Fiona O’Leary, an Eire-based activist who has autistic kids and has spent years attempting to focus on the risks of poisonous bleach resolution being bought as an autism remedy, 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 just isn’t 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 little one 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 embody lodging on the resort and entry to the audio system.
Ward, who claims to have been to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort on various 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 person and has over 200,000 subscribers. He’s very nicely 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 folks can be attending the convention, Leary says.
When requested if Eric Trump could be talking alongside his spouse, Lara Trump, Leary instructed WIRED he didn’t know. Nevertheless 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] can be there,” including that they might not be making that public attributable to safety considerations.
Leigh Dundas, a California legal professional who grew to become a outstanding pusher of Covid-19 conspiracies earlier than attending the January 6 assault on the Capitol, can 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 native college board debates about masks mandates. McKay has pushed wildly antisemitic conspiracy theories previously, together with claims that Jewish folks 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 folks 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 reviews revealed his antisemitic feedback. That occasion was one in every of dozens of stops on the ReAwaken America tour, a touring conspiracy circus organized by Flynn and stuffed with Christian nationalists, election deniers, conspiracy theorists, and quite a few members of Trump’s circle of relatives.
