Recommendations of the Editorial team
Lee Zeldin, head of the EPA environmental protection authority, tried to take a narrow ridge on Thursday. On the one hand, to appease conspiracy theorists and to refute misinformation on the other. Unfortunately, he left many people in the unclear about the actual politics and the actions of the authority.
Between clarification and confusion
“The Americans have questions about geoengineering and condensed strips,” Zeldin wrote about X. “You expect honesty and transparency from your government if you are looking for answers. For years, people who asked questions were ignored or even disparaged by the media and their own government. That ends today.”
For some, this sounded as if Zeldin believes unfounded claims about “chemtrails” – a misleading term for strips of condensation, the white steam flags, which can sometimes be seen in the sky behind aircraft. The “questions”, which he referred to, are very likely to suspect the widespread suspicion that these cloud lines indicate a form of climateanipulation (“geoengineering”) or the mass spraying of biological or chemical substances (hence “chemtrails”).
However, this never corresponds to reality, but many Americans have believed in decades that condensed strips are proof of a dark plot with which they are sprayed with unknown poisons. The conspiracy theory is so popular and durable that eight state states have enacted laws that are supposed to ban chemtrails-although not explicitly under this name. Florida banned “Geoengineering and activities for weather manipulation” last month. MP Marjorie Taylor Greene, known as conspiracy theory -affin, tries to promote a similar law in the congress.
What Zeldin actually announced was the start of an EPA website with information material for refuting misunderstandings about condensed strips. Among other things, the new government side explains that “chemtrails” are a term that some people are incorrectly used to say that condensed strips through routine air traffic actually represent the deliberate release of dangerous chemical or organic resources- for example for population or thought control or for geoengineering or for weather manipulation.
Facts against myths
In addition, it says: “The Federal Government is not aware of any case in which a strip of condensation has been deliberately formed over the United States for the purpose of geoengineering or change of weather.”
A separate page on the subject of geoengineering states that “the US government does not carry out any outdoor tests with solar-related geoengineering” and also does not operate a “large-scale implementation of such technologies”.
However, the reactions to Zeldin’s comments and the shared EPA reports were flooded by verified conspiracy theorists on X. Which continued to spread their usual false information. A resident of Florida posted a photo of condensed strips. And complained that he still saw her despite the new law of his state. Other rights of false reports on the supposedly artificial causes of the fatal floods in Texas this month.
Greene-who belongs to those MAGA supporters who incorrectly attributed these floods to weather-changing substances in the atmosphere-did not seem to notice that Zeldin’s information contradicted their statements. “Thank you, Secretary Zeldin!” She wrote on X. Zeldin is only head of the authorities and not an official cabinet secretary. The MP then used the moment for another appeal for their law, which is intended to change the “injection, release or distribution of chemicals or substances in the atmosphere with the express goal of changing weather, temperature, climate or solar intensity.
Misinterpretations from your own warehouse
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s Minister of Health and Confessing Chemtrail Consciousness theorist, also reacted to Zeldin’s contribution as if the EPA boss had confirmed his views. Although these were clearly refuted in the published EPA reports. “I am so proud of my friend Lee Zeldin and President Donald Trump for her commitment, finally the silence cartel of the deep state in relation to the devilish mass poisoning of our people, our communities, our waterways and farms and our purple mountain trains,” wrote Kennedy on X.
At least one democrat, MP Don Beyer from Virginia, criticized Zeldin for the fact that the EPA deals with conspiracy theorists at all. “Some people have ‘questions’ on whether birds are real. Will that be your next project?” He wrote to X. “How much tax money will you spend on this?”
If Trump officials were to be realized that chemtrails are real or that certain elites are directly involved in Epstein’s crimes, they would have to act
Zeldin is not the only Trump confidante who tries to invalidate disinformation from the Maga camp. Many right -wing influencers reacted angrily when the FBI and the Ministry of Justice said this week in a memo that there was no evidence that the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was murdered. Or that he used a “customer list” for blackmail. Attorney General Pam Bondi, who had previously indicated sensational revelations in the case, was particularly heavily attacked. FBI director Kash Patel and his deputy Dan Bongino, who also promised spectacular revelations, are now also under pressure. Trump supporters call for charges against Epstein’s alleged fellow wishes.
But this is simply normal policy if you get power with a wave of lies. And then you have to determine that it does not work as soon as you go to go. If Trump officials admitted that chemtrails are real or that certain elites are directly involved in Epstein’s crimes, they would have to act. And that is difficult if the “ES” is simply invented.