The president has long enjoyed tossing up outlandish theories and watching his supporters run with them. Now he's weaponizing the practice for the toughest fight of his presidency.
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In recent weeks, President Donald Trump has incorrectly claimed whistleblower rules were changed immediately before the whistleblower filed his or her complaint! 'Everything becomes a conspiracy theory': Trump leans into ...www.politico.com /news/2019/10/15/trump- conspiracy ...'Everything becomes a conspiracy theory': Trump leans into spurious claims for impeachment defense The president has long enjoyed tossing up outlandish theories and watching his supporters run with...!! He's resurrected the myth that Democrats planted a spy inside his 2016 presidential campaign! 'Everything becomes a conspiracy theory': Trump leans into ...nzenews.com/2019/10/15/ ...'Everything becomes a conspiracy theory': Trump leans into spurious claims for impeachment defense - Nze News "I just think he keeps up the game," a former senior administration official said. "It is much easier to have a conspiracy theory than have to deal with the facts. He and facts have a severe dislike for each other.!! And he's promulgated the idea that the whistleblower is a partisan operative and part of the "deep state" of federal government employees out to get him. (The whistleblower reportedly is an intelligence officer, who Trump's acting director of national intelligence has said "acted in good faith.")
Data, evidence and repeated assurances from Trump's own national security leaders do not appear to influence Trump as he searches for ways to undermine Democrats' impeachment proceedings and the presidential bid of a leading rival, former Vice President Joe Biden.
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How far-right conspiracy theories informed Trump's Ukraine call - The Washington Post
Access to the highest levels of intelligence in the world can't seem to deter the president of the United States from depending on unreliable right-wing sources to inform his decisions in high office.
"I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it. I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine, they say Crowdstrike … I guess you have one of your wealthy people … The server, they say Ukraine has it," Trump told Zelensky, according to the memo.
Trump appears to seek evidence from Ukraine based on a theory holding that there exists a CrowdStrike or DNC server that may contain or lack contents that would prove that the 2016 DNC hack was a hoax created by the Democrats to delegitimize Trump's defeat of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election! "Everything becomes a conspiracy theory" - Hot Air hotair.com ...everything - becomes - conspiracy -theory "Everything becomes a conspiracy theory" "Everything becomes a conspiracy theory" In recent weeks, President Donald Trump has incorrectly claimed whistleblower rules were changed immediately before the whistleblower filed his or her complaint. He's resurrected the myth that Democrats planted a spy inside his 2016 presidential campaign.!! Trump was clearly referring to this abstract conception of a single server that is not, in fact, missing, and yet it is one of his frequently expressed obsessions as president and effectively opened an avenue for conservative media to rehash theories about the election! The Real Conspiracy: Conspiring to Cast Everything as a ...www.zerohedge.com ...20/real- ...cast- everything ...The Real Conspiracy : Conspiring to Cast Everything as a Conspiracy Theory. Some people commenting are the manipulators, and others are just exhausted by the overload of negativity. Keep that in mind and continue fighting for freedom. More of their manipulations are being revealed daily. The truth will come to light.!! In reality, the DNC decommissioned "more than 140 servers" and had to "rebuild at least 11 servers" to secure itself after it was hacked, according to a lawsuit filed by the DNC last year.
How YouTube led me down a wormhole of neo-Nazi conspiracy theories
This is one of 28 crowd-sourced stories from people who claim their use of YouTube backfired, gathered by search engine Mozilla this week.
All of them argue the same thing: YouTube's algorithm is still broken and it causes users to fall down disturbing wormholes.
Conspiracy theories go mainstream inside the GOP
WASHINGTON — Eight years ago, a vocal minority of Republicans peddled the conspiracy theory that Barack Obama wasn't born in the United States.
Now that the lead proponent of that debunked idea is the president of the United States and the head of the Republican Party, conspiracy theories have now gone mainstream inside the GOP.
The latest example: Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., appearing to argue on "Meet the Press" yesterday that the real interference in the 2016 election was from Ukraine.
"And so what President Trump's had to endure, a false accusation — by the way, you've got John Brennan on -— you oughta ask Director Brennan what did Peter Strzok mean when he texted Lisa Page on December 15th, 2016?" Johnson said.
He added, "What he wants is he wants to — an accounting of what happened in 2016. Who set him up? Did things spring from Ukraine?"
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Trump's Conspiracy Theories Got Him Into This - The Atlantic
But dig into the academic research on conspiracy theories, and you realize how odd the current environment actually is. Until Trump, scholars assumed that holding the White House inoculated parties from conspiracism! memeorandum: 'Everything becomes a conspiracy theory ...Nancy Cook / Politico: ' Everything becomes a conspiracy theory': Trump leans into spurious claims for impeachment defense Check out Mini-memeorandum for simple mobiles or memeorandum Mobile for modern smartphones.!! They viewed conspiratorial thinking as a weapon of the weak, which couldn't seriously threaten the republic because its adherents wielded so little influence in government.
That's what makes today's GOP so unusual and so dangerous. Never before in modern American history has a political party been this paranoid and this powerful at the same time.
The real danger isn't the Republican Party's fantasies themselves. It's the realities that Trump and the GOP can use those fantasies to create.
Marianne Williamson entertained 9/11 conspiracy theories in 2012 interview - CNNPolitics
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