Donie O’Sullivan: Maybe Trump ‘Doesn’t Fully Grasp How Much He’s Stoked the Conspiracy Theory Space Online for Years’

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O’SULLIVAN: “Yeah. Caitlin, it‘s I mean, it‘s absolutely shocking for them. It really is shocking. And I was trying to think of this today in terms of, you know, in MAGA media, there are so many conspiracy theories and objects of fascination come and go. But every day, pretty much for years, you‘ll always hear people on those channels, on those platforms talk about two things. One is the false claim that the 2020 election was stolen. They are still talking and obsessing about that. And secondly, is the Epstein files and everything to do with that. So so Trump coming out and saying, just forget about this I think it‘s such so much of a shock that it would be equivalent of him coming out and admitting that the 2020 election wasn‘t stolen and that conspiracy theory was a hoax. And look, Trump is obviously a master manipulator of media, of social media and and either he is sort of playing dumb here and hoping that this Epstein stuff goes away, or maybe he just genuinely doesn‘t fully grasp how how much he has stoked the conspiracy theory space online for years. I mean, I remember a couple of weeks before the 2020 election, he did an NBC News town hall. He refused to disavow qanon then and since then, Media Matters. The liberal watchdog group, said that he has posted more than 1000 times on Truth Social, amplifying qanon accounts. And so every time people see those sort of accounts, they view that, rightly or wrongly, but they view that as him endorsing this conspiracy theory or Epstein files all that sort of stuff. So that is why this is such a big deal for them yeah.”