Nine conspiracy theories Trump is currently pushing:
If you want the rebuttals, read the entire article.Protests
In a Monday interview on Fox News, Trump told a story about what he claimed was a flight to Washington in which the plane was "almost completely loaded with thugs wearing these dark uniforms," people bent on causing destruction in the streets. He repeated a version of the story on Tuesday -- but that time said the flight was traveling from Washington rather than to Washington.
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Wealthy funders
In the Monday interview, Trump suggested that violent protesters were being funded by "some very stupid rich people." This was similar to a claim he made earlier in August, when he alleged on Fox that antifa activists were being funded by the Democrats, billionaire George Soros or "other people."
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The coronavirus
On Twitter and in the Fox News interview (parts of which aired on Tuesday), Trump promoted a claim -- touted on Twitter by a supporter of the QAnon conspiracy theory -- that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had admitted that only 6% of reported Covid-19 deaths are people who "actually" died from Covid-19.
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The 2016 popular vote
Trump, who earned about 2.9 million fewer votes in the 2016 election than opponent Hillary Clinton, claimed in the Fox interview that he actually won the popular vote "in a true sense." Part of his reasoning: "I think there was tremendous cheating in California, there was tremendous cheating in New York and other places."
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The general fairness of the 2020 election
In a speech to the Republican National Convention, Trump said, "The only way they can take this election away from us is if this is a rigged election."
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Mail voting in the 2020 election
Trump has repeatedly alleged in the last month that the increased use of mail-in voting this year will produce a rigged election.
He has tried to cast doubt on the safety of drop boxes where mail ballots can be deposited. He has claimed that foreign countries can easily interfere with mail voting. On Wednesday, he suggested that there is something nefarious about the fact that he may have a lead in votes counted on election night but then turn out to lose the election after mail ballots are counted in the following days.
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Biden's independence
Trump, who has repeatedly tried to portray Biden as a puppet of the far left, went further in the Fox interview -- saying Biden's strings are being pulled by "people that you've never heard of. People that are in the dark shadows."
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Biden and spying
Trump has now dragged Biden into his frequent allegation that President Barack Obama spied on his 2016 campaign. He said on August 12: "... they spied on my campaign, President Obama, Biden and everybody else, and they got caught."
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Biden and drugs
Trump alleged, in the Fox interview and in an interview with the Washington Examiner last week, that Biden is taking some sort of performance-enhancing drug or drugs.
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...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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