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Donald looks like he should be dating, not bashing Rosie...

Nobody likes a good conspiracy theory better than Washington, D.C.'s inside the beltway crowd, always whispering and "Et tu?" intrigues afoot in that milieu. Here is the latest one the Clarion Content has picked out of the flotsam and jetsam.

We suppose that you, dear readers, have been hearing bits and pieces of it too, only not quite spun through this loony loom. Donald Trump, aka the Donald, is casting about, considering a run for President, perhaps as a Republican, possibly as an independent candidate. He has been stirring the pot on the Obama birther controversy. This is the what that we have all heard.

But is it a Trojan Horse? The inside the beltway conspiracy theorists note over the years that Trump has given more money to Democratic candidates than Republicans. Is this a Joaquin Phoenix thing? Is the Donald running for president as a hoax, a publicity stunt?

No, the conspiracy theorists have it down as even more sinister than that, the idea being that the Democrats and Obama want Trump to run, and run as far to the right as possible. That's right, the Democrats and Obama are behind the Trump campaign. The claim is that their calculus is that a Trump candidacy that can siphon off even 3%-5% of the right wing electorate that was likely to vote for the Republican party standard bearer, would tip the scales in Obama's favor.

Obama, in this theory, is deliberately playing along, releasing his birth certificate to keep the issue burbling. Give the far right crowd, for whom Trump is the red herring, a document that they have months and months to shred for inaccuracies, suspicious marks, blurs and other signs that it, the birth certificate, has been doctored.

Quite a conspiracy theory.

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