Fiona O’Leary, an Eire-based activist who has autistic kids and has spent years attempting to spotlight the dangers of toxic bleach solution being sold as an autism cure, 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 kids for a few years,” O’Leary, who has tracked Kalcker’s actions carefully, tells WIRED. “Kalcker will not be a health care provider. His protocol for autism entails poisoning autistic kids with chlorine dioxide, bleach. Autistic kids are pressured to drink this poison all day lengthy and compelled to endure burning bleach enemas. It’s baby abuse.”
Kalcker didn’t reply to a request for remark.
Tickets for the two-day convention, which is happening following a charity golf occasion additionally organized by Ward, vary from $50 tickets for primary entry to $2,300 VIP visitors that embrace lodging on the lodge 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 properly linked in Trump world: His earlier visitors 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 visitors will journey from overseas to attend. Between 900 and 1,000 individuals might 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] might be there,” including that they’d not be making that public on account of safety issues.
Leigh Dundas, a California legal professional who turned a outstanding pusher of Covid-19 conspiracies earlier than attending the January 6 attack on the Capitol, might 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, referred to as the Patriot Streetfighter, can be slated to talk. He streams on Rumble and, along with selling QAnon conspiracy theories, has inserted himself into local school board debates about mask 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 kids and drink their blood.
In 2023, McKay was banned from talking at one other conspiracy-filled convention at Trump’s Doral resort after media stories revealed his antisemitic feedback. That occasion was one in all 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 family.
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