Donald Trump Jr., President Donald Trump‘s son, stirred conspiracy theories that people in the “highest levels of government” don’t want to let “America be America.”
The president’s eldest son made the speech to conservative college students at the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit on Tuesday night in Florida. Trump Jr. spoke about the Russia investigation and recent revelations that two FBI agents had sent anti-Trump texts to one another.
Trump Jr. said the investigation, and the FBI, were part of a “rigged system” and implied that they were out to get his father and stop his agenda.
“My father talked about a rigged system throughout the campaign,” Trump continued, “and people went, ‘Oh, what are you talking about?’ But there is!”
He also said to “imagine” if the investigation and anti-candidate texts were discovered in 2008 when former President Barack Obama was running his campaign.
“You think the media would cover that? You think it would be brushed under the rug?” he said. “There would be revolution in the streets.”
Donald Trump Jr.: There are “people at the highest levels of government that don’t want to let America be America” https://t.co/bNpRK9uFLw https://t.co/zr5YeK2uUw
— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) December 20, 2017
All of these goings on, Trump Jr. implied, is because there is a vast conspiracy among the media and Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s investigation to undermine his father.
“There is, and there are, people at the highest levels of government who don’t want to let America be America.”
Trump isn’t the first member of a president’s family to allege a conspiracy on one side against a sitting president under investigation. Hillary Clinton, Trump’s 2016 opponent, once said that the Whitewater probe into her husband was part of a “vast right-wing conspiracy” back in 1998.
As Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible ties between the Trump campaign and the country continues to grow, conservatives have been ramping up their attacks about the integrity of his probe. The attacks have centered around perceived conflicts of interest, his relationship with former FBI Director James Comey (whose firing by Trump led to Mueller’s appointment), and the text messages between FBI agents that were critical of then-candidate Trump.
