Trump-pushed conspiracy theories:
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) August 12, 2019
-Clintons involved in Epstein
-Vince Foster
-Scalia foul play
-Birtherism (x3)
-3-5 mil illegal votes
-Wind farms cause cancer
-Global warming=Chinese hoax
-Asbestos=Mafia hoax
-Mass killing of white farmers in S. Africahttps://t.co/rnb5BBh1uU
"…There is no bottom to this President's willingness to destroy democratic norms…He will lie reflexively and promote conspiracy theories until it starts to seem normal. It isn't. This isn't a reality show. This is our country." | @JohnAvlon, @CNNOpinion https://t.co/fi7HakxBYp
— CNN (@CNN) August 13, 2019
“Trump has a long history of spreading falsehoods drawn from the fringes.
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) August 13, 2019
“His rise to the White House was fueled in part by spreading the lie that President Obama was not born in the U.S., and he has trafficked in numerous others to malign his opponents” https://t.co/z8y8GuHWzq
“It’s another example of something where he should stop and think about the fact that he’s the president of the United States, and stop his thumbs, but he never does,” said Rich Lowry. https://t.co/hj9HGxsSKd
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) August 13, 2019
“I started realizing that a lot of people were united in a belief in conspiracy theories because something bad had happened to them, and they were sort of looking for answers that mainstream explanations for things didn’t provide.” —@annamerlan https://t.co/zW90YV5Ncu
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) August 14, 2019
Sad! 