From the start, Donald Trump's political rise has been fueled by various conspiracy theories.
In 2011, the billionaire took his first steps on the political scene by recycling the theory according to which Barack Obama is not really an American citizen and thus questioning his eligibility.
But it is above all to his
“anti-system”
character
that Trump owes his popularity in conspiratorial circles.
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Presenting himself as the adversary of the traditional political class, the financial and intellectual elites, the mainstream media and the federal bureaucracy, he thus indirectly benefits from the most varied theories aimed at explaining reality through plots hatched in the shadows.
Trump himself frequently alludes to mysterious theses.
He recently hinted that his opponent Joe Biden was surrounded by powerful people
"acting in the shadows,"
or alluded to a plane full of black-dressed thugs ready to unleash violence during
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