Trump Conspiracy Theories

Created
Tue, 17/09/2024 - 05:00
Updated
Tue, 17/09/2024 - 05:00
Sam Stein has a useful reminder for you. Loomer isn’t the (only) problem:  [I]f the presence of Laura Loomer by Trump’s side is what makes you worry that Trump will get dragged into the dark depths of conspiracy land, well, you’re way too late. The former president has been a prolific conspiracy theorist for decades. Let’s take a tour through what Trump was thinking even before Loomer joined his entourage: Trump was the de facto leader of the Obama birther movement, even casually suggesting that the director of the Hawaii Department of Health, who died in a plane crash, was murdered as part of a coverup. He openly mused that former Weather Underground member Bill Ayers wrote Obama’s memoir and that Obama never actually went to Columbia University. He floated the idea that Ted Cruz’s father had ties to Lee Harvey Oswald. He raised doubts about Vince Foster’s suicide. He wondered aloud if Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was suffocated to death. He pushed the story that Muslims in New Jersey were cheering after 9/11. He raised the idea that Marco Rubio was ineligible to be president because his parents weren’t yet U.S. citizens at the time of his birth. He did the same about Ted Cruz. And Nikki Haley. And Kamala Harris, too. He questioned the authenticity of the Access Hollywood tape (this was after he apologized for it). He claimed Obama had him wiretapped at Trump Tower. He claimed the death toll from Hurricane Maria was inflated to make him look bad. He said the noise from windmills causes cancer. He pushed a video saying that the Clintons killed Jeffrey Epstein. He said Ukraine could be hiding Hillary…