Ben Shapiro says many Republican members of Congress “seem to enjoy kind of swimming in the swamps of conspiracy theories”
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From the April 2, 2025, edition of The Daily Wire's The Ben Shapiro Show
BEN SHAPIRO (HOST): So yesterday, the House Republicans decided they were going to have in Oliver Stone as an expert on the JFK assassination, which is an absurdity. It's an absurdity. JFK, the film, which is, in fact, an incredibly well-produced film because Oliver Stone is a terrific director, it's a load of tripe. JFK, the movie is just crap in terms of historical accuracy. It's absolute sheer nonsense. I know this because it was the JFK movie that got me into looking into this. I remember watching this in law school. And when I watched it in law school, I thought, wow. This is fascinating. What a great movie. And then I started reading pretty much everything I could get my hands on about the JFK assassination. And after reading all the evidence I could get my hands on, I came away with Lee Harvey Oswald did it, and he did it alone. And so now when people are trotting out new theories about JFK and the assassination, I have the same feeling about that that I have about somebody giving me a new theory about how that magician pulled a handkerchief out of his thumb.
Once I know how the trick was done, then it's no longer an interesting trick. And so the Oswald assassination of Kennedy takes on the same historic importance as the assassination of, say, Abraham Lincoln or the assassination of William McKinley or the assassination of James Garfield or the attempted assassination of Gerald Ford twice or the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan or the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. By the way, there's still more questions about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump than I have questions about the assassination of JFK at this point.
And yet, still, the Republican members of Congress, many of whom seem to enjoy kind of swimming in the swamps of conspiracy theories, they went deep yesterday. Here was Lauren Boebert questioning Oliver Stone while thinking that he was another noncredible source on the JFK assassination, Roger Stone.