Since the surprising election of Donald Trump last November, the intelligentsia of the left has been trying desperately to make sense of it all. All too often, liberals share conspiracies based on wild speculation, spreading often unsubstantiated claims against the new President. BuzzFeed reports that Harvard Law School's Laurence Tribe​ is the perfect example of a liberal who is letting his hatred of Donald Trump get in the way of his reasoning. The Constitutional scholar, who has argued in front of the Supreme Court, has recently developed a larger following on Twitter due to his anti-Trump tweets. Interestingly, however, many of his tweets are based on mere conjecture and not facts:

On April 22, Tribe shared a story from a website called the Palmer Report — a site that has been criticized for spreading hyperbole and false claims — entitled “Report: Trump gave $10 million in Russian money to Jason Chaffetz when he leaked FBI letter,” a reference to the notorious pre-election letter sent by former FBI director James Comey to members of Congress that many have blamed for Hillary Clinton’s November loss.

The “report” the article points to is a since-deleted tweet by a Twitter user named LM Garner, who describes herself in her Twitter biography as “Just a VERY angry citizen on Twitter. Opinions are my own. Sometimes prone to crazy assertions. Not a fan of this nepotistic kleptocracy.” Garner, who has 257 followers, has tweeted more than 25,000 times from her protected account.

“I don't know whether this is true,” Tribe’s tweet reads, “But key details have been corroborated and none, to my knowledge, have been refuted. If true, it's huge.”

When asked for comment on the Palmer Report's sketchy reporting, Tribe said, “When I share any story on Twitter, typically with accompanying content of my own that says something like 'If X is true, then Y,' I do so because a particular story seems to be potentially interesting, not with the implication that I’ve independently checked its accuracy or that I vouch for everything it asserts.” Interesting.  

Apparently, Trump Derangement Syndrome is such a real thing that prominent intellectuals no longer care if what they're talking about is true. I wonder if the professor would buy that sort of explanation in class from any of his students?

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