Exene Cervenka of X is, herself, a bit unusual. And, given that she has actually referred to herself as a 'conspiracy therapist,' she is inarguably very knowledgeable about the roiling, seething conspiracy constituency who—along with Russia—helped shoehorn Donald Trump into the Oval Office.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, pictured July 19, 2017. Photograph courtesy of Official White House photographer Joyce N. Boghosian
TORONTO—“What is the wrong with these people?”
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