President Obama Did not Once Spend 65,000 on Hot Dogs

Misbar’s investigation into this claim reveals it to be false. It is highly unlikely that President Obama literally purchased $65,000 worth of hot dogs and pizza for a private party at the White House, to be flown in from Chicago. But what to make of Wikileaks’ track record? This claim and others like it in The Global Intelligence Files info dump using “Pizza,” “Cheese Pizza,” “Hot Dogs” in highly unusual and lucrative contexts are often paired in the Podesta email dump with such phrases as “spirit cooking,” a satanic ritual popularized among private audiences by artist Maria Abamovic.

This connection inspired the “pizzagate” conspiracy theory, during which investigators discovered that the terms “pizza,” “cheese pizza,” “hot dog,” and others are also used in the child pornography community to communicate about their interests without explicitly using words and phrases to attract the attention of authorities. As such, the claim that potentially many members of the elite class, such as President Obama, could be pedophiles or in dealings with them, first arose. However, once again, the hard evidence for such claims —like the claim of eating $65,000 worth of hot dogs— does not exist in absence of any investigation of them.