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This essay is part of a series The New Yorker will be running through the election titled “Trump and the Truth.” It is no surprise that, by feverishly indulging conspiracy theories of many kinds, Donald Trump would end up reintroducing America to the master conspiracy theory of them all, the first …
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Claim: Eerie clouds over Geneva were caused by the particle collider at CERN opening a portal to a new dimension. What’s True There was a storm over Geneva in June 2016, and nature photographer Christophe Suarez captured images from the event. What’s False The photographs do not portray CERN …
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Oren Aks/ThrillistOren Aks/ThrillistIf you thought juicy, batshit conspiracy theories were limited to acts of war, mid-’90s Mel Gibson vehicles, and Beyonce-Z’s marriage… you clearly haven’t been exposed to enough weird corners of the internet: even what we eat and drink is suspect to bonkers …
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“I don’t know his father. I met him once. I think he’s a lovely guy,” Donald Trump said at a morning-after rally in Cleveland. | Getty By DAN SPINELLI 07/22/2016 11:25 AM EDT A day after accepting the Republican Party’s nomination for president, Donald Trump rehashed a conspiracy theory that claims …
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Claim: Fire and smoke billowing from the vicinity of the Eiffel Tower were evidence of a Bastille Day terrorist attack in Paris. Just after a devastating attack in Nice, France, on 14 July 2016 — in which dozens of people were killed and still more wounded when a man identified as French-Tunisian …
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On December 2nd, while the awful news from San Bernardino was erupting, bit by unconfirmed bit, I was surprised by the crisp self-assurance of a couple of bloggers whose names were new to me. They were on it—number of victims, names of shooters, police-radio intercepts. Soon, though, the bloggers …
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump smiles following his victory in the May 3 Indiana primary, which cemented his status as the GOP’s de facto nominee. Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump …
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Trump accuses Cruz’s father of helping JFK’s assassin Donald Trump on Tuesday alleged that Ted Cruz’s father was with John F. Kennedy’s assassin shortly before he murdered the president, parroting a National Enquirer story claiming that Rafael Cruz was pictured with Lee Harvey Oswald handing out …
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10:50 am ET 10:50 am ET By Maggie Haberman 10:50 am ET 10:50 am ET By Maggie Haberman Photo Donald J. Trump spoke at the Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel, Ind., on Monday.Credit Eric Thayer for The New York Times Donald J. Trump, who has repeatedly dabbled in conspiracy …
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Claim: Multiple news outlets reported that primary voters in New York claimed their votes were switched from Bernie Sanders to Hillary Clinton. On 19 April 2016, social media users began sharing links to what appeared to be a Huffington Post article titled “The Fix Is In: Sanders Supporters in New …
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