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Thanks to Trump, fringe news enters the mainstream

By Paul Farhi Alex Jones may be America’s most successful conspiracy theorist. On his website, Infowars.com, and his daily radio program heard on more than 100 stations nationwide, Jones regularly promotes a variety of ­beyond-the- fringe ideas: alleged government conspiracies in the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 and the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001; fluoride-in-the-water health scares; suspicions that the moon landings were faked; doubts about President Obama’s place of birth and birth certificate. Jones, in short, may be Donald Trump’s kind of guy. The ranting radio host and the leading Republican candidate shared a microphone, and some common… View Article