WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump has enlisted parts of the U.S. government and key allies in the pursuit of unproven or disproven conspiracy theories, some incubated in the dark and anonymous corners of the internet.
Text messages between U.S. diplomats, a whistleblower complaint and a series of public statements by Trump and other officials in recent days offer the clearest view yet of the extent to which the president has used the government to chase accusations that secret forces have been plotting against him.
Much of that evidence has surfaced because of an impeachment inquiry led by Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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- State Department envoys in Europe offered Ukraine’s president a White House visit if he promised to investigate a discredited theory suggesting Russia did not interfere in the 2016 election that put Trump in office! Explainer: How Trump used the U.S. government to chase ...-us...Text messages between U.S. diplomats, a whistleblower complaint and a series of public statements by Trump and other officials in recent days offer the clearest view yet of the extent to which the president has used the government to chase accusations that secret forces have been plotting against him.!! A whistleblower complaint by an intelligence officer suggested Trump also held back nearly $400 million in security aid to Ukraine as additional leverage, which Trump has denied doing.
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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! Explainer: How Trump used the U.S. government to chase ...www.reddit.com ...explainer _ how_trump _ used ...r/BannedFromThe_Donald: Getting Banned from /r/ The _Donald. Press J to jump to the feed. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts!! 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.
Barr's efforts to bolster Trump mean that ... reigns - The Washington
It's hard to overstate the extent to which President Trump's time in politics has been defined by conservative media broadly and Fox News specifically.
For years before his decision to seek the presidency in 2015, he was a regular, promoted guest on "Fox & Friends." His Twitter feed reflected his political views, views generally squarely in line with the Fox News orthodoxy of the moment! Flipboard: Explainer: How Trump used the U.S. government ...flipboard.com/@Reuters/ ...Donald Trump . Explainer: How Trump used the U.S. government to chase conspiracy...Reuters - Brad Heath. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump has enlisted parts of the U.S. government and key allies in the pursuit of unproven or disproven conspiracy theories, some incubated in the dark and anonymous corners of the internet.!! His campaign launch centered on the sorts of issues that were sidelined in the Republican establishment but were central to conservative media: the dangers of immigration and immigrants, an America that was falling behind.
As president, he spends hours each week in the mornings and evenings tuning in to Fox News. He and Fox News host Sean Hannity reportedly speak regularly . Through July 25 of this year, more than a third of all of the interviews he has granted as president were to Fox-parent News Corp. companies! Explainer: How Trump's Small Refinery Waivers Are ...explainer - how-trump ...Explainer : How Trump 's Small Refinery Waivers Are Undercutting Farmers Donald Trump will be in Iowa today, touring an ethanol plant in Council Bluffs, to celebrate the Environmental Protection Agency's lift of a seasonal ban on E15 , allowing for year-round sale of the gasoline mixture containing 15% ethanol.!! Eight of the nine people who have interviewed Trump most frequently work for Fox News or Fox Business Network. (The ninth works for News Corp.'s Wall Street Journal.) By that point, he had given six fewer interviews to the two Fox networks than he had to every other television network and local television station combined.
The Deep State Conspiracy Is About to Go Into Overdrive
For decades the American far right has depended on conspiracy theories to explain why the nation keeps adopting progressive policies of which they disapprove.
Sen. Joseph McCarthy famously argued in 1951 that the World War II hero Gen. George C. Marshall, who had been both Harry Truman's secretary of state and then secretary of defense, had made decisions that helped the Soviet Communists in their drive to dominate the world! Explainer News, Research and Analysis - The Conversation ...explainer -653 Trump and obstruction of justice: An explainer David Orentlicher , University of Nevada, Las Vegas Legally, a person can obstruct justice even if he committed no other crime – though it is ...!! McCarthy did not go as far as branding Marshall a traitor, but he did charge that Marshall—a great war hero who helped lead the planning of D-Day and had been Time Magazine's Man of the Year in 1943—led "a conspiracy so immense and an infamy so black as to dwarf any previous venture in the history of man."
Were old Joe McCarthy still with us he would be in awe of the lengths to which Donald Trump and his GOP and "conservative" lackeys have gone to discredit their perceived Democratic enemies. Each day Trump ups the ante by openly seeking the help of foreign governments (Russia, Ukraine and now China) to take action to destroy his main political rival in 2020, former Vice-President Joe Biden.
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Trump is pushing a baseless conspiracy about the Bidens and China. Here's what we know.
After weeks of pushing debunked conspiracies about wrongdoing by former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter in Ukraine , President Donald Trump publicly urged China Thursday to investigate unfounded allegations that the younger Biden received a "payoff."
The invitation to the Chinese government, denounced by Democrats and excoriated by two Republican senators , mirrored the private behavior on which the House is partially basing their formal impeachment inquiry — using the office of the presidency to press a foreign leader to investigate a political rival. Trump has defended his actions in recent days by saying he has a right, even a duty, to root out "corruption" around the world.
But much like the president's Ukraine conspiracy theories, the serious accusations that Trump and his allies, including personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, have leveled against the Bidens with regard to China are unsupported. All the details of Hunter Biden's business dealings aren't known, since he has always been a private citizen, but there's no evidence of wrongdoing on behalf of either Biden. Trump and his allies has yet to offer evidence of the claims, while the former vice president has said the president is the one who is corrupt.
How Trump's Conspiracy Theory Led to the Impeachment Crisis | Time
It took a complaint from an intelligence-community whistle-blower, released late last month, to reveal the weight of Trump’s Ukraine conspiracy theory and just how far the President has gone to support the notion that a vast network of enemies inside and outside his own government has been working against him. Trump has tried to mobilize the vast resources of his presidency–from Attorney General William Barr and the U.S. Justice Department to America’s national-security apparatus–and a team of investigative irregulars, led by his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani . This band of conspiracy cops has traveled the globe in a disorderly hunt for proof of the conspiracy Trump says is arrayed against him.
In the past, many of his advisers tried to redirect Trump. They urged the President to accept the consensus of U.S. intelligence agencies: the true conspiracy of the 2016 election was that Russia interfered on his side. But those voices are long gone. In their place is a network of far-right Internet denizens, conservative media and members of Trump’s inner circle, advancing theories that have taken shape over the past two years. Those seeds have fallen on fertile ground.
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