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The White House has just tightened up the list of those who can be present when President of the United States of America Donald Trump makes a phone call to a foreign head of state. That tied in nicely with a post I made on another site about conspiracy theories. Here it is in full.
"Conspiracy theories [CT] are unusually hard to prove false. Based as they are on coincidental happenstance [Mr. Rudolph Giuliani was in Oshkosh, Wisconsin during the same month as ...], the defenders of a theory can easily cook up another equally vague 'explanation' for any attempt at debunkification.
"To show just how easy it is to create a CT, here's one that I just thought up.
"The telephone conversation between President of the United States of America Donald Trump and the newly-elected Ukrainian president, Mr. Volodymyr Zelensky was not recorded in Washington. All we have to go on is a reconstruction of it. That reconstruction had to come from those who actually heard it. All of them are people hand-picked by President Trump, probably for their loyalty to him.* Meanwhile, President Zelensky, in Ukraine, did record the call. He is now able to hold that over the head of President Trump. We saw how quickly the aid was released, right?
"* We've learned in the past couple of days that the White House is tightening even further the list of people who can be privy to a presidential phone call with a foreign head of state. Now we know why.
"You too can start a CT. It's really easy to do."
"Conspiracy theories [CT] are unusually hard to prove false. Based as they are on coincidental happenstance [Mr. Rudolph Giuliani was in Oshkosh, Wisconsin during the same month as ...], the defenders of a theory can easily cook up another equally vague 'explanation' for any attempt at debunkification.
"To show just how easy it is to create a CT, here's one that I just thought up.
"The telephone conversation between President of the United States of America Donald Trump and the newly-elected Ukrainian president, Mr. Volodymyr Zelensky was not recorded in Washington. All we have to go on is a reconstruction of it. That reconstruction had to come from those who actually heard it. All of them are people hand-picked by President Trump, probably for their loyalty to him.* Meanwhile, President Zelensky, in Ukraine, did record the call. He is now able to hold that over the head of President Trump. We saw how quickly the aid was released, right?
"* We've learned in the past couple of days that the White House is tightening even further the list of people who can be privy to a presidential phone call with a foreign head of state. Now we know why.
"You too can start a CT. It's really easy to do."
