from the old-man-yells-at-self dept
If there was anyone with any spine, honesty, or morality in the Trump administration, these astounding gaffes would have been headed off. But there’s no one left with any of these traits in the White House, so we get the sort of thing we’re now seeing with increasing frequency: Trump (deliberately or not) forgetting who was sitting in the Oval Office in 2020.
You know the old cartoon representation of the conscience — the devil on one shoulder and the angel on the other? When I imagine Trump occasionally having a second thought before speaking/posting, all I see are a bunch of little Trumps on both shoulders waving “GO DONNY!” flags.
There might be an argument to be made that things like these are Trump deliberately muddying the waters in hopes of generating MAGA froth:
President Donald Trump blamed the Capitol riot on former President Joe Biden, claiming that “THE BIDEN FBI” had placed agents in the crowd that had assembled in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6. 2021.
Trump’s post came in the wee hours of Sunday, at 12:38 a.m.
“THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6,” he wrote on Truth Social. “If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM – DO SOMETHING!!! President DJT”
This is obviously not so, which anyone should immediately know, since it was still Trump’s FBI up until he left office (unwillingly and one insurrection attempt later) two weeks later. Had he just said “the FBI” instead of “the Biden FBI,” he might have been able to make a point, however implausible that point might be.
Instead, he went the other way and blamed the guy who didn’t even have an FBI to call his own while Trump supporters raided the Capitol building in hopes of overturning an election.
But arguments that these statements are deliberate and evidence of 4-D chess fall apart the more often Trump does the same thing. Instead of looking like a mismanaged disinformation campaign, it just looks demented. And I don’t mean colloquially. I mean in the literal, medical sense of the word.
Just in: Documents show conclusively that Christopher Wray, Deranged Jack Smith, Merrick Garland, Lisa Monaco, and other crooked lowlifes from the failed Biden Administration, signed off on Operation Arctic Frost. They spied on Senators and Congressmen/women, and even taped their calls. They cheated and rigged the 2020 Presidential Election. These Radical Left Lunatics should be prosecuted for their illegal and highly unethical behavior!
At best, Trump has a legitimate complaint against Christopher Wray (who was heading the FBI in 2020). And by “legitimate,” I only mean he was actually employed by the FBI at the point in time referenced by Donald Trump.
But everyone else was appointed by Joe Biden after he took over as president in 2021. To claim they somehow “rigged” an election is literally insane. Merrick Garland was a federal judge while Trump was in office. Jack Smith was still at The Hague. Lisa Monaco was a Biden advisor during his presidential campaign. The only person who could have conceivably been part of an inside job was someone who was still working for Trump at the time: Christopher Wray.
Trump has already published an enemies list to the White House website. Stuff like this appears to be the venting of his private list of people he doesn’t like. He recognizes some names and gets angry, never bothering to consider relevant details like, say, who was actually in charge of the place when he was apparently getting screwed over by the democratic process.
Back in his first term, there were still enough people around him to help curb these impulses a bit. I mean, no one could really control him when he went off-script but he didn’t spend nearly as much time just blasting disjointed social media buckshot into the void. The people that surround him now perform only two tasks in response to things like these: (1) engaging in massive amounts of spin or (2) just pretending it didn’t happen.
This isn’t healthy. The GOP is almost entirely composed of people pretending to be mad about “woke” stuff while ensuring the garden hose aimed at the authoritarian kudzu never gets shut off. They’re doomed to repeat the past because they learned all the wrong lessons from it. Sooner or later, every authoritarian regime begins eating its own. At some point, they’ll be up against the wall, having sold their souls for the privilege of being executed by their compatriots. And the longer they pretend no one needs to tell Donald Trump “no,” the more inevitable this endpoint becomes.
Filed Under: 2020 election, christopher wray, doj, fbi, insurrection, jack smith, joe biden, lisa monaco, merrick garland, trump administration
