Trump, Who Loves Conspiracy Theories So Much, Insists He's "Not A Conspiratorial Person"
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Trump, Who Loves Conspiracy Theories So Much, Insists He's "Not A Conspiratorial Person"
He also said he doesn't like to use the phrase "deep state" — but he very much does.
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he is "really not a conspiratorial person."
Trump made the comment during an interview in the Oval Office with The Hill Tuesday after he was asked about the "deep state" — a popular rightwing conspiracy theory that alleges liberal globalists are working to undermine the president.
"I don’t like to use it," the president said of the term, "because it sounds so conspiratorial and believe it or not I’m really not a conspiratorial person."
The comment comes from Trump, who has spent years — and effectively began his political career — pushing the debunked Obama-is-a-Kenyan conspiracy theory by questioning the legitimacy of his predecessor's birth certificate.
Trump has also pushed baseless conspiracy theories that:
He saw "thousands and thousands" of Muslims in New Jersey celebrating 9//11.
He won the popular vote in the 2016 election "if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally."
Climate change , despite scientific consensus , is "a total, and very expensive, hoax!"
And, without any evidence, has:
Insinuated that MSNBC host Joe Scarborough is actually a murderer.
Tried to link the father of Sen. Ted Cruz to the assassin who killed John F. Kennedy.
Flirted with the thoroughly-debunked idea that vaccines somehow cause autism.
Suggested that Google was conspiring to shadow ban positive news about him.
Said Democrats conspired to inflate last year's hurricane death toll in Puerto Rico, which was determined by a team of scholars and independent researchers.
And while Trump said "I don’t like to use" the phrase "deep state," he's used it here:
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So Trump supporters, when he says "I'm really not a conspiratorial person"
is he lying or is he stupid about his own previous behavior?
Column A or Column B ?
Trump lies +75% of the time so why do people expect him to be truthful now? People as dumb as he is if they believe his claims? It appears that he is psychologically unable to tell the truth from fiction so stop giving him the attention that he craves.
The problem that we face is that, when Trump says something like " I’m really not a conspiratorial person." the interviewer doesn't immediately stop and say "Mr. President, what the fuck are you talking about? You pushed the birther conspiracy for five years. You promoted a conspiracy theory that Ted Cruz father was involved in the Kennedy assassination. You promoted the conspiracy theory that Vince Foster was murdered. And there are many other conspiracies you have supported. Why aren't you telling the truth right now?"
Another key point is that Trump was warned not to hire Mike Flynn because he was a security risk and a nutty conspiracy theorist......and thus Trump decided Flynn was the ideal candidate to be his national security advisor.
True, but I think it also had a lot to do with the fact that Obama warned trump not to hire Flynn, for the reasons you listed. Well, we all trump hates Obama, (my guess is because trump bleated for 8 years that he wasn't born in the USA, and....he was, so trump was proven wrong), so trump probably hired Flynn JUST because Obama told him he shouldn't. I mean, trump's only purpose in office is to oppose everything Obama did because he has a severe case of ODS, (and he is a flaming racist).
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I am convinced that trump is mentally retarded.
This is right up there with Trump's: "I'm like a smart person."
And stable , very stable, don't forget that...