Donald Trump’s latest insanity is a direct appeal to the conspiracy-minded right wing base, the kind of people who post comments at Breitbart “News.” In an interview with Fox News, Trump strongly implied that President Obama either condones or was actually connected to the Orlando shootings.

This is the Washington Post article that enraged Trump so much he revoked their press credentials.

Donald Trump seemed to repeatedly accuse President Obama on Monday of identifying with radicalized Muslims who have carried out terrorist attacks in the United States and being complicit in the mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando over the weekend, the worst the country has ever seen.

“Look, we’re led by a man that either is not tough, not smart, or he’s got something else in mind,” Trump said in a lengthy interview on Fox News early Monday morning. “And the something else in mind — you know, people can’t believe it. People cannot, they cannot believe that President Obama is acting the way he acts and can’t even mention the words ‘radical Islamic terrorism.’ There’s something going on. It’s inconceivable. There’s something going on.”

In that same interview, Trump was asked to explain why he called for Obama to resign in light of the shooting and he answered, in part: “He doesn’t get it or he gets it better than anybody understands — it’s one or the other, and either one is unacceptable.”

In this election, we’re seeing the mainstreaming of deranged conspiracy theories and racist ideas that have previously been relegated to the far right fringe, now being actively promoted and exploited by the Republican Party’s nominee for president.