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The Trump-Putin theory on Syria that can't be ruled out Lawrence O'Donnell lays out how Donald Trump's credibility problems have made an impossible scenario possible. David Corn, Rick Wilson, and Indira Lakshmanan join. Duration: 15:25
Posted By: Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
Sunday, April 9th 2017 at 6:18PM
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You people are disgusting. You people are an absolute embarrasment to America.
Sunday, April 9th 2017 at 7:20PM
Steve Williams
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What are you crying about this time, STEVEN?
Monday, April 10th 2017 at 5:07PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fi...
volley of U.S. cruise missiles had barely been launched into Syria before the Internet filled up with fact-free theories about the real reason for an international crisis.
A popular one on the right-most fringes: The U.S. government actually carried out the chemical weapons massacre in Syria last week — a “false flag” to trick President Trump into retaliating, thus entangling himself in a foreign war.
A slightly more convoluted strain on the left: Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the chemical weapons massacre to help Trump — distracting Americans from an investigation into Trump's campaign ties to Russia by provoking the missile strike.
That theory — evidence-free — was laid out on a small anti-Trump website shortly after the missile strike.
But it went mainstream Friday night, when Lawrence O'Donnell advanced similar speculation on his MSNBC show, “The Last Word.”
[‘Even the liberals were all over this’: Bill Maher disgusted by the cable news response to Syria]
“Wouldn't it be nice,” O'Donnell asked a nodding, smiling Rachel Maddow, “if it was just completely, totally, absolutely impossible to suspect that Vladimir Putin orchestrated what happened in Syria this week — so that his friend in the White House could have a big night with missiles and all the praises he's picked up over the past 24 hours?”
The theory was impossible to rule out, O'Donnell said, because of the Trump campaign's ties to the Russian government.
A few minutes later, the host elaborated on his theory under banner text: “Wag The Dog?” — recalling a similar conspiracy theory that President Bill Clinton launched missiles in 1998 to distract from his own scandal.
Tuesday, April 11th 2017 at 1:28AM
Steve Williams
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Lawrence himself pointed out this story on his show tonight as he ran for cover.
Tuesday, April 11th 2017 at 1:43AM
Steve Williams
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O'Donnell didn't offer any evidence on his theory, promising only that “you won't hear ... proof that the scenario I've just outlined is impossible.”
What O'Donnell did hear, if he followed the reaction to his show, was derision from across the political spectrum.
Tuesday, April 11th 2017 at 1:50AM
Steve Williams
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O'Donald is not the story, the material is.
Thursday, April 13th 2017 at 10:21PM
Dea. Ron Gray Sr.
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