Trump, Fox News, and Twitter have created a dangerous conspiracy theory loop
The president tweeted literal fake news about the so-called Spygate controversy. The story behind the tweet is revealing and scary.
Source: Vox, by Zack Beauchamp
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Strzok-Page, the incompetent & corrupt FBI lovers, have texts referring to a counter-intelligence operation into the Trump Campaign dating way back to December, 2015, the president wrote. SPYGATE is in full force!
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The problem is that, as far as we know, none of those texts mentioned anything about there being a counterintelligence operation against the Trump campaign as early as December 2015. So where the hell did the president come up with that idea?
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So what happened, it seems, is that a conspiratorial interpretation of texts between two FBI employees, one entirely unfounded in the actual evidence, got laundered from the fringe right-wing media to the right-wing mainstream through Fox News personalities and eventually reached up to a member of Congress and the president of the United States.
This says something profound about the way the country is broken today about how Trump and the conservative media have combined forces to warp the way millions of Americans understand the world around them.
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Read it all
and much more at:
https://www.vox.com/world/2018/6/6/17433876/trump-spygate-fox-twitter