#2957: Wolfgang Halbig

One of the craziest conspiracy theorists and most despicable pieces of garbage currently in operation in the US, Wolfgang Halbig is primarily famous for his relentless promotion of Sandy Hook conspiracy theories, for his harassment of parents of victims of the massacre, and for his contributions to Infowars on the topic. He was finally arrested in 2020 and charged with unlawful possession of the personal ID of one of the fathers he had tormented and for releasing the father’s social security number “to hundreds of people via email” to enable and encourage other deranged conspiracy theorist to harass the families of the victims as well.

 

According to Halbig, the Sandy Hook massacre was a government-perpetrated hoax to give authorities an excuse to take away Americans’ right to bear firearms (how exactly that was supposed to work is unclear in light of the aftermaths of earler mass shootings) employing crisis actors as purported victims. And in the wake of the event, he quickly became a leader of the ragtag mass of insane clowns pushing ludicrous conspiracy theories through his website. In particular, Halbig had a set of 16 questions that he claimed that the authorities could not answer and that he therefore argued proved that the event was staged. Of course, answers to his questions, like why paramedics and EMTs weren’t allowed to enter the school (they were) and why victims weren’t transported by helicopter (because the few wounded individuals could be more effectively transported by ambulance and the rest of the victims were dead), were readily available e.g. in the Connecticut State Police report on the shooting, but Halbig and his followers claimed that those answers were fictions because after all people who commit such hoaxes can’t be trusted. So it goes. The website also touted Halbig’s “credentials” as a former security director for schools in Seminole County, a position from which he claimed to have worked on the official investigation into the mass shooting at Columbine High School in 1999 (a claim for which there is not a shred of evidence), something helped him solicit tens of thousands of dollars to his GoFundMe account.

 

Of course, Alex Jones presented Halbig as a “leading expert” on Sandy Hook on his show. Indeed, Halbig was largely responsible for concocting the Sandy Hook conspiracies that was pushed by Alex Jones, and he was thus, unintentionally, instrumental in Jones’s downfall. That, of course, does not mitigate our assessment of him as pollution incarnate.

 

In 2019, Halbig’s efforts paid some dividends when he was approached by the National Rifle Association – specifically NRA training coordinator Mark Richardson – to help sow doubt about the Parkland shooting.

 

Diagnosis: A disgusting piece of filth and a disgrace to humanity, Halbig has turned being evil and being a moron into his retirement hobby; the nasty clowns and groups of trash morons that follow him presumably provide him with the attention and feeling of doing something meaningful that this otherwise pitiful abomination presumably feels he needs and deserves. And keep in mind that the NRA is even worse rot than Halbig since they don’t even have the lunacy card to play.