They are conspiracies until they aren’t. With more and more information about the COVID pandemic being released, former Minnesota Congressman Jason Lewis joined Liz Collin on her podcast to talk about his new feature film project, “State of Deception.”
Lewis, who represented Minnesota’s Second District in Congress from 2017 to 2019, said the film aims to provide much-needed perspective about COVID-era scandals in the style of “House of Cards meets The Manchurian Candidate.”
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While the project has been in the works for some time, Lewis said he is reassured given all of the information that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released last week on her last day on the job.
“I spoke with Tulsi about this a couple of years back, and she was very concerned then,” Lewis said.
By releasing the declassified information, Lewis said Gabbard did “a wonderful, wonderful thing for America in trying to uncover what is going to turn out to be one of the great scandals, one of the great conspiracies, of which, by the way, a lot of people’s lives are still impacted by.”
“What we experimented with is, quite frankly, martial law in Minnesota. And we’ve still yet to get all the information on how we fast tracked this vaccine. It was classified as experimental, and why somehow it was needed for everyone, including the young and the healthy. So you’ve got all of these things coming together,” Lewis explained.
“This is how I got on State of Deception. If you put this in a story and then you realize all the things that are coming out are proving this grand conspiracy, people wouldn’t believe it … so this is really something that I think is going to go down, quite frankly, as sort of the beginning of the end for my home state of Minnesota,” he added.
In addition to the information he’s been gathering, Lewis shared some of his own experiences with Collin.
“If you look at the George Floyd riots … and then right on top of that, COVID. When I was running for the U.S. Senate, we were locked down, our campaign, we had to sue Walz, but yet rioters were given carte blanche, even according to an epidemiologist who wrote a letter saying, well, the social justice is more important than social distancing,” Lewis said.
He also pointed out how people could “go out and riot, but I couldn’t hold a rally in Bemidji or any place else. It was insane. And it was a public health issue being politicized for very much partisan gain.”
However, Lewis said the bigger issue is “how many people it hurt, and we’ve just really haven’t even begun to uncover that.”
More connections between Minnesota and COVID?
Along with the declassified documents released by Gabbard, emails from the University of Minnesota have also been divulged. These include emails sent to U of M virologist Dr. Fang Li. A lab under Dr. Li “served as a hub for collaborations between U.S. and Chinese coronavirus researchers in the years before the COVID-19 pandemic,” according to U.S Right to Know.
The emails indicate that back in 2018, Wuhan scientists apparently wanted antibodies to be carried to China by hand, though Li rejected the idea.
“You’ve got all of these academic institutions, all of these nonprofits who are knee deep into the deep state. And that should come as a surprise to no one,” Lewis said. “They’re trying to bury this thing as deep as they possibly can. But the internet may finally be living up to its promise and it’s not going to be buried.”
‘State of Deception’ taking shape
Lewis also spoke with Collin about how similar things were going on during his time representing Minnesotans in the United States Congress.
“When I was in Congress—this was when the Russian hysteria was going on … if you don’t back Ukraine and wear the flag lapel pins, you somehow are involved with Putin,” Lewis said.
“I actually went over to the Intelligence Committee in the Capitol Visitor Center once to see the evidence on Russian collusion. It was a joke. I can’t reveal what it was, obviously, but it was a joke,” he added.
“”I thought OK, if they can do this, what the heck else do we not know? Or, what else are they trying to do narrative-wise? Then COVID comes along,” he said.
Lewis explained how he reached out to the media to get to the facts but was dismissed.
“I wrote an op-ed for the Pioneer Press and I called it the Chinese virus. They said, well, we really don’t want to print ‘Chinese virus,’ It’s unfair to China. This is the mass hysteria that was going on,” he said.
Lewis also spoke about how this related to voting: “You know what [Secretary of State] Steve Simon did in his handiwork, he got a bunch of people to sue him under the pretext of COVID voting rules. So all of a sudden we’re going from under 10% mail-in ballots to over 60% mail-in ballots in my race.
“Again, that’s nothing compared to what we did to children and old people in this who have still not recovered,” Lewis said.
He also spoke on how his upcoming film “State of Deception” deals with politics and culture.
“You know, politics is downstream of culture. And if you want to change politics, you gotta change the culture,” Lewis said in explaining how it led him to ask a key question: “Why don’t we create our own feature film, historical fiction, about really what we went through and what might have happened had we not caught it?”
A GiveSendGo has been set up for donors to contribute to the film.
Liz Collin
Liz Collin is a multi-Emmy-Award-winning investigative reporter, news anchor, and producer who cares about Minnesota. She is the producer of The Fall of Minneapolis and Minnesota v We the People documentary films, and author of the Amazon best-selling book, They’re Lying: The Media, the Left, and The Death of George Floyd. Her work has prompted important state laws. Yet perhaps most of all, Liz has been giving a voice to the truth—and helping others tell their stories—for more than 20 years.
Dr. JC Chaix
Dr. JC Chaix is an editor, educator, and an expert in media studies. He wrote and directed the Alpha News documentary "The Fall of Minneapolis" and "Minnesota v We the People."
