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So, you know, Nikola Tesla? Yeah. There's this whole conspiracy. And if you've seen the movie The Prestige, that's made by Christopher Nolan, it's explored in it. It's kind of interesting. There's this whole conspiracy theory that Nikola Tesla made all these inventions and then either him or the government destroyed it because he believed that humanity wasn't ready for it yet. Like he discovered time travel, like teleportation, things like that. Wireless energy, like all of this stuff. Discovered, and he's saying it wasn't true. Anyway, so they're saying this is a conspiracy theory. Some of this is true and some of this is conspiracy. So when he passed away in 1943, the FBI confiscated many of his documents. According to conspiracy theory, one of the people who reviewed these documents was John G. Trump, who is an actual relative of Donald Trump. Oh, Don G. Trump was a scientist and engineer who did indeed review some of Tesla's papers, but no evidence was found that he found any secret inventions. The theory also pulls in Barron Trump, Donald Trump's youngest son, with claims that he's a time traveler and that the Trump family used Tesla's hidden technology to gain wealth and power. This part of the theory mainly comes from a book from the 1800s that oddly enough has a character named Barron Trump, which conspiracy theorists—

August 5, 202518:35David
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Jason18:23
Got it. I believed it when I heard it.
David18:26
I was like, that's what you believe in, you fucking asshole.
Jason18:28
I don't believe— I mean, I kind of believed it. I mean, some things I believe, some things I don't. I was like, well, Well, it does sound plausible.
David18:35
So, you know, Nikola Tesla? Yeah. There's this whole conspiracy. And if you've seen the movie The Prestige, that's made by Christopher Nolan, it's explored in it. It's kind of interesting. There's this whole conspiracy theory that Nikola Tesla made all these inventions and then either him or the government destroyed it because he believed that humanity wasn't ready for it yet. Like he discovered…
Jason19:50
oh, I have heard this—
David19:51
like to reference as a weird coincidence. In reality, while John G. Trump did review Tesla's papers There's no evidence of any hidden inventions or any time travel device found. So that's interesting. So there is actually a real guy that's related to Trump th…
Jason20:11
what's interesting that you think Barron's a time traveler?