thing to a mainstream thing when infowars started covering it in december. >> pizzagate or related hashtags were shared more than a million times on twitter in just five weeks. >> that's all going on and then all of a sudden -- >> soon the pizzeria owner was faced with a frightening reality. thousands of people online believed the false claims. >> they were calling me a pedophile, calling hillary clinton a pedophile, then more outrageous things, calling us satanic, thinking we had tunnels in our basement. >> welch is one of those people who believed the false claim. on december 2nd, he sends out another text, raiding a pedo ring, possibly sacrificing the lives of a few for the lives of many. two days later, welch takes off to washington, d.c.