RE: draft -- conspiracy theory release

From:FreundlichC@dnc.org To: MirandaL@dnc.org, WalkerE@dnc.org, PaustenbachM@dnc.org, WalshT@dnc.org Date: 2016-05-03 13:23 Subject: RE: draft -- conspiracy theory release

Luis swooping in with the Cuban history!! Great, I'll send this around. While I will note that Cruz's father was in fact a militant who fought the Batista regime (which Fidel Castro defeated) and it would not be unusual for him to be caught up in the ugly web of Cuban militants with questionable histories (just look at the cabinet in the basement, one of the Watergate burglars was...Cuban<http://watergate.info/burglary/burglars>)...with plenty of other examples including a guy who blew up a plane and was basically given safe refuge in Texas<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Posada_Carriles>...not to mention those who were involved in the ugly Central American wars in the 80s... I think this is a fun hit. I made edits to dispute each claim. [SigDems]<http://www.democrats.org/>Luis Miranda, Communications Director Democratic National Committee 202-863-8148 - MirandaL@dnc.org<mailto:MirandaL@dnc.org> - @MiraLuisDC<https://www.twitter.com/MiraLuisDC> W my edits Could use the Eric Walker touch Dangerous Donald's Conspiracy Theories: "All I know is what is on the internet." This morning on Fox and Friends, Donald Trump accused<file:///\\mydocs\documents1$\freundlichc\Dhttp:\www.politico.com\blogs\2016-gop-primary-live-updates-and-results\2016\05\trump-ted-cruz-father-222730%3flo=ap_a1ocuments\Cruz%20Resume%20DRAFT.docx> Ted Cruz's father of helping with JFK's assassination - "parroting a National Enquirer story claiming that Rafael Cruz was pictured with Lee Harvey Oswald handing out pro-Fidel Castro pamphlets in New Orleans in 1963." So While we're on the subject of the GOP's presumptive standard bearer just spouting nonsense he reads on the internet or in the tabloids, here are some of the other conspiracy theories and facts that the great mind of that Donald Trump's "good brain" felt it was necessary to entertain: is gathering from the tabloids and the internet: * Donald Trump speculates that Antonin Scalia was murdered<http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/01/us/politics/donald-trump-conspiracy-theories.html?_r=0>. He wasn't. * Trump not knowing questioning whether<http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-primaries/247473-trump-i-dont-know-if-obama-was-born-in-us> President Obama was born in America, and then sending investigators<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trumps-history-raising-birther-questions-president-obama/story?id=33861832> to Hawaii to look into it - still cited as one of the greatest<http://www.theweek.co.uk/conspiracy-theories/62926/the-top-ten-conspiracy-theories-in-the-world> conspiracy theories of all time. The President was born in Hawaii. * Trump thinks<https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/449525268529815552> that vaccination causes autism. It doesn't. * Trump claims<http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/nov/22/donald-trump/fact-checking-trumps-claim-thousands-new-jersey-ch/> that thousands of American Muslims cheered when the World Trade Center collapsed. Didn't happen. * Trump thinks<https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/265895292191248385> that the "concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive." Nope. * Trump repeatedly telling<http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/feb/23/donald-trump/donald-trump-cites-dubious-legend-about-gen-pershi/> a hoax story about an American general executing Muslim prisoners with bullets covered in pig's blood. Also not true. * After it being told it wasn't true, Trump doubling-down<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-protester-isis-hoax_us_56e57d2be4b0860f99d951ab> on his claim that a man who tried to rush on stage at one of his rallies was associated with ISIS - because "all I know is what is on the internet." So if we're to believe the Internet, we're still waiting on Trump to address these other pressing issues of our time: "facts" that Dangerous Donald has probably considered from reading the internet and National Enquirer. We are still waiting for him to weigh in on them: * Whether the United States landing on the moon was a hoax<http://listverse.com/2012/12/28/10-reasons-the-moon-landings-could-be-a-hoax/>. * Agenda 21<http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/13/agenda-21-the-un-conspiracy-that-just-won-t-die.html>, a theory embraced by Iowa Senator Joni Ernst<http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/why-chemtrail-conspiracy-real>, that will be "the most dangerous threat to American sovereignty," will bring "new Dark Ages of pain and misery yet unknown to mankind," and "abolish golf courses, grazing pastures and paved roads." * Whether the Beatles never existed<http://thebeatlesneverexisted.com/>. * Whether Britney Spears was a staffer<http://popdust.com/2015/09/17/britney-spears-george-bush-payroll/#slide1> in the George W. Bush White House. * Whether The Earth is still flat<http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/cms/>. * Chemtrail, which claims that trails that left in the sky by high-flying aircraft are chemical or biological agents deliberately sprayed for sinister purposes<http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/why-chemtrail-conspiracy-real>.