Lara Trump denies viral claim Barron Trump is a time traveller

7 articles · Updated · HuffPost · May 1

On her Right View show, the Fox News host said Donald Trump's 20-year-old son was not a time traveller and called the online theory "crazy."
She said videos dissecting the idea had drawn striking numbers of views and challenged believers to name any real time traveller.
The conspiracy has circulated partly because 19th-century Ingersoll Lockwood novels featuring a character called "Baron Trump" resurfaced during Trump's first term.

How do 19th-century novels fuel a viral conspiracy theory about the president's son today?

What does our fascination with such theories reveal about trust in the digital age?