Of Course Trump Is All In on Paul Pelosi Conspiracy Theories
By: Benjamin Hart (Intelligencer)
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The scene after the break-in. Photo: Arthur Dong/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
Donald Trump's personal penchant for conspiracy theories, from birtherism to election denial, may be the biggest single reason why the Republican Party has devolved so thoroughly into tinfoil-hat territory over the last few years. So naturally he is all over the wacky speculation that cropped up within hours, or maybe even minutes, of last week's attack against Paul Pelosi, husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. If anything, it's a surprise it took the former president so long to add fuel to the conspiracy fire.
In an radio interview with conservative commentator Chris Stigall on Tuesday, the former president performed his familiar routine of sowing doubt about official narratives with a healthy amount of innuendo.
"I'm not a fan of Nancy Pelosi, but what's going on there is very sad," Trump said. "The whole thing is crazy," he continued after Stigall claimed there was no evidence the attacker was politically motivated. "If there's even a little bit of truth to what's being said — the window was broken in, and it was strange the cops were standing there practically from the moment it all took place."
Almost as soon as news outlets reported the attack against Pelosi, a predictable pattern emerged: Prominent right-wing media personalities seized on inconsistencies in early accounts of what happened to challenge the idea that it was motivated by political factors.
Police initially said that an unidentified person had answered the door, which gave rise to the idea that there were more than two people in the Pelosi home when police arrived. One outlet published a story claiming that Paul Pelosi had been in his underwear when police arrived, leading to fanciful theories of a lovers' tryst. And a 911 call seemed to indicate that Pelosi knew his alleged attacker, David DePape, a point Stigall brought up with Trump. Social-media detectives analyzed the pattern of broken glass near the Pelosis' back door in an attempt to prove that it did not line up with the official story.
Police statements since, including a comprehensive report on the incident, made clear that there were only two people in the house and that Paul Pelosi did not know DePape. Police say DePape specifically targeted the Pelosis' home and wanted to break the Speaker's kneecaps as a warning to other Democrats (though DePape's apparent mental illness makes assigning him a coherent ideology a fraught exercise).
Naturally, none of that matters much to the people who continue to spout the disproven theory, often with a wink and a nod. And while some Republicans straightforwardly condemned the attack, other popular figures in the party made light of it, including Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake and Donald Trump Jr.
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He even involves the cops in the conspiracy. Conservatives, until you tell this fool to shut the f up, and throw him out of your party, you have no standing to talk about anyone else.
... and you have no business holding DePape out as some ordinary conservative in a long line of those willing to do the same. If virtue signaling is what you're looking for - sorry, phony fawning seems to be one of your clan's traits.
You are talking about something, but its not this seed or what I said. The article is about Donald Trump spreading disproven conspiracy theories about an 82 year old man that was almost bludgeoned to death.
...is a fucking cut and paste.
Are you ok? I have no idea what you are talking about.
That's obvious.
He doesn't either.
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And your threads/seeds/articles aren't trolling???
If you had threads/seeds/articles that were of interest to the rest of the community - like you really, really used to have - maybe you wouldn't be on the defensive so much.
Trolling - for telling the truth???
What are you saying? Time is running out on America? I would agree.
The entire situation and the media's narrative do stink however is it really our business what happens in the privacy of Paul and Nancy Pelosi's house?
The real problem here is that our politicians have become so rich and powerful that they can control the police, justice and the truth.
We should all find it utterly disgusting that any elected officials could create an empire of wealth from insider trading and laugh at the mere mention of such corruption. If this is the progress you support you are not a progressive and you certainly have no idea what a liberal is. This is far from compatible with the ideology.
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This event is most certainly our business, but I wouldn’t classify it as “the privacy of Paul and Nancy Pelosi's house.” Someone tried to maim/assassinate the Speaker of the House. That is most definitely our business.
“and his possible antics while Nancy is Away”
Like getting his skull fractured by a right wing fanatic wielding a hammer in his home in the middle of the night?
This dialogue and any imbecile that engages in it is beyond desperate, beyond despicable, beyond explanation.
You can have your pick of imbeciles who believe it. Some of them are right here.
Is this sarcasm?
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“This dialogue and any imbecile that engages in it is beyond desperate, beyond despicable, beyond explanation.”
Citation? It couldn’t have been penned by you…right dropout?
What the fuck?
He has no idea what he's talking about.
Are you referring to the ignorance/conspiracy that Musk promoted on Twitter that Mr. Pelosi was attacked by a gay lover?
What are you referring to then? Do you know?
So you don't know what you're talking about.
Thanks for the confirmation.
Neither does anyone else.