CNN reporter Hadas Gold on Wednesday took a hatchet to Trump allies' claims that the criminal conviction of President Joe Biden's son were part of a broader plot by Biden to cover up even worse crimes.
Many observers have said that Hunter Biden's conviction massively undercuts former President Donald Trump's claims that President Biden has "weaponized" the Department of Justice against him.
Because of this, many Trump allies have claimed that Biden essentially sacrificed his own son in order to justify his true goal of jailing his Republican rival.
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"You go further into the right-wing media sphere and you get... what they say is essentially a larger conspiracy here even though this was a guilty verdict," explained Gold. "This goes to show how the far fringes of the pro-Trump media world, they have drifted into sort of 'automatic conspiracy theories,' where the default is conspiracy theory when the news does not justify their talking points."
Host Brianna Keilar laughed at this analogy and imagined Trump supporters pressing an "automatic conspiracy button" whenever world events don't go their way.
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