Donald Trump makes baseless claim that 'dark shadows' are controlling Joe Biden
Source: Guardian
Fox News interviewer says presidents bizarre suggestion sounds like a conspiracy theory
David Smith in Washington
@smithinamerica
Tue 1 Sep 2020 01.26 EDT
Donald Trumps appetite for baseless conspiracy theories scaled new heights on Monday when he alleged that people in dark shadows are controlling Democratic rival Joe Biden.
The US president made a mysterious claim about thugs in dark uniforms flying into Washington and also compared police brutality against African Americans to golfers cracking under pressure.
With the presidential election just two months away, Trump was interviewed at the White House by Laura Ingraham, a host on the conservative Fox News network. Who do you think is pulling Bidens strings? she asked. Is it former Obama people?
The president replied: People that youve never heard of, people that are in the dark shadows. People that
Even Ingraham, evidently sympathetic to Trump, interjected: What does that mean? That sounds like a conspiracy theory. Dark shadows. What is that?
Trump insisted: There are people that are on the streets, there are people that are controlling the streets.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/01/donald-trump-makes-baseless-claim-that-dark-shadows-are-controlling-joe-biden
greyl
(22,990 posts)Chicago1980
(1,968 posts)BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Chicago1980
(1,968 posts)SunSeeker
(51,504 posts)You can tell what Trump is up to by what he is accusing others of.
Just more projection.
pazzyanne
(6,543 posts)Sounds like he is talking about Stephen Miller.
SunSeeker
(51,504 posts)pazzyanne
(6,543 posts)Illumination
(2,458 posts)captain queeg
(10,084 posts)Illumination
(2,458 posts)PatSeg
(47,239 posts)keep him talking. The more he talks, the more absurd he sounds and the starker the contrast to Joe Biden.
Meanwhile, he seems to be getting more and more desperate every day. It appears that he may realize attacking Biden directly wasn't working too well, so now he's manufacturing dark, nefarious influences surrounding the former vice president. How long before he accuses Joe of being Putin's Puppet?
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cayugafalls
(5,639 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,563 posts)Barnabas scared me for years before the GOP had that same affect on me.
cayugafalls
(5,639 posts)Loved scary stuff. Even did horror makeup from an early age. That is probably why I wasn't bothered too much by TV fright shows.
I was more interested in how they did the effects, lol.
Now we have a insane clown shitgibbon spewing dark shadows nonsense. My how far we have fallen.
yankeepants
(1,979 posts)area51
(11,893 posts)captain queeg
(10,084 posts)Joinfortmill
(14,378 posts)LudwigPastorius
(9,095 posts)You just have to replace his name with the person he's attacking.
If we ever survive this psychologists will write books about, how once upon a time, the president was a gibbering lunatic.
onetexan
(13,019 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,138 posts)BlueMTexpat
(15,365 posts)like tRump's usual projection, it's backfired for me.
I used to love "Dark Shadows!"
jmowreader
(50,528 posts)Listen very, very closely: When your president draws a "Cartman, what the hell are you talking about?" from Laura Ingraham, it's time to withdraw from the race and lock Trump up in a padded room before he kills someone.
rpannier
(24,328 posts)He could do worse... like Putin
Mike Nelson
(9,942 posts)... the monsters in the White House are more wicked than any of the monsters on DARK SHADOWS!
Behind the Aegis
(53,919 posts)won't end well for some of us
mwb970
(11,339 posts)This guy really IS insane.
Illumination
(2,458 posts)drugs & mental decline are really taking a toll...
ck4829
(35,037 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,027 posts)Trying to whip up paranoia. It's all Donnie's got.
BumRushDaShow
(128,372 posts)Jonathan Frid would be rolling.
(would come home after school to watch that and it was pretty much the only soap opera I watched outside of "General Hospital" every once in awhile - at least in college - long enough to see "Luke and Laura's wedding" )
bucolic_frolic
(43,027 posts)Serious period of TV mind control. Not one of my proudest achievements.
BumRushDaShow
(128,372 posts)(at least the M*A*S*H finale was pretty good )
crickets
(25,951 posts)I was in college when that was going on. The entire student union filled up for the wedding, including the balcony. People who had never watched a soap in their lives showed up to watch. It was wild.
Botany
(70,442 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,027 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)the Q-anon playbook? Maybe his new Coronavirus voodoo priestess tells him these things?
Bengus81
(6,927 posts)Lulu KC
(2,560 posts)Dark Shadows. So scary NOT!!!!!
Yeehah
(4,566 posts)"Tell 'em Democrats are VAMPIRES!!"
Evolve Dammit
(16,694 posts)LiberalLovinLug
(14,164 posts)mzmolly
(50,978 posts)for his paranoia. He's clearly delusional.
Barbara2423
(459 posts)Now sure where the blame lies, maybe our educational system, tv, parents.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)Cha
(296,775 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,852 posts)Death scene from "Ghost":
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,315 posts)If Biden is controlled by Dementors, that's it! It's over! I'm voting Jill Stein! Start the "Susan Sarandon" revolution!
Dementors.
Karma13612
(4,538 posts)If ANY other presidents made this claim, they would have been escorted out of the Oval Office and taken to Walter Reed for a psyc eval. Full stop.