I think the “it was just a joke” excuse is something Trump and his ilk will say when caught in a less defensible lie. My guess is that Wood believes this, it’s sadly not an unusual belief. Opinion polls about 9/11 conspiracy theories - Wikipedia His personal motives might be to promote conspiracy theories like this to earn financial support, it could even be that he thinks Biden won, but the grift is too good to pass up. ETA: My personal belief is that Trump never believed the Birther stories, but it was a fun story with which to hurt Obama. So some grifters are just blatantly lying for cash. Unless we were to develop real truth serum or a lie detector, it’s hard to tell who actually believes the lies.
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