The Conspiracy Guru Behind Donald Trump

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4.5 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Jacob Weisberg talks to Jon Ronson, author of the new Amazon Kindle single The Elephant in the Room: A Journey into the Trump Campaign and the "Alt-Right," about Alex Jones – the radio host who feeds Donald Trump his conspiracy theories. Panoply Survey We want you to tell us about the podcasts you enjoy, and how often you listen to them. So we created a survey that takes just a couple of minutes to complete. If you fill it out, you'll help Panoply to make great podcasts about the things you love. And things you didn’t even know you loved. To fill out the survey, just go to www.megaphone.fm/survey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.2	Whether or not that was a real certificate because a lot of people question it, I certainly
0:08.3	question it.
0:09.3	Now what we have to do is find out whether or not it was real.
0:11.8	His father was with Lee Harvey Oswald, prior to Oswald being shot.
0:18.1	Not a believer in global warming.
0:19.6	I'm not a believer in man-made global warming.
0:22.3	Do you think there was a Hillary Clinton double?
0:24.3	Yeah.
0:25.3	I think anything's possible to come to doubles.
0:27.3	Hello and welcome to Trumpcast, the show about the man who told Howard Stern that he probably
0:41.6	could have nailed Princess Diana.
0:43.9	Donald Trump.
0:45.3	I'm Jacob Weisberg.
0:47.3	So Trump has set a lot of ridiculous things, but some of them are ridiculous in an especially
0:52.2	kooky way.
0:53.9	The Barack Obama was born in Kenya and that his birth certificate was a fake.
0:58.6	That thousands of Muslims in New Jersey cheered and celebrated on September 11.
1:03.6	The Ted Cruz's father was a friend of Lee Harvey Oswald and played a role in the Kennedy
1:08.2	assassination.
1:09.2	That the California dried as a fake.
1:11.8	That Vin Foster's death was fishy.
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