Jane and Don Horn in Greensboro
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GREENSBORO — Many supporters Donald Trump supporters said Friday that they already knew what he has started to claim on the campaign trail: The media is working together with Hillary Clinton and elite corporate leaders in a game that is rigged to defeat their candidate and the working class.
“It ain’t just because Trump says it” that the conspiracy is real, said Curtis Essick, of Greensboro, outside the venue. “Trump’s just the one who’s finally put it all together.”
“The emails show that,” added Essick, referring to emails apparently from Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta, that were published by Wikileaks this week. (The US government has said the Russian government has been behind many leaks with the intent to undermine the election.)
Curtis Essick
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On Thursday, Trump said that the leaked emails show “Clinton meets in secret with international banks to plot the destruction of US sovereignty in order to enrich these global financial powers, her special interest friends and her donors.”
He added that she has "deployed" the press against him, a claim he repeated Thursday.
“No paper is more corrupt than the failing New York Times,” Trump said in Greensboro. “The largest shareholder in the Times is Carlos Slim. Now, Carlos Slim, as you know, comes from Mexico.”
He added, “He’s given many millions of dollars to the Clintons and their initiative...so Carlos Slim, largest donor of the paper, from Mexico.”
The conspiracy that there is a global system controlling banks, politics, and the media is an anti-Semitic one, though none of Trump's supporter's at Friday's rally said they believed Jewish people were behind what Trump was describing.
Trump has fanned the conspiracy line amid widespread outcry by fellow Republicans and others upset by comments he made about forcing himself on women in a 2005 hot mic recording. With a growing list of women coming forward to tell stories of Trump’s alleged sexual assaults, he unveiled the aggressive new line of attack Thursday at rallies in Florida and Ohio.
Trump accused the women of fabricating their stories as part of a vast, global conspiracy that wraps in Hillary Clinton, the global business elite, bankers and the news media — all dead-set, he said, on “destroying our movement.”
Trump continued the theme Friday, though in more measured tones, asking the crowd if they really thought he would have forced himself on “that” — referring to a woman who told the New York Times he had groped her on an airplane decades earlier. He dismissed another woman, who told the Washington Post that he groped her at a New York City nightclub, saying the woman described him sitting alone, but he rarely sits alone.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump arrives to speak at a campaign rally, Friday, Oct. 14, 2016, in Greensboro, N.C. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
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Outside the venue, some supporters described the situation more cautiously.
“I think that companies that can afford to will ‘pay to play,’” said Jane Horn, of Greensboro, who attended with her husband, Don. “But I wouldn’t label it a conspiracy.”
Robin Renée, a retired social services worker handing out CD singles of her original, Trump-inspired song, “Make America Great Again,” said she already understood before Trump said it that Clinton and the media are in cahoots.
“I’m just glad he’s letting everybody know what’s really going on in Washington,” she said. “It’s just so obvious” that the women speaking out against Trump are being paid by Hillary Clinton’s campaign, she said.
“I think she’s working it — she’s going to do whatever it takes to be president,” Renée said.
Proof of the conspiracy is apparent in the way the media focuses on negative stories about Trump, said a local resident who declined to give his name. He said there’s never anything negative about Clinton in the news, but “they’ll run with any improper accusation [about Trump] with no merit, blowing it out of proportion,” he said.
While the news media is picking apart Trump, the man said, “the world is going to hell in a handbasket.”
Asked if he thought that Jews, as a whole, might have something to do with this alleged conspiracy, the man demurred: “It’s stuff I don’t have the facts on, and I don’t want to talk about things I don’t have the facts on,” he said.
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