Fiona O’Leary, an Eire-based activist who has autistic youngsters and has spent years attempting to focus on the risks of poisonous bleach answer being offered as an autism treatment, worries that the Miami convention will “platform” Kalcker and permit him to extend his affect within the US.
“Andreas Kalcker has been giving bleach to autistic youngsters for a few years,” O’Leary, who has tracked Kalcker’s actions carefully, tells WIRED. “Kalcker isn’t a physician. His protocol for autism includes poisoning autistic youngsters with chlorine dioxide, bleach. Autistic youngsters are compelled to drink this poison all day lengthy and compelled to undergo burning bleach enemas. It’s little one abuse.”
Kalcker didn’t reply to a request for remark.
Tickets for the two-day convention, which is going down following a charity golf occasion additionally organized by Ward, vary from $50 tickets for fundamental entry to $2,300 VIP friends that embody lodging on the resort and entry to the audio system.
Ward, who claims to have been to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort on quite a lot of events, rose to prominence on-line in 2020 for spreading Covid-19 and QAnon conspiracy theories on YouTube earlier than his account was banned. Now, Ward primarily livestreams on the choice video platform Rumble, the place he’s a verified consumer and has over 200,000 subscribers. He’s very effectively linked in Trump world: His earlier friends on the present have included Flynn, former Trump adviser Roger Stone, and Trump’s present nominee for FBI director, Kash Patel.
Stuart Leary, the convention’s director, instructed WIRED that almost all of attendees are from the US, however as much as one third of friends will journey from overseas to attend. Between 900 and 1,000 individuals will likely be attending the convention, Leary says.
When requested if Eric Trump can be talking alongside his spouse, Lara Trump, Leary instructed WIRED he didn’t know. Nonetheless in a dialog with O’Leary, the activist, a recording of which was shared with WIRED, Leary says he has “heard unofficially that two [members of the Trump family] will likely be there,” including that they’d not be making that public attributable to safety issues.
Leigh Dundas, a California legal professional who turned a distinguished pusher of Covid-19 conspiracies earlier than attending the January 6 assault on the Capitol, will likely be in attendance, as will Sherri Tenpenny, an anti-vaxxer who shot to fame when she claimed the Covid vaccine makes you magnetic. Tenpenny additionally claims vaccines trigger autism.
Scott McKay, generally known as the Patriot Streetfighter, can also be slated to talk. He streams on Rumble and, along with selling QAnon conspiracy theories, has inserted himself into native faculty board debates about masks mandates. McKay has pushed wildly antisemitic conspiracy theories prior to now, together with claims that Jewish individuals orchestrated the September 11, 2001, terrorist assaults in addition to the assassinations of presidents Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, and William McKinley. He routinely pushes the centuries-old declare that Jewish individuals torture youngsters and drink their blood.
In 2023, McKay was banned from talking at one other conspiracy-filled convention at Trump’s Doral resort after media studies revealed his antisemitic feedback. That occasion was certainly one of dozens of stops on the ReAwaken America tour, a touring conspiracy circus organized by Flynn and crammed with Christian nationalists, election deniers, conspiracy theorists, and quite a few members of Trump’s circle of relatives.
