Bulwark Takes - MAGA Conspiracies Falsely Accused a Brown University Student

Episode Date: December 20, 2025

Tim Miller takes on the MAGA conspiracies that falsely accused a Brown University student of murder. After the Brown University shooting, right-wing influencers like Laura Loomer, Benny Johnson, and even a DOJ official spread baseless accusations targeting a student. The real killer was later identified on Thursday, a 48-year-old Portuguese national with no connection to the student. Tim breaks down how MAGA media and politicians fueled this dangerous lie. Exclusive $35 off Carver Mat at https://on.auraframes.com/BULWARKTAKES. Promo Code BULWARKTAKES

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and who has his pronouns are he, they, on social media. and somehow they had identified this person as the one that they thought committed these crimes. They said that he even had shouted Al-Aul Akbar when he did the killing at Brown. It turns out this is totally wrong. Late last night, the actual perpetrator of these crimes was found. He had killed himself in New Hampshire. the suspect, Claudio Valente, is from Portugal. He gained a green card through a diversity lottery.

So, you know, obviously now the diversity lottery is going to be the thing that comes under target. But he's a 48-year-old Portuguese national. He looks not at all like the Brown University student and activist whose picture was all over the Internet this week. And I want to go through the worst offenders. because it's important to call them out because sometimes you'll see these people in your feed not realize they're right-wing grifters. So it's important to call out the perpetrators of this. They just were recklessly naming and picturing a young person that did nothing, just solely based on their bigotry towards Muslims and trans folks, essentially. Their prior is that all Muslims and trans folks

are killers. And so they found this one that goes to Brown. and decided that they wanted to make that person's life miserable, make them a target. It's just disrespectful what they did. Before I go through all these, I do want to put this in context a little bit for one reason that I think this is really important. There's this big fight happening right now on the right that we're covering here on this page between kind of the Ben Shapiro faction and the Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens faction. And like the premise of that fight is that Ben Shapiro is rightly calling out the Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens faction. about their conspiracy monger and their elevation of white nationalists, their elevation of people like Nick Fuentes who discriminate against people

based on their race or religion. And in that fight, like the conspiracies that Ben Shapiro's calling out are about, you know, things that Tucker and Candace are advancing like recklessly accusing Israel or a secret of all of Jews of doing something, that there's no evidence that they did, or conspiracies around. the Charlie Kirk killer or just kind of weird Nazi propaganda like Tucker Carlson

elevating a historian who thought Hitler was a good guy in World War II. So Ben Shapiro's calling them out in that context. But while that debate is happening, there's this whole other conspiracy targeting Palestinian activists and trans folks. And there's nobody on the right that's saying that's wrong. And that's a problem. It's a big problem. And if there's going to be a real reckoning on the Magorite about the conspiracy mongering, which I don't expect.

But if there is, then the people that are calling it out got to call it out across the board. Not just when the targets of the conspiracy are people that they have more of an affinity for. Be they Israeli political leaders or be they Charlie Kirk and his crew at Turning Point USA. Boilwork Takes is sponsored by Aura Frames. We're now getting down to the wire in holiday shopping season. Hanukkah's already started and you're getting close to that window for Christmas. That window's closing, basically. It's time to get serious with Aura Frames.

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that they had a suspect wrong suspect then a couple days go by don't know who the shooter was shooter is on the loose and that is when these posts start coming up about the student i'm going to redact the student's name in these in these screen shots because we don't want to call any additional attention to them but you originally have like laura lumer for example posting about this person she's one of the more prominent people posting about this person and um oh this let's just one of her posts right now it's been five days since the shooting at brown university and we still have no name no motive but we do know the university is frantically scrubbing the name redacted uh from their website is that

They refused to tell the public who the shooter is. I don't know why Brown took this person down from their website. Maybe they requested that the university do because they're getting so many threats and they were scared. Maybe Brown was like, this might be the best way to tamp down these conspiracies. I don't know. Maybe they mishandled that a little bit. I saw some critiques of that online. I don't think you can really judge the victim of this and the university, you know, for their choices in the middle of a crisis.

where, you know, an innocent person is getting threatened online. I think they're trying to do the best they could. But so maybe we'll learn more about why the name got taken down from the website. But again, I assume it was based out of fear or based on a request from the student. Here's where things get really dark. Anna Paulina Luna, Congresswoman, then posts. I found a very suspicious that information has been removed from Brown University's website, calling out that person. The assistant attorney general, Harmeet Dillon, posts that this is suss.

it's suss you're supposed to be one of the investigators you're in the justice department now you're not just a poster harmy dillon you can't be posting that it's that that it's suspicious that the university is taking down the name of a of a student you're drawing attention to that student you're putting a target on them from the justice department go find the actual killer and prosecute them harmy dillon that's your job fucking infuriating um a couple more lumer posts i mean again, there's like a grainy photo, the person that got released, Lumer claims this is a black hijab under the hoodie, and they say it's a masculine woman, you know, and she's trying to, again, do a trans-Muslim thing together. That's really gross. But obviously, it's not just Lumer.

Benny Johnson, who is supposedly suing Milo. We did a video on that you can go see. He's supposedly suing Milo about accusations that he's gay, but I haven't seen it. seen the lawsuit yet. We'll see if that ever comes to pass. He posts the pictures of this Palestinian activist also. Valentina Gomez says that it's a cover-up. Congressman Brandon Gill got in on this separate conspiracy theory. That was that one of the victims at Brown, rest in peace, Ella Cook, she was part of the Young Republican Club there, the College Republican Club. There's a separate conspiracy theory pushed out by Congressman Brandon Gill. Mark Kalprin is a reporter. It's been on Megan Kelly's network, they were pushing out the fact that Ella Cook was the real target of this.

And it was political violence from the left, maybe from Muslims, maybe from trans people. So it's the second congressman pushing a conspiracy theory. You know, it just continues. We can kind of put up a whole compilation here. I guess one other one I will call out is Jack Posobiac because he comes up a lot, Pizza Gate, Jack. He has a second source that he says. That the murder of Ella Cook, the college Republican, was an inside job going after her for her political beliefs. So again, that's another wrong.

So maybe you shouldn't do those sources. Matt Walsh over at Daily Wire. I heard that Ben Shapiro is against conspiracy theories, but Matt Walsh over at the Daily Wire was posted a conspiracy theory about how the Brown University shooting investigation was sabotaged. I don't know who that would be sabotaged by. The Republicans control everything. But anyway, these are just some examples. I saw that poor person, that poor student and activists name and picture all over my feeds where I monitor Maga Media this week.

And I just can't imagine being that person being falsely accused of this, having to deal with Islamophobia, having to deal with anti-trans hate. And for what? It was like a 48-year-old bald dude for Portugal that did it. So another fail from the Maga Media and to Ben Shapiro and the others who are trying to now speak out against conspiracy mongering and hate mongering inside the movement. Maybe you can spare a thought for the person that was smeared by the Daily Wire, by Benny Johnson, who's related to TPSA, by Laura Lumer, who is inside the White House,

and by the Assistant Attorney General of the United States, because they didn't deserve that, and the conspiracies go beyond just the Charlie Kirk situation. That's all I got for you. We'll be back soon. and subscribe to the feed, tell your friends. We'll see you soon.