LaRouche PAC, a far-right group that supports Donald Trump, has taken credit for trolling Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez during a town hall meeting yesterday. An operative with LaRouche made headlines overnight after standing up at AOC’s town hall in Queens yesterday and saying that humanity should eat babies, among other ridiculous things, to address the climate crisis.

Viral video from the incident shows a woman posing as a supporter of AOC and wearing a shirt that reads, “Save the Planet, Eat the Children.” Many people clearly thought she was mentally disturbed, but LaRouche PAC, a fringe organization that believes climate change is a hoax, was behind the stunt, according to the group’s Twitter account.

An extremist pro-Trump political group sent an activist ​to a town hall event hosted by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to deliver a rant about how people should eat babies to counter climate change. ​Although it was ​obvious ​that the woman ​who delivered that statement was either ​unwell or a troll, that didn’t stop right-wing media and the president of the United States ​from trying to leverage the incident to attack Ocasio-Cortez.

Claims that Democrats eat children are popular among some of the most extreme conspiracy theorists in the right-wing voter base, including those who believe in the QAnon conspiracy theory. Abortion, the conspiracy theorists will often claim, is advanced by Democrats in order to supply babies for politicians to consume. Torture and consumption of children is a central tenet of conspiracy theories like Pizzagate, and some conspiracy believers have committed violence against those they were told participate in such acts—people have been killed.

It was a hardly subtle political stunt, yet it was laundered through right-wing media to bolster claims that the woman speaking to Ocasio-Cortez represented her constituency of concerned climate activists. If we grant the people who did the laundering some benefit of doubt, perhaps they are genuinely senseless enough to take a woman advocating for eating children as a member of the progressive voter base—but it is much more likely the video provided fodder for their outrage political narratives and they simply didn’t care whether it was rational.

The clip was shared online by The Daily Wire’s Ryan Saavedra, who falsely called the planted activist one of Ocasio-Cortez’s “constituents,” as did political operative James O’Keefe. Breitbart News, Gateway Pundit, Infowars, Fox News, and a myriad of far-right and pro-Trump personalities spread the video with suggestions that the woman talking about eating babies was just another Democrat. It was picked up by the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., and shortly after that it was blasted across the nation from President Donald Trump’s Twitter account.