Lora Smith He had been placed on suicide watch last month but then taken off within a week, according to a person familiar with the matter. White House officials did not immediately return a request for a comment on why Mr Trump was spreading the conspiracy theory. A Justice Department spokesman declined to comment on the president's retweet. A Clinton spokesman responded on Twitter: "Ridiculous, and of course not true - and Donald Trump knows it. Has he triggered the 25th Amendment yet?" On Saturday, Senator Marco Rubio warned against embracing conspiracy theories. While scrutiny of Epstein's apparent suicide is warranted, Mr Rubio said, he added that "the immediate rush to spread conspiracy theories about someone on the 'other side' of partisan divide having him killed illustrates why our society is so vulnerable to foreign disinformation & influence efforts".Still, Mr Trump's retweet will surely help fuel the conspiracy theories that have quickly spread online since the news of Epstein's death broke on Saturday. And the president - who is on vacation at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey - is no stranger to using his considerable public platform to promote conspiracy theories, particularly those that target his political opponents.
For years, Mr Trump promoted the myth that former president Barack Obama was born in Kenya rather than in the United States. During the 2016 presidential campaign, Mr Trump spread a conspiracy theory that Mr Rafael Cruz, the father of Senator Ted Cruz, was somehow connected to the assassination of president John F. Kennedy. Mr Trump has claimed without evidence that Mr Obama wiretapped Trump Tower in New York, and once entertained an unsubstantiated theory that former Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in his sleep in February 2016, may have been murdered.
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