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The 5 Most Hilarious Conspiracy Theories About The First Presidential Debate

It all makes sense now...

Jasmin Suknanan
Oct 03, 2016
The State University of New York at Stony Brook
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The 5 Most Hilarious Conspiracy Theories About The First Presidential Debate
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Anyone looking for a thoughtful, informative debate last Monday night received anything but if they tuned into the First Presidential Debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump. Anyone looking for a good laugh, however, was successful in their search. It didn't take long for conspiracy theorists to take to the internet to cite the subliminal messages from the candidates that we probably totally missed (in our defense, Donald Trump's salty AF facial expressions were just too much). Did you notice any of these itty, bitty details?

1. Moderator Lester Holt wore an earpiece...to communicate with Clinton!

WHOA, WHAT?? A live TV host wearing an earpiece you say? That's just unheard of. What could Holt possibly need an earpiece for during the debate -- it's not like he needed to be able to communicate with the producer, or keep things running smoothly or anything. Pretty suspicious if you ask me...

2. Clinton touched her face to signal to Holt to let her respond to Trump's statements.

She touched her face SIX times to be exact; not once, not twice, but SIX times. Motions of Clinton scratching her nose and rubbing her chin came when Trump spoke about stop-and-frisk, NATO and Iraq, to name a few. I bet Trump wished he devised such a plan.

3. Trump was given a bad microphone on purpose.

Trump said that his microphone was lower than Clinton's and that it kept producing a crackling sound, which is clearly a sign from the gods that this was a setup. Was all that sniffling of his to fight back tears at this *totally* unfair treatment?

4. Clinton's podium came complete with a teleprompter to help her answer questions.

How else could she have been able to fire back at Trump masterfully?

5. Hillary Clinton is actually a robot.

Ladies and gents, we now know for sure that robots masquerading as humans is NOT just a part of our worst science fiction nightmare. Okay, lame joke aside, some say that the metal box and wire on her back might've been a device that aides to allay symptoms of Parkinson's Disease. Others say it was probably just a poorly placed microphone.

Got anymore insane conspiracy theories from the first debate?

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