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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsis our media waking up? 'Many people are saying -- that Trump drives conspiracies and gossip'
(CNN)Donald Trump is hearing things.
The information is coming from "many people," but it has all led him to one simple conclusion: "There is something going on."
Employing a witches' brew of vague but inflammatory language, the Republican presidential nominee has repeatedly amplified and offered roundabout endorsements to conspiracy theories and outright lies by presenting them, in speeches and interviews, with an increasingly dubious caveat.
"Many people are saying," Trump tweeted on Monday night, "that the Iranians killed the scientist who helped the US because of Hillary Clinton's hacked emails."
The claim was not based on any substantive evidence, but its construction was familiar and designed to inure the candidate from having to defend its truth or credibility. After all, this was not Trump talking -- it was the "many people" for whom he has become a tribune and champion.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/09/politics/donald-trump-conspiracy-many-people-are-saying/index.html
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is our media waking up? 'Many people are saying -- that Trump drives conspiracies and gossip' (Original Post)
spanone
Aug 2016
OP
Many people are saying DT is an asshole. And guess what? They're fucking right.
MichiganVote
Aug 2016
#1
Absolutely. And its not going to be forgotten by Dem's. The spineless GOP leadership
MichiganVote
Aug 2016
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MichiganVote
(21,086 posts)1. Many people are saying DT is an asshole. And guess what? They're fucking right.
spanone
(135,843 posts)2. this is dangerous shit he's spewing.
MichiganVote
(21,086 posts)4. Absolutely. And its not going to be forgotten by Dem's. The spineless GOP leadership
may cower, but we're fucking not. Too may of us have lived through the horrible assassinations of the past. WE know what we're dealing with here.
Andy823
(11,495 posts)3. If they don't wake up
They are going to look like complete idiots when Trump goes over the edge, and someone gets hurt, or killed. They have covered fro him for over a year, let him get away with all kinds of asinine things, and now just maybe they are starting realize they are catering to a maniac, and they best get their shit together before it's to late.
MichiganVote
(21,086 posts)5. The GOP leadership are all cowards. They won't do shit. But we will.