Steve Benen is a producer for 'The Rachel Maddow Show,' the editor of MaddowBlog and an MSNBC political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of 'The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics.'
Much of Donald Trump’s political career has been defined by weird conspiracy theories about Barack Obama. The Republican, for example, championed a racist conspiracy theory about Obama’s birthplace, and while in office, Trump accused the Democrat of, among other things, “wiretapping” Trump Tower in New York. These claims were, of course, utterly bonkers, and common sense suggests the former GOP president should’ve learned from these experiences.
Greg Murphy of North Carolina said during a Fox Business interview that he also believes that Biden is merely “a puppet for a progressive left committee, as it were, headed by Obama.” Last year, Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo also suggested that the former Democratic president might be secretly “running the country,” to which Republican Sen.
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