Washington Post Cartoonist Who Called Pizzagate a ‘Conspiracy Theory’ Arrested on Child Porn Charges

Washington Post’s long-term political cartoonist Darrin Bell has been arrested on suspicion of possessing child sexual abuse videos, including depraved AI-generated material designed for extreme pedophilic tastes.

According to Sgt. Amar Gandhi of the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children caught Bell uploading 18 files of extreme child sex abuse videos to an online platform for the deranged pleasure of other pedophiles.

The Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist previously produced cartoons mocking Pizzagate as a conspiracy theory, depicting Trump raping the Statue of Liberty, and portraying conservatives as Nazis and sexual deviants for calling leftists “groomers”.

Modernity report: Subsequent searches found at least 134 videos containing CSAM, which includes AI-generated material.

Bell’s cartoons were syndicated via the Washington Post Writers Group (WPWG) and also appeared in the New Yorker.

After news broke of his arrest, X users noted how the cartoonist had previously monstered conservatives and Trump supporters as rapists and groomers.

One such example shows a cartoon elephant exposing himself to a group of children, which Bell said was supposed to be a criticism of Republicans who “describe those who teach respect for LGBT people as groomers.”

Another cartoon compares a MAGA hat wearing Trump supporter to a Nazi for complaining about leftists being groomers.

Another example shows Donald Trump molesting the Statue of Liberty while another describes Trump as a “very old rapist.”

After winning the Pullitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 2019, Bell told ABC News, “I want [readers] to take away that we need to be more respectful of human dignity. That’s the common thread I try to weave through every cartoon that I draw — whether it’s about police brutality or immigrants being separated from their children, or whether it’s about Donald Trump. It’s a big moment of validation.”

Human dignity? Really?

Bell is set to appear in court on Friday.