Joe Scarborough: Autocrats Like Trump Create Conspiracy Theories

EXCERPT:

SCARBOROUGH: "And we’ve actually had this written about a couple weeks ago, Anne Applebaum has written about it, where you create an alternative universe and you create these strawmen, and then you knock them down. You talk about, you know, teenage ninja mutant turtles all going on airplanes. 'And no, I don’t have the information, but there were bad people dressed in all black in these. I’ll get the information to you. I can’t tell you now. I’ll tell you later. We’ll tell you in a few weeks.' This is what he does. And if you’re wondering why he creates these conspiracy theories, it actually happens — this is what autocrats do — it’s what they’re doing in right now Hungary. It’s what they’re doing in Poland. It’s what they do in Russia."