Saturday’s anti-mosque rally in Colorado Springs ended early so folks could attend a candidate town hall event featuring U.S. Rep. Jeff Crank (R-CO) and Rep. Scott Bottoms (R-CO Springs). Bottoms, a pastor for the Church at Briargate, has a long history of making incendiary, sensational claims that resonate with folks concerned about the demonic elements of public school curriculum, the globalist plot to make everyone eat insects, and sharia law. During last weekend’s event, Bottoms claimed he had inside knowledge of active pedophile rings within Colorado’s government.
“Pedophilia runs through our House, our Senate, and our governor’s office,” he told the credulous audience at the Parkway Tavern. “I’ve been working with the FBI for three years now, FBI outside the state of Colorado, because I do not trust CBI, state police or FBI in the State of Colorado, and I have very legitimate reasons why I know that, and I believe that. So I’ve been working with FBI in two other states because we are going to drop the boom the moment that I’m governor. We’ve actually been talking about maybe doing it before, but the moment I’m governor, we’re going to shut down the pedophile rings that are in the House, in the Senate, and in the governor’s office. We know where these people are, we know who the people are, and it’s going to happen.”
The FBI, as a matter of policy, will neither confirm nor deny active investigations, so there is no way of independently verifying Bottoms’ sensational claims, though he did appear on Ryan Schuiling Live on Monday to walk back some of his claims.
“I have some evidence, and here’s what it is — And it was tenuous, very very weak light evidence, right,” he admitted. “I began the process of trying to figure out — and I’m not trying to throw people under the bus here, but this has to be part of the conversation — I have gone to so many groups that work within human trafficking that work within this pedophilic stuff that have claimed for years and years, ‘Oh, we’re gonna we’re gonna get rid of this stuff.’ Where we fight against this, This is where our major influence is. And so I call it and say, ‘Hey, I need some help here.’ And I haven’t given all the evidence, but here’s a little bit of a teaser of evidence, and I know what I’m talking about, and I cannot get one. This is for three years. I cannot get one group to help me with evidence that they realize is pretty good. Now I have had a couple of groups say, ‘Well, if you’ll give us $100,000 we’ll help you.”…