Reports indicate intrepid reporter and truth-teller Baxter Dimitri from the always reliable legitimate news website YourNewsWire was kidnapped today by Russian Deep State Aliens on direct orders from the Vatican. According to these reports Pope Francis has ordered a secret cabal of big pharma supporting doctors to make sure Dimitri is injected with a mind control vaccine to stop him from exposing the truth about his ties with Vladimir Putin.
Pictured: our reporter explaining the secret plan he uncovered.
Although we can't show you these reports because they are secret we can assure you the don't consist of copy-pasted quotes from tabloid articles that we added sensationalized headlines to.
Yeah, no, that didn't really happen as you probably guessed by now.
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