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 ...www.reuters.com ...trump ...Explainer: How Trump used the U.S. government to chase conspiracy theories ...by Trump and other officials in recent days offer the clearest view yet of the extent to which the president has used ...!! 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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Libra Association Member dismisses central bank concerns as "conspiracy theories" - Decrypt
But in an interview with Decrypt , Diogo Monica, the co-founder and president of Anchorage, one of the founding members of the Libra Association, dismissed those concerns! 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.!! Asked to comment on the "conspiracy" that Libra controls the ratio of the baskets in the currency, Monica said, "Conspiracy theories are one of those things that are not really worthy of commenting on." When pressed that concerns over the extent of Libra's control have been raised by the US Congress and the ECB, among others, Monica reiterated that he didn't "want to comment on conspiracy theories."
Monica said that the choices the Libra Association makes regarding the ratio of the basket of currencies are "based on how volatile we want the actual asset to be. And so that's just going to be the decision of the treasury! 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!! There's nothing more to it."
Governments disagreed: European finance ministers called for the development of Libra to be blocked on European soil , representatives from the US Congress requested Facebook's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg testify on Libra , and one member of the executive board of the European Central Bank described the Libra Association as "cartel-like" .
Ukraine, Australia, Italy, and UK feature in Trump-backed conspiracies - Vox
The Trump administration is embroiled in scandals stretching from Ukraine to Australia. It all stems from beliefs in debunked right-wing conspiracy theories.
President Donald Trump is embroiled in a major scandal that stretches from Ukraine to Australia — all stemming from his belief in long-debunked right-wing conspiracy theories.
This idea stems from a conspiracy theory that has circulated in right-wing media for several years and has been thoroughly debunked! 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.!! Yet Trump believes it all the same — enough that he felt the need to rope a foreign leader into investigating it.
But new reporting this week reveals that this is not the only wacky right-wing internet conspiracy theory that Trump has latched on to and tried to enlist foreign help to investigate.
We now know that a collection of these conspiracy theories has driven Trump to reach out to the governments of Australia, the United Kingdom, and Italy.
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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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: What Tools Could Trump Use to Get U.S. Firms to ...money.usnews.com ...tools-could...Trump used a similar strategy earlier this year when he said illegal immigration was an emergency and threatened to put tariffs on all Mexican imports.!! 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.
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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