The Daily Beast's Jackie Kucinich: Trump Has “Surrounded Himself” With “Conspiracy Theorists”

Kucinich: “I Don't Think It's In Him To Cast Aside Conspiracy Theories”

From the May 4 edition of CNN's New Day:

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JOHN BERMAN (HOST): We actually have a new poll out, we haven't talked about it yet this morning, but I'm pretty sure I'm not breaking the embargo, which actually says there's one issue right now where Donald Trump is leading Hillary Clinton on, and it is the economy. Donald Trump is leading Hillary Clinton on the issue of the economy. The trade issue is one that played big in Indiana. It's one that Bernie Sanders is using against Hillary Clinton. Is that something you see in the exit polls,  people worried about the economy?  They voted for Donald Trump. I mean Jackie, is this, can he keep it focused there and not on Ted Cruz's father being in a picture with Lee Harvey Oswald? I mean, there's the ridiculous and then there's the focus that voters want to see. 

JACKIE KUCINICH: Yeah, I don't think Donald Trump ditches the ridiculous. I don't think it's in him to cast aside conspiracy theories, because that is -- it plays well to the people that like him. So I don't see that going away. Particularly the people that he's surrounded himself with sort of indulge in that sort of thing. He met with Ed Klein the other day who writes Hillary Clinton fan fiction. 

BERMAN: Conspiracy theories. 

KUCINICH: Conspiracy theorists. Yeah, so there's that.

Previously:

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