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In the minds of Welcome to Broadcasting Seeds, the show
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that dives deep into the weird, the hidden, and the
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downright unexplainable. I'm your host, Bennett Tanton, here to plant
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seeds of curiosity and maybe even a bit of skepticism
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in your mind about the world we think we know. Today,
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we're taking a look at something that's not just strange,
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it's out of this world. We're talking about a connection
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that sounds like it was pulled straight from the pages
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of a sci fi novel. But hey, maybe it's closer
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to reality than we think because we're diving into the
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Trump and Tesla connection theory, conspiracy and time travel. That's right, folks,
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time travel. If you're thinking of old sci fi movies
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and swirling vortex's, well, keep listening. It's a lot stranger
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than that. Here's the premise. You've got Nikola Tesla, one
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of the most brilliant minds in history, working on inventions
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that could change the very fabric of reality. Then, at
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the time of his death, his mysterious files disappear into
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the hands of the US government. And who's the guy
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tasked with digging through them none other than John G. Trump,
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An mit scientist and yep, Donald Trump's uncle. Now here's
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where it gets wild. Conspiracy theories claim that John may
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have stumbled on time travel tech or even some kind
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of knowledge about the future, and rumor has it he
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might have passed on to his nephew. Think of it
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as Back to the Future meets The X Files, but
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with a healthy dose of politics thrown in. So in
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today's episode, we're going to break it all down. We'll
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start by digging into Tesla's legacy in the mystery of
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his missing inventions. Then we'll talk about Uncle John G. Trump, scientist, professor,
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and maybe unwitting gatekeeper to some seriously classified secrets. From there,
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we'll touch on Donald Trump's uncanny ability to predict things
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before they happen, and whether there might be some truth,
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any truth, to the idea of inherited for knowledge. After that,
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we're going to tackle the idea of time travel itself.
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What did Tesla know that we don't. Finally, we'll look
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at what all this means for us today, because let's
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be real, even if it's just a conspiracy theory, there's
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a reason people are so hooked on it. The idea
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that hidden technology and secret knowledge could shape our future.
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Well that's the kind of thought that lingers. So buckle up, folks,
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grab your coffee or your conspiracy cap, or maybe both,
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because this episode is about to go places. We're cracking
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open one of the most bizarre theories out there to
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see if there's more to it than meets the eye,
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and who knows, maybe by the end you'll have a
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few seeds of curiosity of your own. All right, let's
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jump in with the first segment, Tesla's legacy and the
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mystery of his missing inventions. All right, so let's start
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where all good conspiracies begin, with an eccentric genius and
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a pile of missing inventions. Nikola Tesla, the man, the myth,
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the legend. He was the type of guy who would
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make a modern tech guru look like a kid playing
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with toy blocks. Born in eighteen fifty six, Tesla was
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the mind behind things like alternating current radio waves, and,
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if some rumors are true, even the blueprint for wireless
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energy transmission. The guy was like a living science fiction story,
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always five steps ahead of everyone else, and sometimes a
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little too far ahead for his own good. Now, Tesla
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wasn't just your run of the mill inventor. This guy
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was talking about things most people couldn't even wrap their
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heads around back then, and honestly, some of us still
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can't think death rays, wireless power towers, and even the
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possibility of time travel. He was known for saying, the
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present is theirs. The future for which I really worked
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is mine. It's like he knew he was onto something
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that no one else could quite see. But here's where
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it gets juicy. In nineteen forty three, Tesla was found
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dead in his New York City hotel room. He had
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been living alone, surrounded by pigeons, and apparently not doing
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so well financially. When they found him, he supposedly had
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a treasure trove of notebooks filled with his ideas. And
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we're not talking about doodles or rough sketches. These were
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detailed notes about inventions, theories, and who knows what else,
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all that knowledge just sitting there now. Within hours of
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his death, the US government swoops in and confiscates everything,
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and I mean everything, papers, drawings, notebooks, even what they
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called is death ray prototypes. Why the rush, right, Here's
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the thing. Tesla was a US citizen at the time,
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but he was born in what is now Croatia, and
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the government feared his work might fall into the wrong hands.
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We were smack in the middle of World War II,
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and the idea of an enemy nation getting their hands
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on Tesla's tech was a major nogo. So the government
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calls in a guy to assess the material. And this
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is where it gets interesting. They don't just pick any scientists.
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They bring in doctor John G. Trump MIT, professor, electrical engineer,
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and yes, Donald Trump's uncle. He goes through Tesla's files
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and after a while concludes that there's nothing in there
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of significant interest, just some ramblings, maybe a few loose ideas.
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Case closed, right, well, not quite see. For decades people
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have speculated that maybe Uncle John found more than he
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let on. Maybe there was something in those files, a
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breakthrough that was too dangerous or too powerful to make public.
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And maybe, just maybe he shared a few insights with
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his nephew, the future president of the United States. Because
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here's the thing about Tesla's inventions. Many of them seem
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almost impossible, yet Tesla himself believed they were achievable. He
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claimed to have made discoveries about energy, the nature of time,
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and even the possibility of other dimensions. But what if
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that wasn't just science fiction. What if there was something
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in his notes that suggested a way to manipulate time
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or access hidden forces of nature. This is where the
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conspiracy starts to sprout legs, because if the government took
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all those papers, what did they really find and why
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Despite Tesla's huge contributions to science, do we know so
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little about what he was working on in his final years.
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Today some theorists claim that Tesla may have been on
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the brink of discovering time manipulation. Others believe he had
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unlocked the secret to free unlimited energy, a discovery that
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could potentially disrupt entire industries, especially the energy sector. And
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here's a fun fact. After Tesla's death, many of his
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documents were marked as top secret and locked away from
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public view. Makes you wonder what they were hiding, doesn't it.
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So here we have a genius with a vision of
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the future, research that mysteriously vanished, and a government that
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took quick action to secure his work, And right in
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the middle of it all we have John G. Trump,
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a respected scientist, tasked with analyzing it all and then
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telling the public nothing to see here. But was that
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really the case? Or did John Trump find something that
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went beyond the usual boundaries of science. That's the question
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we're left with as we dig deeper into this mystery.
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Maybe there's nothing there, just an inventor's notes that were
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misunderstood by conspiracy theorists. Or maybe Tesla was onto something
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that we're still not ready to understand. All Right, with
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that stage set, let's move into our next segment. John G. Trump,
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the scientist, the engineer, and maybe just maybe the unlikely
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gatekeeper to secrets that could change the course of history.
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So let's get into the man in the middle of
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this conspiracy, John G. Trump. Now, if you're thinking of
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some shadowy figure straight out of a spy movie, you're
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going to be disappointed. John wasn't a double agent or
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a guy lurking around in trench coats. He was an
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electrical engineer and an MIT professor, a respected straight laced academic.
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But here's where it gets interesting. He was also a
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scientist with close ties to the US government, particularly in
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sensitive wartime projects. John Trump worked on high voltage equipment
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and X ray machines during World War Two. He was
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part of the Radiation Laborator toy at MIT, where he
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developed radar systems and other advanced tech. He was known
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as a top mind in his field, and his work
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contributed to the war effort. Not exactly someone who'd be
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dealing in fringe science, or would he. Now picture this.
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Tesla has just died and the government is suddenly very
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interested in his files. They don't send a regular investigator.
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high voltage physics and X rays. That might sound unrelated,
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but Tesla was working on experiments with high frequency electricity
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and even claimed he could use it for something he
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called teleforce, or, as it's more dramatically known, the death ray.
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Whether or not that was true, Tesla's research was likely
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technical and complex, exactly the kind of thing you'd want
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a top engineer to examine. So John gets the call.
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He heads to Tesla's hotel room and starts sifting through
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the papers, examining notebooks filled with diagrams, equations, and Tesla's
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notes on energy and maybe even time manipulation. Now, according
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to official records, John Trump reviewed these materials and concluded
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there was nothing significant among them, just a bunch of
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theoretical stuff that, in his opinion, wasn't actionable or particularly groundbreaking.
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move along. But here's where the questions come in. Tesla
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was no ordinary scientist, and he was known to have
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worked on things well beyond the scope of conventional science
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at the time. So was John Trump being entirely truthful
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in his assessment. Some theorists argue that maybe he found
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something that could have been a game changer, something so
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disruptive that it had to be kept under wraps. After all,
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we're talking about research that could potentially alter the course
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of energy production and maybe even reality itself. Now, John
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he was involved in classified projects, so if he did
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find something, he would have been the kind of guy
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the government could trust to keep it under wraps. But
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here's where it gets really intriguing. Some people believe that
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John Trump didn't just bury whatever he found. They believe
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he shared it with his family, specifically with his nephew
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Donald Trump. The theory goes that John may have passed
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down Tesla's secrets not just as scientific curiosity, but as
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something with real world implications. So imagine this scenario a
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brilliant scientist finds something potentially revolutionary in Tesla's work, something
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that could explain some of Tesla's wildest ideas about energy
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and maybe even time. But instead of letting it out
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into the world, he keeps a quiet, perhaps thinking the
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world isn't ready, and maybe, just maybe he tells his
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nephew about it. Donald Trump, someone who, as we know,
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grew up to wield a massive amount of influence. Now
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this might all sound like a stretch, but there are stories, unverified,
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of course, about Donald Trump talking privately about ideas that
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seem oddly prescient. Some say he has an uncanny ability
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to read people and situations, predicting things with surprising accuracy.
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Could that be intuition or something more? Did Uncle John
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leave Donald with insights that give him an edge? Sure
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it could be just a case of a successful person
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knowing how to read a room, but what if there's
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a little more at play? This brings us to the
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bigger question. Did John Trump find something in Tesla's papers
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that he thought was better left unsaid? And if so,
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why was it just too dangerous, too unpredictable, or maybe
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just too far ahead of its time? Because remember we're
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talking about an era when things like atomic energy were
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only beginning to be understood. If Tesla's theories were as
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far out as they sounded, maybe John Trump decided to
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protect the world from ideas we weren't ready for. So
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we have a respected scientist with government ties, the mystery
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of Tesla's files, and a potential secret passed down to
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the Trump family. It sounds wild, I know, but that's
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the thing with conspiracies. They're part fact, part speculation, and
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just enough mystery to keep you wondering. What did John G.
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Trump really find and did he take it with him
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to the grave or did he in some way pass
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it along like a breadcrumb trail leading right into the
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heart of the Trump legacy. Yeah, all right, Now that
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we've unpacked the potential role of John Trump, let's head
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into our next segment and look at some of the
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strange moments in Donald Trump's life that have people wondering
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if he might have fore knowledge of events before they happen.
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We're wading into the part of this theory that sounds
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almost like a script from the Twilight Zone. So we've
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got Tesla's work, John G. Trump's involvement, and now we
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arrive at Donald Trump himself. Here's where things start to
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get peculiar. Over the years, people have noticed that Trump
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seems to have an uncanny ability to predict certain events. Now,
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whether he's got access to Tesla's hidden tech, incredible intuition,
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or maybe just sheer luck, some of these predictions are
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enough to make you scratch your head. Let's start with
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a big one. In a two thousand interview, Trump was
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talking about the threats facing the United States. This was
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well before nine to eleven, and he mentioned the risk
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of terrorists using weapons of mass destruction in a way that,
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looking back, feels eerily accurate. At the time, this wasn't
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exactly a mainstream concern. Sure, terrorism was a known issue,
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but the idea of it happening on US soil in
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such a massive and catastrophic way wasn't on many people's radar.
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Did he have an insight that others didn't, or was
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he just ahead of the curve. Then there's his understanding
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of public opinion and is almost prophetic timing and jumping
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into the political ring In twenty fifteen, when he announced
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his candidacy, few people saw it coming or saw him
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as a serious contender. But he seemed to know something