"The press opposition to wild theories is belied by their obsession with them.
... Every one of these dozens of examples has played out and been promoted during the Trump administration.
ANDREW CUOMO IS THREATENED WITH REMOVAL BECAUSE OF TRUMP’S EFFORTS The story here is that Trump is worried the New York attorney general will convict the former President, so in order to get off he needs to supplant Cuomo with a sycophant governor who could then pardon him. Trump staged the sexual harassment, as well as knocking off 15,000 nursing home residents and pinning the blame on Andrew in one long-con operation, goes the formula for this to work out.
TRUMP WAS PROFITING
OFF OF THE SALES
OF HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE
... the New York Times led the media charge that Trump had a personal stake in the drug’s success. This was all based on his ownership of a mutual fund that, among its voluminous stocks in the portfolio, had one drug maker that was among the dozens who sold the generic drug. The president at best stood to make pennies if HCQ became popular.
TO FIGHT OFF COVID-19 THE PRESIDENT ENCOURAGED PEOPLE TO INJECT BLEACH INTO THEIR VEINS, OR A FISH TANK CLEANER
This was one of the stupider claims to be heard, and yet it was widely distributed in the press only to scorch the President. In order for this story to take root they had to: Avoid providing quotes. Assume the general public was entirely mentally damaged. Ignore that those most upset were Trump opponents who never would listen to him.
CONSPIRING TO REPEAT THE JUSSIE SMOLLETT CONSPIRACY
The ridiculously fabricated racial ‘’hate crime’’ was both easily debunked, and warmly embraced by the press. Even when the actor/singer’s plot was exposed many outlets continued to push it as valid.
ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ SPINS MYTHS AT THE BORDER
... AOC visited a border facility and delivered a panel truck filled with fables. She posed for pictures at the fence and wept broadly for the tragedy before her – a view of an access road leading to a building that was out of vision. Then she reported the detainees were being forced to drink from toilets. The press ran with all of her fairy tales, despite the fact they were debunked rapidly by the officials.
JUSTICE KENNEDY RETIRES FROM THE SUPREME COURT AT TRUMP’S URGING DUE TO LOANS PAID OUT This was one theory pushed out by the recently deposed Neera Tanden ... The retirement of Justice Kennedy so bothered those on the left ... they invented a problem. Trump had received massive business loans from Deutsche Bank, where Kennedy’s son worked, which supposedly was behind the Justice stepping down. This all unraveled when it was learned the loans began in the 1990s, the son was not a part of the loan deals, and he left the bank nearly a decade prior to his father’s departure. Then there was the small matter that loaning the money meant, if anything, Trump would have been the one to be leveraged from the deal.
THE FIRING OF ANDREW MCCABE SET OFF EVERY CONCEIVABLE CONSPIRACY ATTACHED TO IT This was at the crest of the claims that Trump was attempting to compromise the entire law enforcement structure of the country, with experts like Max Boot claiming the President tried to ‘’Undermine the FBI, obstruct justice, and pervert the rule of law.’’ ... it was the FBI itself that determined McCabe lied to investigators. It was actually The Bureau that recommended McCabe be fired.
TED CRUZ USED A RUSSIAN BOT FARM DURING HIS ELECTION RUN
Lamar White Jr. broke open the discovery that numerous Twitter accounts were retweeting the same message of support for Ted Cruz during his last Senate run. ... implying it was due to foreign agents, something Josh McCall, a Democrat running for office in Georgia, agreed in a post. ... What happened was Cruz supporters had merely clicked on a retweet link he had posted from his campaign account.
THE WHITE HOUSE FAKED A ROSE GARDEN PRESS CONFERENCE WITH A GREEN SCREEN TO HIDE TRUMP’S FAILING HEALTH
Supposedly the intent was to fake Trump’s full recovery from Covid-19 by using technology. The New York Times even jumped on board, until they caught themselves getting caught up in the hype and then stealth-edited their report noting the alleged fakery.
THE TRUMP ELEVATOR SECURITY VIDEO For years there has been speculation and very involved searching taking place from numerous news outlets to get their hands on a copy of some security footage taken from an elevator in one of the Trump Towers. The soon-to-be-President is seen on the tape, and the chase to obtain this ‘’bombshell’’ footage has involved some of the biggest news outlets. The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Bloomberg, CBS News, AP, BuzzFeed, HuffPo, Daily Beast, and TMZ, as well as reporters like Ronan Farrow, Jeff Horwitz, and A.J. Benza are among those confirmed to have looked into the matter. Michael Avenatti was said to be on the hunt at one point as well. ... Nobody is even aware of what is supposed to be on this tape."
