Jimmy Kimmel offers Aaron Rodgers his own conspiracy theory

Jimmy Kimmel shut down Aaron Rodgers with his own wild conspiracy theory on Thursday night afterthe New York Jets player was accused of spreading lies about the Sandy Hook school shooting.

“What the deep state won’t tell you is that Aaron Rodgers never played football, he’s not a football player, he faked his entire career,” Mr Kimmel quipped.

“Fact, first time he played in an NFL game was last year — the week before his first game with the Jets — Aaron’s body double, the guy who played every single game for him before this, died of COVID and they had nobody dumb looking enough to fill in,” he added.

Mr Kimmel’s comments on his show on Thursday night came after Mr Rodgers was accused of pushing conspiracy theories about the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting where a gunman murdered 26 young students and staff.

The allegations came following reports thatindependent presidential candidate and anti-vaxxer Robert F Kennedy Jr is considering Mr Rodgers as his vice-presidential pick.

A CNN report alleged that the Jets quarterback told CNN journalist Pamela Brown that the shooting was a government inside job and that the media was intentionally ignoring this.

Jimmy Kimmel shut down Aaron Rodgers with his own wild conspiracy theory on Thursday night

He also allegedly asked Ms Brown if she thought it was off that there were men in black in the woods by the school, falsely claiming those men were government operatives, according to the report.

CNN also cited a second anonymous source who said that Mr Rodgers claimed several years ago that “Sandy Hook never happened”.

“All those children never existed. They were all actors,” he allegedly said.

Following the report, Mr Rodgers denied that he has ever been of the opinion that the shooting did