Trump would have been 15 or 16 like I was when Kennedy was assassinated. So, this is likely when he became a fan of "Conspiracy Theories" like most people did after JFK was assassinated. Everyone knew the government was lying so confidence in our government plummeted then from 75% confidence then down close to zero after Kennedy was assassinated. Confidence in Government has never returned since then ever.
However, I think Trump is the first president that believes in really crazy conspiracy theories like Obama being born in Kenya and stuff like that which is troubling for our nation. Hitler believed in Conspiracy theories too and killed a lot of people because of his conspiracy theories also.
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The CIA chief met with a conspiracy theorist at Trump's urging
CIA director looking into DNC hack theory 01:53
(CNN)CIA
Director Mike Pompeo recently met -- at the urging of President Donald
Trump -- with one of the principal deniers of Russian interference in
the US election, according to multiple intelligence sources.
Trump
apparently made the highly unusual request that Pompeo meet with the
former National Security Agency employee and look into a theory that the
leak of Democratic Party emails last year was an inside job rather than
a cyberattack by Russian hackers.
William
Binney, the former NSA employee-turned-whistleblower who circulated the
conspiracy theory, confirmed to CNN that he met with Pompeo for about
an hour on October 24 -- despite the fact the intelligence community
concluded early this year that Russia interfered in the 2016
presidential election.
The meeting was first reported by The Intercept.
The
CIA responded to CNN's inquiry about the meeting by saying that Pompeo
"stands by and has always stood by the January 2017 intelligence
community assessment" that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential
election.
Binney,
who has theorized that the theft and release of thousands of DNC emails
was actually carried out by a DNC employee, told CNN that Pompeo began
the meeting with him by saying, "The President told me I should talk to
you."
Intelligence sources told CNN
that many people inside the CIA were very uncomfortable with the
meeting. Binney said Pompeo concluded the meeting by telling him he
would like Binney to meet with the FBI and the NSA as well.
He
said he told Pompeo, "the entire intelligence community needs to tell
the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth to the American
public."
Binney added: "I think he took it in."
The
President himself repeatedly questioned Russia's involvement during the
campaign. During the first presidential debate on September 26, 2016,
Trump said, "I don't think anybody knows it was Russia that hacked the
DNC."
Trump continued, "I mean, it
could be Russia, but it could also be China. It could also be lots of
other people. It also could be somebody sitting on their bed who weighs
400 pounds, OK?"
And Trump has
continued to express doubts about Russian interference since taking
office. During an appearance on CBS's "Face the Nation," he said, "If
you don't catch a hacker, OK, in the act, it's very hard to say who did
the hacking. With that being said, I'll go along with Russia. Could've
been China, could've been a lot of different groups."
In October, Pompeo prompted a clarification from
the CIA when he said in a speech that the US intelligence community
determined that Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election did
not affect its outcome. Pompeo had commented that "the intelligence
community's assessment is that the Russian meddling that took place did
not affect the outcome of the election."
Soon
after Pompeo's comment, the CIA issued a statement from spokesman Dean
Boyd, who said, "the intelligence assessment with regard to Russian
election meddling has not changed, and the director did not intend to
suggest that it had."
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