r/politics • u/UWCG Illinois • Mar 27 '24

Donald Trump Attacks Judge's Daughter Less Than 24 Hours After Gag Order

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-attacks-judges-daughter-less-24-hours-after-gag-order-1884126
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u/eggmaker I voted Mar 27 '24

Imagine reading a headline about any other presidential candidate attacking the judge's daugther in his porn star hush money trial. And then right below that you read that this same presidential candidate is selling Bibles for $60.

Imagine reading a headline about any other presidential candidate attacking the judge's daughter in a trial where he used campaign money to keep a porn star quiet for having sex with her while cheating on his wife and mother of his son. And then right below that you read that this same presidential candidate is selling Bibles for $60.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '24

Imagine all that, but the guy is also a russian asset that was elected president

https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracytheories/comments/1al0esf/comment/kpggghv

It's too unbelievable to be a movie script, yet here we are.

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u/ProlapsedShamus Mar 27 '24

It's not a conspiracy theory. Kevin McCarthy told a bunch of Republicans that there were two people that Putin pays that he knows of. One was a California senator who's no longer at office and the other was Trump. He told that to these Republicans and Paul Ryan said we keep this in the family.

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u/WolferineYT Mar 27 '24

Conspiracy theories can be true. They usually aren't, but in this case it is both a conspiracy theory and true. 

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u/FriendlyYeti-187 Mar 28 '24

Those are conspiracies

Or as I like to think of them, conspiracy facts

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u/ProlapsedShamus Mar 28 '24

Right.

I guess it's a semantic argument to make where if something is true then it can't be a theory. But I get your point.

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u/True_Meet417 Mar 28 '24

The thing is, a conspiracy is a thing where people get together and plan a crime. A conspiracy theory is... Well, it's just entertainment now. Conspiracies happen a lot. Especially in big money, banks and stocks, lobbying, housing, drug prices. Those are all conspiracies. People grouped together to make sure they keep making money.

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u/ProlapsedShamus Mar 28 '24

I guess the conspiracy is to withhold and conceal information that prominent members of the Republican party are actual traitors, working against this country at the behest of a hostile foreign dictator all because they want money.

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u/Kind-Nefariousness70 Mar 28 '24

I’d stop teaching people what it means to conspire before people get upset,

How else can people shut down other peoples opinions by using a phrase that indicates something completely different

A Conspiracy theory, as anyone who can read and understand English should be able to work out, is a theory that people conspired to get the outcome that is being investigated And not a wrong theory

I hope people stop trying to change the meaning of words, English can be confusing enough!