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The shit gets wilder and wilder, and yet I know there'd still be a dwindling percentage of people that believes it.
Like, eventually the claim is so absurd, it's hard to fathom any individual to not immediately disregard it. But even then, there'd be some dumb ass saying, "Ya know what? It's just as Trump says, this is because Thomas Jefferson was a gay panda robot that still controls us from his statue and the Dems are protecting him!"
I think that there's some pretty heavy lifting done by self-segregation into news sources. There are a relatively-small number of Republican-leaning sources.
https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2025/06/10/the-political-gap-in-americans-news-sources/
Fox News only really has competition on the further right for TV news, from Newsmax and One America News Network. I'm actually kind of surprised that there hasn't been a challenger from the center-right side.
One could argue that the sources you listed (broadcast and cable news networks, major outlets like the New York Times, etc.), are the center-right.
^ This. The center-right is quite well-represented within the media landscape.
thats why they have to constantly repeat it on fox and grifters, the victim did this to deserve it, 100 different ways.
Most of the people who believe it are stuck in their own echo chamber where anything Trump says is gospel and questioning him is blasphemy.