WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump shared an outlandish conspiracy theory Saturday night on social media saying former President Joe Biden had been “executed in 2020” and replaced by a robotic clone, the latest example of the president amplifying dark, false material to his millions of followers.
Trump reposted a fringe rant that another user had made on the president’s social media platform, Truth Social, just after 10 p.m. Saturday. The White House did not respond to requests for comment on the post about Biden, whom Trump has targeted for criticism almost daily since the start of his second term.
The president has blamed Biden for all manner of societal ills and assailed his mental acuity, including with the specious theory that Biden’s aides used an autopen to enact policies and issue pardons without Biden’s knowledge. (Trump has acknowledged that his administration uses the autopen system on occasion.)
Trump has long had a penchant for sharing debunked or baseless theories online, but his embrace of conspiracies is not limited to social media. He has also elevated false claims inside the White House and surrounded himself with Cabinet officials promoting such theories.
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