“I think Pizzagate was really effective when people, you know, when these ads against me, these really terrible, horrible, false claims about me were running all over the internet, some with Russian money for heaven’s sakes. The people who were campaigning for me, they were on the phones, they were knocking on doors, they would have voters say, You know what? I can’t vote for her because she kills people or she trafficks children or whatever they were told and that they believed.”— Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, quoted by Mediaite, on attacks during the 2016 presidential campaign that she ran a pedophile ring out of the basement of a pizza shop.