Donald Trump makes baseless claim that 'dark shadows' are controlling Joe Biden

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Guardian

Fox News interviewer says president’s bizarre suggestion ‘sounds like a conspiracy theory’

David Smith in Washington
@smithinamerica
Tue 1 Sep 2020 01.26 EDT

Donald Trump’s 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 Biden’s strings?” she asked. “Is it former Obama people?”

The president replied: “People that you’ve 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

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[greyl]

1. Sentients of the world know how foul Donald is.

[Chicago1980]

2. Sounds Qtardish...

[BlueIdaho]

37. QTards... can I use that?

[Chicago1980]

45. I insist...

[SunSeeker]

3. Trump projecting again.

You can tell what Trump is up to by what he is accusing others of.

[ananda]

15. Yep

Just more projection.

[pazzyanne]

19. "people in "dark shadows"

Sounds like he is talking about Stephen Miller.

[SunSeeker]

48. Or Putin. nt

[pazzyanne]

50. Yep. nt

[Illumination]

23. Right. He also reveals his hand, watches way too much TV & supports that wacky QAnon group!

[captain queeg]

4. He is a babbling idiot. Keep asking him what he means, let him spell it out

[Illumination]

24. Even he doesn't know what he means! He often doesn't have valid answers to questions asked.

[PatSeg]

36. Yes, I'm thinking

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?

[cayugafalls]

6. The ringleader

[BigmanPigman]

9. My babysitter used to watch that.

Barnabas scared me for years before the GOP had that same affect on me.

[cayugafalls]

10. Yea, I watched the show as a kid. I was kind of weird.

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]

12. Ha! We used to rush home from school to watch "Dark Shadows"!

[area51]

13. I can't resist.

[captain queeg]

41. I thought of that too.

[Joinfortmill]

7. Sounds like projection to me.

[LudwigPastorius]

8. Sometimes, Trump's lies inadvertently tell a truth.

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]

14. +1 -K&R

[truthisfreedom]

11. Q-tard.

[BlueMTexpat]

16. While this definitely sounds

like tRump's usual projection, it's backfired for me.

I used to love "Dark Shadows!"

[jmowreader]

17. Note to the GOP

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]

18. The cast of the TV series?!

He could do worse... like Putin

[Mike Nelson]

20. I think...

... the monsters in the White House are more wicked than any of the monsters on DARK SHADOWS!

[Behind the Aegis]

21. seen this before

won't end well for some of us

[mwb970]

22. What is he TALKING about?

This guy really IS insane.

[Illumination]

25. This is not a properly functioning mind! He can no longer hold intelligent conversations. The

drugs & mental decline are really taking a toll...

[ck4829]

26. ... Okaaaaay...

[bucolic_frolic]

27. Dark Shadows? The old soap opera? Trump's sick mind fully on display here, he's a beached whale now

Trying to whip up paranoia. It's all Donnie's got.

[BumRushDaShow]

28. I was just going to post that!

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]

30. I remember Luke and Laura's wedding, and the Ice Princess

Serious period of TV mind control. Not one of my proudest achievements.

[BumRushDaShow]

32. ...

(at least the M*A*S*H finale was pretty good )

[crickets]

42. Hey, don't knock Luke and Laura. That was fun stuff. Even Liz Taylor got involved. 😄

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]

29. He is nuttier than a squirrel turd

[bucolic_frolic]

31. Make America Great Again in TV world ... what's next, Bennie Hill? Was he Trump's role model?

[Scarsdale]

33. Isn't this straight out of

the Q-anon playbook? Maybe his new Coronavirus voodoo priestess tells him these things?

[Bengus81]

34. So....Johnny Depp is controlling Biden's mind??

[Lulu KC]

35. For the love of Pete

Dark Shadows. So scary NOT!!!!!

[Yeehah]

38. "OK....nothing else is working...."

"Tell 'em Democrats are VAMPIRES!!"

[Evolve Dammit]

39. Barnabus Collins. I knew it! So obvious all along. Seriously, this MF is seriously off his crumpet.

[LiberalLovinLug]

40. This works well on evangelicals

[mzmolly]

43. He needs an immediate psych eval

for his paranoia. He's clearly delusional.

[Barbara2423]

44. What a shame 40% of Americans fall for this nonsense.

Now sure where the blame lies, maybe our educational system, tv, parents.

[sarcasmo]

46. Dark Shadows

[Cha]

47. So Evil trump Projecting is calling Putin "a dark Shadow".. Got it.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

49. It's just these guys waiting for Trump to die.

Death scene from "Ghost":

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

51. Dementors? I hate dementors!

If Biden is controlled by Dementors, that's it! It's over! I'm voting Jill Stein! Start the "Susan Sarandon" revolution!

Dementors.

[Karma13612]

52. Time for Article 25.

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.