Alcindor: Trump Is ‘Someone Who Likes To Traffic in Conspiracy Theories’ and People Around Will ‘Echo’ His Behavior’

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ALCINDOR: "I think the key really is the follow-up questions and the idea that Attorney General Barr could not provide one single basis for why he believed there was spying going on in the Trump campaign. And I also want to point out the Devin Nunes comments, the idea that Devin Nunes is saying that James Comey, because he was writing contemporaneous notes on a meeting that the President asked him to attend was somehow spying on the President. That's not spying. That's what everybody, all the sources I talked to in the FBI, they’re taught to take notes and document the things that happen. And then you have this idea that now you have a sitting member of Congress saying that Robert Mueller was spying on the President when, in fact, he was carrying out an investigation that the American people were paying for. But I think it goes back to this idea that President Trump as a core of who he is is in some ways someone who likes to traffic in conspiracy theories. He started his political life by saying that President Obama might not have been born in this country. Then during the Republican nomination process, he was talking about Ted Cruz’s father possibly being involved in the murder of President Kennedy. So I think what you have is someone who has seen conspiracy theories work to his political benefit and that’s why you’re going to see not only the President but the people around him and people who want to stay in his orbit are going to really echo his own behavior."