Report were shared almost exclusively by Hillary Clinton supporters during the 2016 presidential election. The Palmer Report received five million unique visits per month over the course of 2017. Some of the Palmer Report's most widely shared stories include the conspiracy theory that then-House Speaker Paul Ryan and Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell funneled "Russian money" to Trump and that Robert Mueller planned on arresting Donald Trump Jr. for "treason." 2016–2017 After Trump was announced as the winner of the election, the Palmer Report published two articles claiming that the election was "rigged" and falsely claimed 5,000 Trump votes in Wisconsin were disqualified. During a recount in Waukesha County, a fake news story from the Palmer Report spread online, alleging that election officials were double-counting votes for Trump. The source of the story was an unverified Facebook post. Election officials dismissed the story, and the Wisconsin Elections Commission found no evidence for the allegations. The story was shared close to 40,000 times on social media. Statistician Andrew Gelman compared the Palmer Reports claims of election rigging to claims made in the National Enquirer, and wrote that "the basis for these accusations is more perceived unfairness than actual statistics". In January 2017, the Palmer Report claimed that Trump posed for a fake speechwriting photograph at an auction house receptionist's desk and included an Instagram photo of the receptionist. Snopes found that the photo in question had been taken at Mar-a-Lago and posted in December 2015 and that the receptionist was not an auction house employee. During the 2017 Syria missile strikes ordered by Trump, the Palmer Report suggested, without evidence, that Trump spared the runways of the Shayrat airfield due to Russian collusion. MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell echoed a Palmer Report conspiracy theory that Syria's chemical weapon attack was orchestrated by the Russian government in order to allow Trump to appear distant from Putin. The story contained no evidence. In April 2017, the Palmer Report falsely claimed that the FBI had intelligence that Russia was blackmailing Republican Representative Jason Chaffetz. The evidence for the claim came from a tweet from Louise Mensch, who, in turn, cited unnamed sources. Snopes found no evidence for this claim. Ned Price, former special assistant to Obama, promoted the false claim on Twitter. The Palmer Report also wrote a story claiming that Trump paid $10million to Chaffetz, which was later shared by constitutional law professor Laurence