MSNBC host's conspiracy theory: What if Putin planned the Syrian chemical attack to help Trump?

[DonViejo]

By Avi Selk April 8 at 2:33 PM

A 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.

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[malaise]

1. What if the Con planned it himself? n/t

[Panich52]

2. Made me wonder if O'Donnel had read my Twitter feed

[tallahasseedem]

3. I believe it was done to try and distract from...

the investigation. Putin does not need this investigation to uncover what has been going on.

[AnnaLee]

4. I imagine that this crossed all of our minds. I don't find it far-fetched for the people involved.

My husband and I both independently wondered the same thing.

[R B Garr]

5. It's a proven fact that Russia aided Trump to get

elected. So this isn't all that much of a conspiracy to wonder how else they will help him.

[KittyWampus]

6. It was a symbolic act with zero actual effect. And it wiped the traitor's Russia problem off the map

It is absolutely impossible to be too cynical with Trump and Bannon.

They have proven they don't care about norms, the rule of law or even the welfare of the country.

[R B Garr]

10. +1000, and their cohort, Putin, has proven he will pile bodies

up for his political purposes, so gassing civilians is not out of the question.

[KittyWampus]

12. I suspect that Bannon and Trump may end up with same calculation (piles of bodies)

[LakeArenal]

7. I think they are all in it...

Bunch of sabre rattling billionaires. Phallic symbol war mongers who never had to do the dirty work of war. Look at the shiny object while we rape and pillage the world..

[Initech]

11. I've been saying that for quite a while now.

The reason why the scumbags aren't going through with the investigation is that they're all guilty. This coup was able to go through with the help of everyone from the top to the bottom. And I keep saying too that it's like peeling an onion. The more the layers are peeled off, the more it stinks, and the more likely you are to cry as a result.

[KittyWampus]

8. From Trump's own twitter feed:

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[Wounded Bear]

9. Lawrence's point was not so much that the idea was real...

the point is that it is entirely too believable. We never would have considered something so far fetched with any previous President, though Dubya came close.

Completely believable about Trump, mainly because we all know Trump isn't really astute enough to dream up a plan like that.