![]() Lift the Veil, which has almost 63,000 subscribers, features videos about how the moon landing is rigged, the iPhone 7 can control your mind, and a handful of recent clips linking Macaulay Culkin to Pizzagate and now Donutgate (alternately spelled Doughnutgate). Whelan even threw in a connection to Comet Ping Pong, the pizza shop at the center of Pizzagate, saying some employees of the pizzeria were at the Voodoo Doughnut party. In a video published August 4 (which has since been removed), a man named Michael Whelan explained on the conspiracy YouTube channel Lift the Veil that he recently attended an event at Shannon’s home, where he witnessed partygoers abusing children. I’d love to do a Donald Trump doughnut with flames and devil eyes, but I don’t want to alienate an entire group of people.” As to why Voodoo didn’t make a Donald Trump donut, Shannon said: “Trump supporters like doughnuts, too. During the 2016 election, the shop featured donuts of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, and Voodoo owner Tres Shannon even delivered a box to Sanders’s campaign staff during their stop in Portland. Voodoo Doughnut is not without mild political affiliation. Lines wrap around its two buildings in Portland, the blaring pink brick becoming something of an Instagram playground for visitors. There are now multiple locations, including shops in Denver and L.A., and the store’s once grungy look has transformed into a more calculated take on the aesthetic. Voodoo went from something of a punk twist on a bakery to a tourist trap. The original shop is located in Portland’s gritty Old Town, a bright-pink bastion amid gray buildings and grayer skies. Instead of cutesy cakes with pink frosting and sprinkles, Voodoo has menu items like the “cock ’n balls” and the “maple blazer blunt.” Much of Voodoo’s branding is dripping in double entendres: Its motto is “the magic is in the hole” its boxes bear the quip “good things come in pink boxes.” The trendy doughnut shop opened in 2003 as a distinctly different sort of bakery. Now, Voodoo Doughnut finds itself in an eerily similar position. The unraveling of the so-called Pizzagate conspiracy theories led one believer to bring a gun to the pizza shop in December 2016. In 2016, the internet watched in first confusion and then horror as a D.C.-area pizza shop became the target of a rumor regarding child abuse. Before diving in, it’s important to note that this is a familiar story. As internet-fueled rumors increasingly do, it all began with a YouTube video. Online conspiracy theorists alleged that the bakery is at the center of a child sex-trafficking ring. Last week, iconic Portland bakery Voodoo Doughnut was the subject of a devastating rumor. ![]()
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