Donald Trump Jr. seems to think it's perfectly plausible that Hillary Clinton was wearing an "earpiece" at Wednesday night's Commander-in-Chief Forum. The Republican presidential nominee's son tweeted out a story by Infowars on Thursday morning that suggested Clinton got her lines fed to her during the live NBC town hall event via "some kind of flesh-colored device embedded inside her ear":
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