#2840: Michele Fiore

Michele Ann Fiore is a former member of the Nevada Assembly (2012–2016), former member of the Las Vegas City Council and has since 2022 served as a justice of the peace for Nye County. In July 2024, she landed herself, not for the first time, in legal trouble for defrauding donors and was convicted for wire fraud and conspiracy in October (her troubles with the law is her only legal background and thus her only qualification for her current position). Otherwise, Fiore has gained attention for her vocal support of Trump and for Cliven Bundy, and in particular for her firm stance that “[i]f government is going to point a gun at me, I'm going to point my gun right back” and that shooting government and law officers trying to arrest you counts as “self-defense”; she was, however, quick to clarify that such actions were justified only against government officers she didn’t agree with, such as the Bureau of Land Management, which according to Fiore is “a bureaucratic agency of terrorism that terrorized Americans, especially ranchers.”

 

In fact, Fiore has a long history of wanting to shoot people, such as Syrian refugees, whom she was ready to “shoot ‘em in the head myself” – elaborating, Fiore declared that “I am not OK with Syrian refugees. I’m not OK with terrorists. I’m OK with putting them down, blacking them out. Just put a piece of brass in their ocular cavity and end their miserable life. I’m good with that” (though she later emphasized that she was talking about terrorists, that was not the topic she was responding to).

 

For the entry here, however, Fiore’s most notable delusion is her position on cancer and cancer treatments. Fiore is on record promoting the insane pseudoscience of none other than Tullio Simoncini; according to Fiore “if you have cancer, which I believe is a fungus, and we can put a pic line into your body and we’re flushing, let’s say, salt water, sodium cardonate [sic], through that line, and flushing out the fungus … These are some procedures that are not FDA-approved in America that are very inexpensive, cost-effective.” This is, needless to say, not remotely how anything works in the reality the rest of us are inhabiting. Fiore made the comment in connection with a right-to-try bill she was introducing, commenting that Nevada is already “the capital of entertainment” and that her bill and the opportunity it would open up for trying to cure cancer with salt water and baking soda could help “make it the medical capital of the world as well.”

 

The suggestion sheds some light on the reasoning behind her 2012 proposal to arm school officials and college students as a means to combat school shootings. There is a brief portrait of Michele Fiore here.

 

Diagnosis: A complete moron. A somewhat flamboyant one, to be sure – like a clown – but definitely a moron.