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CNN - Debunking Donald Trump's latest conspiracy theory on Google
The playbook, by now, is familiar. Faced with a negative story - or stories - President Donald Trump uses his Twitter feed to float a conspiracy theory of some sort designed to distract and deflect.
On Tuesday, after weathering a self-inflicted wound caused by his unwillingness to acknowledge in any meaningful way the death of the late Sen. John McCain, Trump took to Twitter at 5:24 a.m. to send this message:
"Google search results for 'Trump News' shows only the viewing/reporting of Fake New Media. In other words, they have it RIGGED, for me & others, so that almost all stories & news is BAD. Fake CNN is prominent. Republican/Conservative & Fair Media is shut out. Illegal? 96% of results on 'Trump News' are from National Left-Wing Media, very dangerous. Google & others are suppressing voices of Conservatives and hiding information and news that is good. They are controlling what we can & cannot see. This is a very serious situation - will be addressed!"
So. The President of the United States is alleging a broad-scale conspiracy to filter news by the largest search engine in the world.
His "evidence"? That when he types "Trump News" into Google, it produces "only the viewing/reporting of "Fake News Media."
This is the essence of all conspiracy theories: You can't prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that I am wrong, so I just might be right!
The best conspiracy theories are perfect machines in that regard; any attempt to debunk them :
a) will necessarily come up short because definitive proof cannot and will not exist and
b) the very act of attempting to debunk will be seen as a surefire sign you are in on the conspiracy!
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What if Trump did actually shoot someone on Fifth Avenue?
By Thomas Friedman
New York Times
29 August 2018
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September 3 (AP) - President Donald Trump stopped his motorcade in Manhattan today, jumped out of his limousine and shot a man on Fifth Avenue who was shouting anti-Trump epithets. The shooting was recorded by the White House press pool as well as by dozens of bystanders with mobile phones and by security cameras in the area. When asked for his reaction, House Speaker Paul Ryan said, "We will need more information than is available at this point."
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said through pursed lips that he "was not going to comment on every up and down with this president." House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said he already had information indicating that the man whom Trump shot "worked for the Clinton Foundation and may have been a relative of former Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin."
Fox News did not cover Trump's shooting at the top of its broadcast, which focused instead on the killing of an Iowa woman by an undocumented immigrant. Fox's only reference to the fact that the president shot a man on Fifth Avenue was that "a New York City man died today when he ran right into a bullet fired by the president."
Senator Lindsey Graham quipped that "Trump shoots as well as he putts" and that this incident would not cause the South Carolina senator to cancel his coming golf round with the president at his Bedminster, New Jersey, course.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters that she was looking the other way when the shooting happened so she had no comment, adding: "I haven't had a chance to discuss it with the president. I'll get back to you if I have something. But the president has stated many times that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and get away with it. So he's just keeping a campaign promise. He did nothing wrong. There are no charges against him. And even though I have no comment, and he has no comment, we've commented on this extensively."
Hours later, though, the president tweeted: "Actually, some people are saying that a man who looked a lot like Barack Obama did the shooting. I'm not saying that - but some people are. It also could have been somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds who fired that shot. Like Rudy said: Truth is not truth - unless I say so."
Jerry Falwell Jr., a top evangelical leader, announced that his movement would be holding a vigil this evening, praying that the president had not stressed himself too much by having to shoot a man on Fifth Avenue. Falwell added, "This would never have happened if Jeff Sessions were doing his job."
The day ended with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos declaring that the fact that the president could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue in broad daylight "only proves again why we need to arm all our schoolteachers."
Author's comment: "My biggest challenge in writing all of the above? Worrying that readers wouldn't realise it was made up."
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Donald Trump warns privately of ‘violence’ if GOP loses midterms
President heard urging Christian ministers to sway voters and alluding to left-wing violence in leaked audio.
In a private meeting with Christian ministers, Donald Trump warned of “violence” if Republicans do not maintain control of Congress in the midterm elections, according to an audio recording of the meeting obtained by the New York Times.
At a state dinner for evangelical Christian ministers on Monday night at the White House, Trump urged religious leaders to use the power of their pulpits to make sure that “all of your people vote” in November, the New York Times reported.
“You’re one election away from losing everything you’ve got,” Trump reportedly told them.
He went on: “They will overturn everything that we’ve done and they’ll do it quickly and violently. And violently. There’s violence.
When you look at antifa, and you look at some of these groups, these are violent people.”
Trump’s comments appear to echo the rhetoric of political advertisements from the right-wing National Rifle Association.
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“They will overturn everything that we’ve done and they’ll do it quickly
That would be the plan one would hope. And the key election promise in 2020
The irony of this is that Trump has spent most of his presidency systematically destroying everything that Obama has done, regardless of merit.
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