Fiona O’Leary, an Ireland-based activist who has autistic children and has spent years trying to highlight the dangers of toxic bleach solution being sold as an autism cure, worries that the Miami conference will “platform” Kalcker and allow him to increase his influence in the US.
“Andreas Kalcker has been giving bleach to autistic children for many years,” O’Leary, who has tracked Kalcker’s activities closely, tells WIRED. “Kalcker is not a doctor. His protocol for autism involves poisoning autistic children with chlorine dioxide, bleach. Autistic children are forced to drink this poison all day long and forced to suffer burning bleach enemas. It is child abuse.”
Kalcker did not respond to a request for comment.
Tickets for the two-day conference, which is taking place following a charity golf event also organized by Ward, range from $50 tickets for basic access to $2,300 VIP guests that include accommodation at the hotel and access to the speakers.
Ward, who claims to have been to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort on a number of occasions, rose to prominence online in 2020 for spreading Covid-19 and QAnon conspiracy theories on YouTube before his account was banned. Now, Ward primarily livestreams on the alternative video platform Rumble, where he is a verified user and has over 200,000 subscribers. He is very well connected in Trump world: His previous guests on the show have included Flynn, former Trump adviser Roger Stone, and Trump’s current nominee for FBI director, Kash Patel.
Stuart Leary, the conference’s director, told WIRED that the majority of attendees are from the US, but up to one third of guests will travel from abroad to attend. Between 900 and 1,000 people will be attending the conference, Leary says.
When asked if Eric Trump would be speaking alongside his wife, Lara Trump, Leary told WIRED he didn’t know. However in a conversation with O’Leary, the activist, a recording of which was shared with WIRED, Leary says he has “heard unofficially that two [members of the Trump family] will be there,” adding that they would not be making that public due to security concerns.
Leigh Dundas, a California attorney who became a prominent pusher of Covid-19 conspiracies before attending the January 6 attack on the Capitol, will be in attendance, as will Sherri Tenpenny, an anti-vaxxer who shot to fame when she claimed the Covid vaccine makes you magnetic. Tenpenny also claims vaccines cause autism.
Scott McKay, known as the Patriot Streetfighter, is also slated to speak. He streams on Rumble and, in addition to promoting QAnon conspiracy theories, has inserted himself into local school board debates about mask mandates. McKay has pushed wildly antisemitic conspiracy theories in the past, including claims that Jewish people orchestrated the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks as well as the assassinations of presidents Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, and William McKinley. He routinely pushes the centuries-old claim that Jewish people torture children and drink their blood.
In 2023, McKay was banned from speaking at another conspiracy-filled conference at Trump’s Doral resort after media reports revealed his antisemitic comments. That event was one of dozens of stops on the ReAwaken America tour, a traveling conspiracy circus organized by Flynn and filled with Christian nationalists, election deniers, conspiracy theorists, and numerous members of Trump’s own family.
