How Donald Trump has enabled the outrageous 'crisis actors' conspiracy in Florida

[DonViejo]

Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large

Updated 9:05 AM ET, Wed February 21, 2018

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Remember that the genesis of Trump's political relevance can be directly traced to a conspiracy theory: The disproven idea, relentlessly promoted by Trump earlier this decade, that then-President Barack Obama was not born in the United States.

Trump's flogging of that fallacy earned him credibility within some segments of the conservative movement ready to believe the absolute worst about Obama and support anyone willing to say it.

Trump's 2016 presidential candidacy was replete with conspiracy theories. Muslims were celebrating on New Jersey rooftops on 9/11. Former Clinton aide Vince Foster didn't actually commit suicide. Ted Cruz's father may have been involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died under suspicious circumstances. The infamous "Access Hollywood" tape might be a fake. Several million votes were cast illegally, costing Trump a popular vote victory.

You get the idea. Trump is someone who has taken conspiracy theories from the fringe to the center of the national conversation. He has mainstreamed not only specific conspiracies but also conspiratorial thinking.

At the root of Trump's entire political ethos is the idea that "they" aren't telling you the whole story. That the elites are protecting themselves by hiding inconvenient facts from the people. They always have been. And they'll never stop.

Trump's embrace of conspiracy theories provides a massive amount of cover for those who peddle in this filth. Even if he doesn't specifically give voice to the idea that the Parkland murders were some sort of false flag operation designed to engender anti-gun sentiment, he has already made the sort of conspiratorial thinking that gives rise to these ideas part and parcel of our everyday dialogue

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[GusBob]

1. Conspiracy theory is just a fancy word for a lie aint it?

Maybe a lie with an agenda?

Trump lies every day. He lied this very day. ( Obama did act on Russian meddling, more people would know about it but it was dropped the very same day the pussy tape came out)

Its not much of a slippery slope folks. People who swallow his lies every day will believe, say, or do anything to suit their purposes.

[Cha]

2. So Cilliza doesn't think trump is

"presidential" anymore, eh? got over that, did he?

Call him what he is.. a lying, insecure, perverted fool.. who can't handle reality.

Yes, he's also the head Bullshiter.

M$m spent the GE campaign trying to normalize him.

Isn't trump suppose to be meeting families in the wh today?