP candidate (lol).

I'm sorry if it's existence makes you uncomfortable, or criticism of his views makes you angry, or if you think it's "toxic" to share what is being reported about him. 

Next time, I suggest you can just skip the thread if you're not interested in it's content.  

No one is ever forced at gunpoint to open or read threads here.

You are such a drama queen.. 

[TuscanyTile2]

9 minutes ago, The Voice of Reason said:

So what... Who cares 🤷🏼

Tbh, I agree completely.

[Warfish]

Just now, Jet_Engine1 said:

This thread was started with the same exact article and became a toxic cesspool and was closed immediately. 

Honestly, I love Ya Fish, but reposting an already closed, verboten thread should earn a ban. 

Had no idea, didn't see the thread then. I'm not actually here 24/7, lol.

If Max wants to ban me, or (as KRL seem to want) to more broadly ban any posting of non-football stories about Aaron Rodgers (something we never did when it was Mike "Dogkiller" Vick, as another example), it's his site, he can ban me or ban any posts like this. 

I post purely at Max's pleasure here.  

[Grandy]

Opinion: Keeping politics out of football is very hard when the most important player on our team finds himself constantly involved in them because he's a nutty attention seeker. Also, is this even political?

[Warfish]

4 minutes ago, The Voice of Reason said:

You are such a drama queen.. 

Only drama queens I see are the ones loudly demanding a safe space from national news about our QB.

You control what content you read.  People post twitter/X takes/reporting here all the time, including off-field stuff.  We've had endless off-field posts about, for example, Tom Brady over the years.

Take a little personal responsibility if the very idea of reading news about Rodgers upsets you so.

[Rangers9]

Actually Pamela Brown is a reliable reporter and she tells this as a personal story what he said to her in private. 

[Mogglez]

To be honest, Aaron has brought this on himself.

The views that @TuscanyTile2 shared could still be his present day views, but he’s chosen to willingly let the RFK Jr. story go on long enough for the political enemies of Kennedy do their work on anyone that chooses to align themselves with him.  The political game is not like the gridiron and he’s going to come back from his vacation to that harsh realization.

Maybe save all of this for after your playing career, yeah?

[T0mShane]

1. This feels like an oppo research bomb released by someone with an interest in subverting Rodgers’ chances of being Kennedy’s VP, or to drag down Kennedy himself if, indeed, Rodgers is already his guy. 
 

2. That said, it’s easy enough to wriggle out of if Rodgers deigns to address a second-hand, reheated CNN report. 
 

3. Unreal that the Jets haven’t issued a statement either through Rodgers or for Rodgers, because it’s a pretty serious charge. Cimini should get someone on background at least deflecting the story. Possible that the Jets silence on the Kennedy and Sandy Hook matters is because they already know Rodgers is gone, so **** him. 
 

4. Rodgers needs to forcefully deny this report and not get cute trying to skirt around it by blaming the evil media again. Easy enough to deny that you’ve ever popped off about Sandy Hook being a false flag, even if you did. If Rodgers wants to be obstreperous about it, it becomes Saleh’s problem and Saleh is going to drown.
 

5. That said, Rodgers very, very likely believes that Sandy Hook was a false flag. He clearly lives in those dark parts of internet.  

[Grandy]

3 minutes ago, Warfish said:

Only drama queens I see are the ones loudly demanding a safe space from national news about our QB.

You control what content you read.  People post twitter/X takes/reporting here all the time, including off-field stuff.  We've had endless off-field posts about, for example, Tom Brady over the years.

Take a little personal responsibility if the very idea of reading news about Rodgers upsets you so.

I agree with this. Also this isn't even political. Sandy Hook is a tragedy, that literally happened. It's a heavier topic, but it's still off-field stuff that is relevant to our QB.

[greenwichjetfan]

14 minutes ago, The Voice of Reason said:

Why does his opinion outside of football matter to so many people... That is the insanity... Not that he believed some info wars junk... 

There are people in the NBA that believe the earth is flat and don't get nearly the hatred this man gets

Believing the earth is flat is entirely different from spreading lies and misinformation about an event as hallow and devastating as Sandy Hook. Parents of dead children were receiving threats and having to deal with their children being called crisis actors and whores in the aftermath of the Alex Jones sh*t. That someone as popular as Aaron Rodgers is giving that stuff legitimacy is dangerous.

If you didn’t know any of that and hadn’t thought through it, then now you know. Go look it up. If you already knew all of that and just think it’s a difference of opinion akin to us disagreeing about Zach Wilson….well…that’s really very bad.

[Mogglez]

27 minutes ago, Rangers9 said:

Actually Pamela Brown is a reliable reporter and she tells this as a personal story what he said to her in private. 

I’m not going to defend anything, but unless there’s video or an admission from Rodgers, it’s all hearsay.  One person's word against the other.  Especially when he’s on record speaking out on how abhorrent the tragedy was.  Maybe his opinion has changed since then.  Maybe it’s the same.  None of us, honestly, know because he has, willingly, decided to ignore all of this while getting high on psychedelics.

Regardless, the idea of this theory being believed by our QB is nauseating and I hope it’s not true.

[Mogglez]

2 minutes ago, T0mShane said:

1. This feels like an oppo research bomb released by someone with an interest in subverting Rodgers’ chances of being Kennedy’s VP, or to drag down Kennedy himself if, indeed, Rodgers is already his guy. 
 

2. That said, it’s easy enough to wriggle out of if Rodgers deigns to address an anonymous, reheated CNN report. 
 

3. Unreal that the Jets haven’t issued a statement either through Rodgers or for Rodgers, because it’s a pretty serious charge. Cimini should get someone on background at least deflecting the story. Possible that the Jets silence on the Kennedy and Sandy Hook matters is because they already know Rodgers is gone, so **** him. 
 

4. Rodgers needs to forcefully deny this report and not get cute trying to skirt around it by blaming the evil media again. Easy enough to deny that you’ve ever popped off about Sandy Hook being a false flag, even if you did. If Rodgers wants to be obstreperous about it, it becomes Saleh’s problem and Saleh is going to drown.
 

5. That said, Rodgers very, very likely believes that Sandy Hook was a false flag. He clearly lives in those dark parts of internet.  

Nailed it.

[TuscanyTile2]

24 minutes ago, TuscanyTile2 said:

 

What are the negative reactions for?  This post is his comments from ~10 years ago.

[RutgersJetFan]

2 minutes ago, T0mShane said:

That said, it’s easy enough to wriggle out of if Rodgers deigns to address an anonymous, reheated CNN report.

I’d say we’re about 8-12 hours away from the “Pamela Brown is doing this for money and fame” schtick. 

[Wizard C]

 

 

[T0mShane]

Just now, RutgersJetFan said:

I’d say we’re about 8-12 hours away from the “Pamela Brown is doing this for money and fame” schtick. 

100% plus.

[slimjasi]

Didn’t this get locked already? 

[Skeptable]

In before the