Trump Defends Parroting JFK-Cruz Conspiracy

[DonViejo]

Source: The Daily Beast


In a new interview published Thursday, President Donald Trump defends and doubles down on many of the falsehoods that he has repeated throughout the 2016 campaign and his presidency. Notably, Trump defended parroting a baseless attack on Ted Cruz’s father—that he was somehow involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy—by saying it was “in a newspaper.” The charge was first brought to the forefront, though, by the National Enquirer, a supermarket tabloid known for peddling hoaxes and conspiracies. “I was referring to a newspaper. A Ted Cruz article referred to a newspaper story with, had a picture of Ted Cruz, his father, and Lee Harvey Oswald, having breakfast,” Trump said in an interview with Time, adding: “I’m just quoting the newspaper.” (The supposed Cruz-Oswald photo has never been authenticated and Cruz did in fact deny the report.) In the interview, Trump also stood by his unsubstantiated claims that millions of people voted illegally in the 2016 election, that U.S. Muslims were cheering on the 9/11 terror attacks, and that President Obama ordered a wiretap of Trump Tower.

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[Initech]

1. Let me guess - he "read" an article on Shitwars / Breitfart and believed it as fact?

[DonViejo]

4. As reported in the article; The National Enquirer

[Initech]

6. Wait - he reads the National Enquirer?

[DonViejo]

8. Yep, and the guy that owns it is one of his buds

watches FOX and reads Breitbart. It's all part of the plan to "Make America Great Again"

[Initech]

11. Wow, that explains all the pro-Trump crap I see in the supermarket check out aisle.

[groundloop]

13. Xactly!!!! I've 'learned' many things in the checkout line

The National Rag informed me that Pres. Obama's daughter was secretly undergoing rehab, that 45* has been making 'bold decisions', and on and on.

[Marcuse]

18. Current issue

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/eSwpITyTj_IpqOJBuMs9mMrhgm1-ehuXA9vJLm3pZdWGpiXMeCZmg4ayiJWI_Gb69V6EcZsZ=w300

[titaniumsalute]

2. I was torn whether he said stuff because he's nuts or to inflame his base

Now I'm really thinking he's just nuts and his base follows along like sheep.

[ColemanMaskell]

23. to create distractions whenever the real news looks bad for him

He just tweets something outrageous and all eyes turn toward that, and away momentarily from, say, the Russian investigation(s). It works, for a while at least.

Or if he falls off the front pages, he tweets something outrageous to get attention. Look how much attention he got from his years of allegations about Obama's birthplace. It works for him. He's like Veruca in that first Willie Wonka movie.

He probably is nuts, and his base do seem to resemble inflamed sheep somewhat, but the point of his "saying stuff" is to focus attention wherever he needs it to be at that moment.

He's an entertainer -- member of the Screen Actors Guild, or that's what people say

[UpInArms]

3. the guy is fabulist

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[tenorly]

5. Although to be fair, Cruz's father probably was involved - albeit in a very minor, subordinate role.

If you recall the scene in JFK where Carlos Bringuier (the Tony Plana character) and three other Cubans accost Oswald in New Orleans as part of the operation to blame the upcoming assassination on Castro, the elder Cruz was said to be one of those three Cubans.

We'll never really know.

[KingCharlemagne]

7. Stone's cinematic mishmash is as discredited now as Garrison's

own efforts.

Read Bugliosi's Reclaiming History. Oswald acted alone to try to curry favor with the Castro regime to secure transit to the USSR for him and his wife.

[tenorly]

12. Now THAT seems far fetched.

Obviously, neither you, I, Bugliosi, or Oliver Stone know what really happened. But of all the misinformation stories put out there, that one has to be one of the silliest.

[KingCharlemagne]

19. Bugliosi also published a book that called for the prosecution of Bush

for murder for Iraq. not sure why you think Bugliosi is silly.

[grantcart]

27. Bugliosi who is an obviously skilled investigator and prosecutor

is a Democrat who condemned Bush vs Gore, Clinton and believed that the assassination of RFK probably was the result of a conspiracy.

Reclaiming History was favourably reviewed by a wide variety of well known objective critics who gave it very favourable reviews, only those who were part of the industry to profit from the conspiracies faulted it but there hasn't been anyone who has been able to refute his basic arguments:

In a review for The New York Times, Bryan Burrough wrote: "Bugliosi is refreshing because he doesn’t just pick apart the conspiracy theorists. He ridicules them, and by name, writing that 'most of them are as kooky as a $3 bill.'"[5] Alex Kingsbury of U.S. News & World Report described it as "the most exhaustive of the countless narratives that have been written about that fateful day in Dallas."[6] According to Steve Donoghue of Open Letters Monthly: "Reclaiming History, in addition to being the longest book ever written on the subject of the Kennedy assassination, is also the most enjoyable of them all to read."[7] Tim Shipman of The Telegraph said: "Mr Bugliosi... has turned up no new killer fact. His technique instead is to expose the double-think and distortions of the conspiracy theorists."[8] Kirkus Reviews said the point of Reclaiming History is to "dismantle [conspiracy] theories one by one, in sometimes tedious and overladen detail". Kirkus added that "Bugliosi does himself and his argument no favors with his tone of flippancy and dismissiveness" but described the book as "oddly fascinating".[9]

No one, even those that he exposed, labelled it "silly".

[R Merm]

9. Nothing is ever his fault.

There is always someone else to blame, in this case the original article in the National Enquirer. Or in the case or the batched Yeman raid the military, because they planed it. He is such a child.

[NewRedDawn]

10. But Teddy

after that & insults by Trump to his wife is one of his biggest fluffers.

[IcyPeas]

14. National Enquirer talk about Fake News

so he thinks the National Enquirer is a reputable newspaper

and CNN et al. are Fake News.......

he is so twisted

[DK504]

15. OMG!! This is hilarious!!!!!!

" ... —that he was somehow involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy—by saying it was “in a newspaper.” The charge was first brought to the forefront, though, by the National Enquirer,... "

We are truly living in a "Idiocracy".

[Solly Mack]

16. I'm just quoting. I'm just re-telling. I'm just repeating. I'm just saying what someone else said.

Can't blame me!

I didn't start it! I'm just repeating it over and over and over and over and over and over again.

What a fucking child!

[grantcart]

17. Trump makes children vomit. I know this because I saw it on a magazine

[bathroommonkey76]

22. That's fuckin great! LOL

[floridafella]

25. Ok, that was funny. :)

[grantcart]

26. Welcome to DU

[riversedge]

20. Trump has memorized his stump Talking points and is too lazy to memorize new ones-except

a few--.

[riversedge]

21. umm. Trumpy did another--I am just quoting a respected Juddge (fox news)..

He is a fool.



......“I was referring to a newspaper. A Ted Cruz article referred to a newspaper story with, had a picture of Ted Cruz, his father, and Lee Harvey Oswald, having breakfast,” Trump said in an interview with Time, adding: “I’m just quoting the newspaper.” (The supposed Cruz-Oswald photo has never been authenticated and Cruz did in fact deny the report.)

[MotorCityMan]

24. Oh...my...god....

I couldn't read the Time article at work, but was able to at home. That boy ain't right. He is incoherent as hell, just spouts off what pops into his pinhead. He didn't say those things, he was just quoting "reputable" sources. And the New York Times took wiretapping out of a headline. My main take away from the article is he was RIGHT!

From Women of the Year (1980 musical with Lauren Bacall, based on the Tracy/Hepburn movie)

I was RIGHT! I was perfectly right,
My instincts are valid and strong;
When you're right, you're right, I know when I'm right
It's remarkably rare that I'm wrong.

Bet the orange shitgibbon knows that one.

[TexasBushwhacker]

28. "had a picture of Ted Cruz, his father, and Lee Harvey Oswald, having breakfast",

Ted Cruz was born in 1970!