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Lara Trump would like to make one thing very clear: her brother-in-law Barron Trump is not a time traveler. She addressed the conspiracy theory, which she described as “crazy” during a recent episode of The Right View with Lara Trump. She’s been taking questions from people on the internet, and lately, people have been asking about Barron. Perhaps, as Lara said previously, the way Barron tends to stay out of the spotlight makes him more of a mystery, which also makes people more interested in him.
With not much information about Barron out there (at least, not compared to his dad or other members of his family, anyway), people have tried to fill in the gaps on their own. The time traveler theory was sparked by the discovery of an old book series that seems oddly similar to Barron’s real life.
In a children’s book series from the 1890s, a wealthy character named Baron Trump is mentored by someone named ‘Don.’
On its own, it might seem like a weird coincidence. But other details have some people online convinced that Barron might be a time traveler. The same author, Ingersoll Lockwood, also wrote The Last President. In that story, a contentious election takes place and a populist outsider is elected president, which… does sound familiar, actually. And, then, to make it even stranger, the president also appoints someone named Pence, which has reminded people of the current president’s former VP pick.
Lara seemed familiar with the conspiracy theory, but did not approve.
“What is this?” she said after reading the question about Barron being a time traveler. “I’ve seen this out there, and by the way, the amount of views that some of these videos get where they really dissect like how this really worked out, and you go back, and there was a Baron Trump, and all of it is wild, actually, if you really look at it.”
She continued, “I’m not trying to ruin anybody or rain on any parades here. Barron Trump is not a time traveler. Sorry to say it. I’m sorry, I broke a lot of people’s hearts today.”
At that point, Lara said she actually believes “the theory’s crazy.”
She sees this conspiracy theory as evidence of “how much really crazy stuff exists.”
Lara then asked her viewers to name one time traveler. “Name me anybody who actually can say that that’s a real thing,” she said. “It doesn’t exist. But people have gotten so far off the rails on this ‘Barron being a time traveler’ thing. I don’t know what to tell you. I think it’s crazy. I’ve known Barron for 18 years, OK, he’s not a time traveler.”
She added, “I think people love to grab onto conspiracies or things that are very far-fetched like that. You also, if you believe that, may be a person who believes that we didn’t actually land on the moon…You probably believe that 9/11 was an inside job. All of those things, right? Barron is not a time traveler.”
On an earlier episode of her show, Lara was asked to describe what Barron’s like. “You want to hear more about Barron because you see less of him, and I think that’s kind of cool,” she said, also noting that Barron is cool, smart, and funny.
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