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Daily Mail
8 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Trump cronies claim there's 'evidence' Joe Biden is a clone after president shares wild conspiracies
The online MAGAverse is ablaze with claims that Joe Biden was executed in 2020 and replaced by a clone after President Donald Trump boosted the wild conspiracy. Trump's internet sleuths are scouring images and video of the former president for signs he was a robotic clone. Raven Harrison, a U.S. House candidate from Florida, believes she found evidence that Biden's face is actually a synthetic mask being operated by a robotic clone underneath. Some online claim there were actors wearing Biden 'CIA masks' while others note a suspicious lack of veins as a sign there was circuitry underneath a human skin facade. Proof internet detectives provided for the actor theory is that Biden was standing a few inches taller than he once was prior to winning the 2020 presidential election. One said Biden was 'clearly' wearing a rubber mask. Trump amplified the wild conspiracy theory when he published a social media post to his Truth Social account that suggested Biden died in 2020 and a clone carried out his single presidential term. 'There is no #JoeBiden - executed in 2020. #Biden clones doubles & robotic engineered soulless mindless entities are what you see,' wrote the user named llijh. Trump didn't add his own commentary to the claims, but his interaction with the post only gave air to what some users already were discussing online. 'Trump just told the world what we have been saying the entire time. The real Joe Biden was takenn (sic) out a long time ago,' one pro-Trump X user wrote. They added: 'You are watching a scripted movie, with actors, clones, and AI generated footage to wake people up the demonic cult and the plans they had to destroy the world.' Some analyzed his height compared to other world leaders he met with during his four years in office. Others zoomed in on his face to show changes they observed in his skin, eyes and ear lobes. Last month, Biden's personal office announced that the former president was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer. The dire prognosis led to speculation over the timeline of the diagnosis considering Biden was likely screened for prostate issues when he was in office – and medical experts claim the cancer would have been caught before reaching such an advanced stage, if that were the case. A Fox News host attempted to justify Trump's push on the clone conspiracy, claiming he was likely 'trolling.' Host John Roberts brought on Independent Women Features editor in chief Kaylee McGhee White during his Monday program. She questioned who was running the country over the last four years. Roberts began the discussion by claiming he's 'sure' Trump 'was just trolling' with the clone post. 'Well, I would hope so,' White replied. 'But I think, also, it gets to the real heart of this scandal, which is who in the world was president for the past four years if it wasn't Joe Biden? Was it a clone? Was it a cabal of White House officials?' 'And I'll say, one of the revealing things about Alex Thompson and Jake Tapper's book is that, apparently, there were more than 100 people within the White House and in the administration who were well aware of Biden's true mental state the entire time; and yet we still don't have a single name of the people who were making decisions on Biden's behalf,' she added of the latest book on the cover-up of Biden's decline.
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Donald Trump's Latest Truth Social Conspiracy Theory Repost About Joe Biden Being Replaced By "Clone Doubles" Is Going Viral, And It's Deeply Unserious
In the last few weeks, former President Joe Biden has seemingly been on Donald Trump's mind A LOT. Earlier this week, Trump went on a mini-rant in the Oval Office, calling Biden "vicious," and most recently, he took to Truth Social to repost a strange conspiracy theory about the former president. On Saturday night, Trump took to Truth Social to repost a conspiracy theory from a pro-MAGA account about Biden supposedly being "executed in 2020" and replaced by "clone doubles." The original post reads: "There is no #JoeBiden - executed in 2020. #Biden clones doubles & robotic engineered soulless mindless entities are what you see. >#Democrats dont know the difference," followed by dozens of political hashtags. According to Rolling Stone, this same account has posted other conspiracies about the 2020 election being stolen via "cyber warfare." Related: 18 Major Global Events That American Media Is Ignoring Right Now, And Why They Actually Matter To Us Far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer (who reportedly traveled with Trump during the 2024 campaign trail) reacted to Trump's conspiracy repost with a laughing emoji. Many others did NOT find the sitting president reposting unfounded conspiracy theories amusing, and weren't afraid to express it: Related: "I Am So Torn With What You Are Doing" — 11 Posts From MAGA Business Owners Who Are So Close To Getting It "Trump believes anything that attacks his perceived enemies and makes him feel better," one person wrote. "We live in the most ridiculous possible world," another person wrote. "If Biden had said something like this, his entire cabinet would have invoked the 25th within the hour, and rightfully so," Reddit user Nerevarine91 wrote, referring to the Constitution's 25th Amendment that allows the president to be removed from office if deemed "unfit to serve." "This is such a degradation of America," Reddit user Medlarmarmduke agreed. What are your thoughts? Let us know in the comments below. Also in In the News: People Can't Believe This "Disgusting" Donald Trump Jr. Post About Joe Biden's Cancer Diagnosis Is Real Also in In the News: Miss USA's 2024 "National Costume" Has Been Revealed, And It's Obviously An Interesting Choice Also in In the News: One Body Language Expert Spotted Something Very Telling When Donald Trump "Held His Own Hand" At His Recent Press Conference
Fox News
3 days ago
- General
- Fox News
Behar says Dem effort to reclaim men is a 'waste of money,' suggests 'teaching them to not be such sexists'
Co-hosts of ABC's "The View" on Friday feuded over how the Democratic Party should change its game plan after losing male voters. After their decisive defeat in November, Democrats are still figuring out how they should change their strategy and move forward as a party. The New York Times recently published a report claiming that Democrats are spending $20 million on a study called "Speaking with American Men: A Strategic Plan." The study is a project to "study the syntax, language and content that gains attention and virality in these spaces" of male voters. Co-host Joy Behar scoffed at the idea, deriding it as "20 million bucks just to talk to boys." "You know what I think? I think it's a waste of money. Maybe these guys should spend their money on teaching men to not be such sexists," Behar said, as the audience applauded. "But the stats don't bear that out," co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin said, arguing that Trump has done better with multiple demographics across races and sexes than his Republican predecessors did. Behar suggested this was merely because he was "running against a woman." "You think Democrats that were with Biden in 2020 left to be with Trump because they're sexist?" Griffin asked. "I don't know the reason, but it's very suspicious," Behar replied. Other co-hosts argued that Democrats have indeed alienated male voters. Griffin mocked the idea of appealing to authenticity by hiring analysts and strategists to analyze how men speak, suggesting instead, "What made Joe Rogan or Theo Von or some of these manosphere guys huge was there's a level of authenticity." Meanwhile, she noted Democrats not only have an "authenticity problem" but recalled that "Joe Rogan was a Bernie Bro. Democrats lost him. They had their own Joe Rogan and then alienated him with policies." She added that men want to be able to speak about the issues they face as a group, particularly the phenomenon of men falling behind, without being accused of sexism or excluding women. Haines brought up the appeal of both Trump and the manosphere. "What drove people to this manosphere was people were saying, 'It's okay to be a man, you have value.' I think the language around men with 'toxic masculinity' were sometimes misunderstood to make men the problem."
Yahoo
3 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
Teaching Trump's 2020 election lies turns civics into propaganda
This fall, if you're a high school student in Oklahoma, you will be taught in history class that the Democrats stole the 2020 presidential election from Donald Trump. Though disproven by numerous recounts and over 60 court cases in multiple states, the Republican-led Oklahoma Department of Education is requiring that this debunked conspiracy theory be taught as fact. Yes, boys and girls, we have now reached that point in fascist dogma where we start rewriting history to serve the agenda of Dear Leader. Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy ride. For four-and-a-half years now, Trump and his disciples have been claiming the 2020 election was rigged and that he won. And yet, in all that time, no one − not Trump, not Tucker Carlson, not Sean Hannity, not Steve Bannon, not even the MyPillow Guy (Mike Lindell) − has ever been able to explain, step-by-step, how it was done. As former New York City Mayor and disbarred lawyer Rudy Giuliani admitted to the judge in one of the 60-odd court filings lost by the Trump campaign: "We have no evidence, but we have lots of theories... ." Very well. Let's examine some of those theories. On the face of it, this seems very believable. Every day, we read about cyber-crooks hacking into and commandeering computers. But voting machines are not the same as personal computers. They are simple tabulating machines. They have no modems and are not connected to the internet, so it's impossible to hack them. It would be like trying to call someone who doesn't have a phone. (This includes people voting multiple times, dead people or illegal immigrants voting, or suitcases full of fraudulent ballots being slipped into the counting centers.) Fifty years ago, before government records were computerized, it might have been possible to slip a few dead or fake names onto voting lists. But now, cross-referencing of death certificates, property transfers and other government documents allows for voter rolls to be cleaned up daily. And it should be obvious to anyone who has ever voted just how ridiculous Trump's claims are when he says, "People are changing their hats and coats and voting over and over again." Elections aren't raffles. You can't just walk into any precinct on Election Day and fill out a ballot. You have to register first, and give your name and address and birth certificate or other identification information (all of which is cross-referenced with tax records, death records, etc.), after which you are assigned a specific precinct where you have to vote. (Your mail-in ballot also goes to that specific precinct.) So if a precinct with 2,000 registered voters has 3,000 votes cast (or even 2001), it would be immediately obvious that something was amiss, and an investigation would be launched. In 2020, not a single precinct in the entire country reported more votes tallied than there were registered voters in that precinct. This is one of the sillier theories, for it's the software (the program with the ballot on it), not the machine itself, that would have to be rigged, and the ballots are created by the various states. The very notion that any multi-billion-dollar company would risk utter ruin by taking part in a conspiracy that could be discovered by any computer expert, is so ridiculous that FOX News hosts mocked the allegations in their private texts as "insane lies" and "mind blowingly nuts," yet nonetheless promoted the lie on air (as did Newsmax and OAN). All three networks have subsequently paid out massive defamation settlements to both Dominion and Smartmatic Corporations, manufacturers of the voting machines. In short, none of the 2020 election fraud conspiracies stand up to even the most cursory examination. They are just lies spewed out for Trump's loyal supporters who want to believe them. George Orwell warned of the consequences when a society values ideology over truth, and no matter how much Oklahoma Republicans want to believe Trump's "Big Lie," altering history is never a good idea. Just ask Winston Smith. Keith Thompson lives in Fort Thomas, Ky., and is a historian and author of '2024,' a political thriller set against the background of the 2024 election. This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Trump's Big Lie is now part of Oklahoma schools curriculum | Opinion
The Independent
6 days ago
- General
- The Independent
Trump to consider pardon for group convicted of plotting to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer
President Donald Trump says he will consider pardoning the extremists convicted in the failed plot to kidnap Michigan's Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020. 'I'm going to look at it. I will take a look at it. It's been brought to my attention,' Trump told reporters in the Oval Office Wednesday. 'I did watch the trial. It looked to me like somewhat of a railroad job, I'll be honest with you. It looked to me like some people said some stupid things, you know, they were drinking, and I think they said some stupid things,' Trump continued. Fourteen men were charged in the failed kidnapping plot, carried out on the eve of the 2020 election. Of those, nine were convicted, including Barry Croft Jr., 49, and Adam Fox, 42, the ringleaders of the scheme. Croft was sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison, while Fox received 16 for the failed kidnapping plot, which involved taking the governor from her vacation home at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic and starting a civil war. Whitmer was never harmed in the incident, but the U.S. Justice Department's new pardon attorney also said he would take a 'hard look' at the two men serving the longest terms for the plot. Whitmer's office did not immediately respond to The Independent's request for comment. Whitmer has strayed from the path of Trump avoidance taken by most Democrats since November and has appeared alongside the president several times. The Democrat, who many consider a 2028 presidential contender, has now shared a stage with the Republican president in Michigan weeks after visiting the Oval Office – though both appearances seemingly caught her off guard at the time. Trump started their Oval Office appearance, which seemed to catch Whitmer off-guard as she was there to talk about the impact of his tariff plan, by saying the governor was a "very good person" who has done an "excellent job" She later told the Associated Press that she wasn't thinking about politics: 'My job is to do the right thing for the people of Michigan. I'm not thinking about anything beyond that, and I know it's hard for people to get their head around.' 'I had to be there because this was a big, important thing for the state of Michigan,' she said. 'Now, he is going to go off to the rally and say a lot of things I disagree with, that I'll fight against, and that's fine, but, you know, my job is to do everything I can for the people of Michigan.' Meanwhile, Trump has issued some high-profile pardons in recent days, including pardoning imprisoned reality stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, whose show Chrisley Knows Best ran from 2014 to 2023. The multimillionaire couple tax evasion and bank fraud in 2022.
