That sort of thing happens all the time, though. It doesn't matter what the issue is, it happens. Hitler had a lot of Germans convinced that the Poles started World War II, for example, (by attacking a German border post and radio station...Ha!), plus numerous other highly unlikely notions.

Senator McCarthy had a lot of people convinced the US government was full of communists.

Some people are just competent propagandists who know they are spreading disinformation, while others actually believe the disinformation even as they are saying it...no matter how unlikely or bizarre it is.

I wonder which it was in her case?

- LH