President Donald Trump is being dragged over the coals for promoting a deranged conspiracy theory about Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden murdering a group of elite Navy SEALs.
Trump this week retweeted a conspiracy theorist who claims that Biden and former President Barack Obama murdered members of SEAL Team 6 to cover up for the fact that they didn’t actually kill Osama bin Laden in 2011, and instead only took out his body double.
The president promoted the conspiracy theory even though Robert O’Neill, the SEAL Team 6 member who claims to be the one who fired the shot that killed bin Laden, said that the theory is nonsense.
CNN Jake Tapper responded on Twitter, calling the president’s tweet “lunatic and hideous.”
“I admit I’m grateful that I have retained the capacity to be shocked and disgusted that the president is pushing a deranged conspiracy theory that the SEAL Team 6 heroes who killed OBL didn’t actually kill OBL,” Tapper wrote. “What a lunatic and hideous lie to be pushing,” he added.
I admit I’m grateful that i have retained the capacity to be shocked and disgusted that the president is pushing a deranged conspiracy theory that the SEAL Team 6 heroes who killed OBL didn’t actually kill OBL.
What a lunatic and hideous lie to be pushing.
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 15, 2020
