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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBusted: Trump Is Taking Ideas Directly From America's Most Famous Right-Wing Crackpot, Alex Jones
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/trump-stealing-alex-jonesThen, however, reporters moved on to the next story, with no time to Google from whence Trump derived this crackpot notion about water taken from farmers and shoved out to the sea. The answer, apparently: InfoWars, the website of lunatic conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Who believes, for instance, that the school shooting in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, was staged by the government, using actors, in order to force gun control down the American peoples throats.
The theory that Californias water shortage is all the fault of the Environmental Protection Agency is, like most conspiracy theories, grounded in an actual fact. The EPA has, in fact, caused 800,000 acre-feet of water annually to be flushed into San Francisco Bay to maintain its marine ecosystem. The program, however, dates to the early 1990s, and Californias water system, all told, manages over 40 million acre-feet a year. The practice that Trump describes so darkly involves 2 percent of thatand an economically vital 2 percent at that. California fisheries produce jobs in the hundreds of thousands. But not in Fresno.
The notion that rules governing 800,000 acre-feet of water are the cause of the much larger problem, and that business about the three-inch fish, datesword for wordto an April, 2015, InfoWars article entitled Environmentalists Caused California Drought to Protect This Fish.
Since last year, Rachel Maddow has been on the case of Donald Trumps deep ties to Alex Jones. On the morning of December 2, she wrote in a syndicated column, Jones hosted Trump for an extended live interview. After about 30 minutes of mutual compliments, and Jones telling Trump that about 90 percent of his listeners support him, the presidential candidate wrapped things up by telling Jones: Your reputation is amazing.
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Busted: Trump Is Taking Ideas Directly From America's Most Famous Right-Wing Crackpot, Alex Jones (Original Post)
gollygee
Jun 2016
OP
Bucky
(53,799 posts)1. He speaks his mindlessness
Mass
(27,315 posts)2. Trump is a crackpot himself. Whether a real one or an opportunist is the question, and it is frankly
not important.