At least he made all his billionaire backers a lot of extra money from all of this.

I think either Asimov or A.E. van Vogt wrote a short story with this premise already back in the late 1940s.

That’s not it. The right will lie about anything. If we change our beliefs to prevent the right from lying about us we would never have to stop changing our beliefs.

This is more about right wing militias hunting lqtb+ people under the guise of pedophilia.