Trump’s conspiracy theories find an audience

[struggle4progress]

By Michael Levenson
GLOBE STAFF JUNE 30, 2016

Sometimes, Donald Trump sounds as though he is just passing on information, as he did after Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died. “They say they found a pillow on his face,” Trump told a radio interviewer, “which is a pretty unusual place to find a pillow.”

Other times, he seems to be wondering aloud, as he did when he suggested the Clintons might have been involved in what he termed the “very fishy” 1993 suicide of former White House aide Vince Foster.

More famously, he helped drive the so-called birther movement, insisting that President Obama was not born in the United States and that investigators he had sent to Hawaii would expose “one of the greatest cons in the history of politics and beyond” ...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/06/30/some-they-sound-crazy-but-trump-conspiracy-theories-resonate-with-wide-swath-public/7HFzyTzJAio6vn0QGGcTdO/story.html

[Zambero]

1. Now it's Mexican air strikes

"Who knows what that plane up there is going to do?" Oh well, it looks like Trump will have to redesign his border wall high enough to keep out aircraft as well. However absurd, whenever he comes up with this shit, it gets taken as gospel truth.

[elljay]

2. Some have said

that Mexicans are very clever. Not sure we can build a wall high enough to stop them!