This morning on Fox & Friends, Donald Trump not so subtly returned to the subject that launched his political career — outrageous conspiracy theories about Barack Obama.
Trump said there were two possible reasons the gun massacre took place in Orlando. The first possibility was that Obama is “not tough” and “not smart” and therefore incapable of stopping terrorist attacks.
The other scenario, according to Trump, is that Obama is fully capable of stopping terrorist attacks but “has something else in mind.” In other words, Obama is purposefully allowing terrorists to kill people in the United States to pursue a hidden agenda.
Trump emphasized this second theory. “The something else in mind, people can’t believe it,” Trump said, “There is something going on. It’s inconceivable.”
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Trump made a similar point earlier in the interview: “He doesn’t get it or he gets it better than anybody understands.”
Trump’s statements are fully consistent with his long-held conspiracy theory that Obama is a secret Muslim, born in Kenya, who forged his birth certificate in order to become president.
“He doesn’t have a birth certificate. He may have one, but there’s something on that, maybe religion, maybe it says he is a Muslim,” Trump said in 2011.
In 2012, Trump tweeted that Obama was “born in Kenya.”
“Why does the press protect him? Is this another Watergate?” Trump asked.
Trump is now the Republican presidential nominee but has not changed his views. Asked last year if he now accepted that Obama “was born in the United States, is not Muslim.”
“I don’t know. I really don’t know,” Trump replied.