In March 2017, I posted Trump’s wiretapping claim shows his vulnerability for conspiracy theories at my personal blog, which became the 27th most read entry of last year. This month, Vox Trump invented a fake spy scandal. People will still believe it, which shows that Trump still loves conspiracy theories.
It’s a tactic the president has used before, and it works.
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President Trump calls it calls it “spygate:” the allegation that the FBI and democrats put a spy in his campaign to help Hillary Clinton. It’s not true.Top [R]epublicans like Speaker Paul Ryan have even disputed the president. But even though it’s a conspiracy theory, millions of Americans will still believe it. It’s a playbook he has used before.
“Spygate” is an attempt to delegitimize the FBI and special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. If the American people lose trust in them, they won’t believe whatever the investigation finds. It’s working.
Some things just don’t change.
This concludes the current series on political psychology. I may return to the topic later, but only after I post about the Retail Apocalypse. Stay tuned.