He also a Former Navy Seal, and the Former Governor of Minnesota. Either of those are more credentials than anyone in the current administration has.
Conspiracy theorists are not crazy people, there is nothing wrong with their thinking either, you would be amazed how much of what they say is actually true. The reason you want to think they are crazy is called cognitive dissonance. Mostly it is caused by your mind entertaining the possibility of two contradictory ideas simultaneously. What usually happens is the propaganda you hear and see which is mostly on television has already conditioned you for the response you JUST gave. You see most people DO live in a kind of "matrix", they are mostly content with living their meager lives as long as they have purpose. Some people fall off the track and discover certain truths about the matrix that then later calls into question their ideology. Since so many of us were educated by the public school system where it is the same thing taught in every classroom and what we are taught is first approved by government officials we are only taught what they want us to know. They don't want critical thinkers like conspiracy theorist people tend to be, they want obedient slaves who will tow the line and take whatever meager scraps are thrown to them without complaint. If dissent is amongst the masses the government officials will throw the dog a bone once in a while, but usually they impose the harshest of sentences to those they deem a threat to the Status quo. For instance the Branch Davidian in Waco, Texas. They gas out the people and then set it on fire while teams and teams of snipers shot anyone running out of the building, most of which were children. Or how about ruby ridge, they shoot a mother nursing her baby. Don't even get me started with the police brutality videos I see all the time, and to think maybe only 1 in 10 incidents gets recorded or ever gets any attention from the media. The world you live in is an illusion in the way you were programmed to receive it. Conspiracies do happen, they happen all the time.