9/2/2020
Yesterday, CNN catalogued nine conspiracy theories that Trump is currently spreading to his followers via numerous media sources.
1. A plane full of "thugs" in black uniforms flew into Washington, DC and, Tuesday, flew out -- but there's no evidence whatsoever.
2. Violent terrorists are funded by some "very stupid wealthy people" -- but aside from Trump conflating "terrorists" with BLM, there's no evidence whatsoever.
3. Only 9% of 185,000 COVID19 deaths to date were from COVID19, an idea promulgated by QAnon -- but they're not counting the 92% of the COVID19 death certificates that include co-morbidities such as hypertension, which were not the direct cause of death.
4. Trump won the popular vote in 2016 "in a true sense" because of fraud in New York and California -- except there wasn't.
5. The only way Trump could lose in 2020 is if the election is rigged -- except there's no evidence of rigging (except for efforts on Trump's side).
6. Mail-in voting (expected to come more from Democrats than Republicans) is rigged -- except it isn't, except by the Trump administration.
7. Biden is a puppet controlled by "people that are in the dark shadows"-- but there's no evidence whatsoever.
8. Biden as well as Obama spied on Trump's 2016 campaign -- but there is no evidence that anyone outside the FBI prompted the FBI's investigation into Trump's contacts with Russia during the campaign.
9. Biden takes performance-enhancing drugs, or he wouldn't have done so well against Sanders in an earlier campaign debate -- but this is "nonsense," according to CNN.
Okay, 11 lines: Anyone who falls for these conspiracy theories would probably fall for any scam, anywhere.
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