When someone says you won't hear this anywhere else you know you are in BS land. The common phrase is an apologetic for the nonsense to follow and should the nonsense fit into an existing narrative all is well. Trump has been a master at creating this narrative trick and it works on many people. Say something ridiculous with a qualifier so you can invoke plausible denial.
"I want to argue for something which is controversial, although I believe that it is also intuitive and commonsensical. My claim is this: Oliver [ average Right Winger] believes what he does because that is the kind of thinker he is or, to put it more bluntly, because there is something wrong with how he thinks. The problem with conspiracy theorists is not, as the US legal scholar Cass Sunstein argues, that they have little relevant information. The key to what they end up believing is how they interpret and respond to the vast quantities of relevant information at their disposal. I want to suggest that this is fundamentally a question of the way they are. Oliver isn’t mad (or at least, he needn’t be). Nevertheless, his beliefs about 9/11 are the result of the peculiarities of his intellectual constitution – in a word, of his intellectual character." https://aeon.co/essays/the-intellectual-character-of-conspiracy-theorists
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