The lieutenant governor of Indiana believes the federal government is maliciously using airplanes to spray chemical trails into the sky that are capable of altering the weather and controlling human behavior.
Republican Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith emphatically embraced the "chemtrails" conspiracy theory Tuesday with a post on X/Twitter that applauds a seemingly nonexistent task force for stopping "the real climate criminals" on behalf of Republican President Donald Trump.
"Rogue feds have been spraying toxic sludge over our skies, manipulating weather, and endangering public health — and they're finally getting cuffed. Deep-state 'spray chiefs' thought they could poison America from 30,000 feet with zero consequences. Not anymore," Beckwith said.
Chemtrails believers erroneously contend the long lines of white clouds, known as contrails, that sometimes are visible from the ground when hot airplane engine exhaust interacts with the extremely cold air at high altitudes contain something more sinister than water vapor.
There is no factual support for the chemtrails theory and Trump's own Environmental Protection Agency says it's not aware of any deliberate actions to release chemical or biological agents from jet aircraft into the atmosphere.
Though U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently admitted on the "Dr. Phil" television program that he's a chemtrails believer.
In that vein, Beckwith said he's warning "every unelected bureaucrat who treats our air like a science-fair Petri dish" that "Indiana will NEVER tolerate geo-terrorism from Washington’s swamp labs or Bill Gates' globalist pals."
"We demand full exposure, full accountability and criminal prosecutions — because sunlight (not aluminum dust) is the best disinfectant. Keep watching the skies — and keep praying for truth to rain down harder than their chemical cocktails," Beckwith said.
The lieutenant governor's office did not identify what Beckwith is doing to find out whether anyone in Indiana government coordinated with the federal government to release chemtrails over the Hoosier State since high-altitude flying began more than a century ago.
Republican Gov. Mike Braun, who would be succeeded by Beckwith as Indiana's chief executive should the 71-year-old no longer be able to serve, did not respond to a question about whether he shares Beckwith's belief in chemtrails.
The Republican-controlled General Assembly this year declined to act on House Bill 1335 and Senate Bill 364, co-sponsored by state Sens. Dan Dernulc, R-Highland, and Mike Bohacek, R-Michiana Shores, that would have made it a misdemeanor crime to discharge a chemical in Indiana's atmosphere to intentionally affect the intensity of sunlight, temperature or weather.