Bannon is melting down: “DOJ is lying. The FBI is lying. All of them are lying. Merrick Garland .. listen pipsqueak .. you’re a lawless scumbag! Suck on that. And the FBI is a bunch of lawless Gestapo!” pic.twitter.com/qJc0qstZK8
— Ron Filipkowski ???? (@RonFilipkowski) August 12, 2022
Were I TFG, I would be extremely polite to the Secret Service agents protecting my worthless hide. To my ears, Bannon and Gorka are tiptoeing up to the edge of suggesting that an assassination would solve a whole lot of problems. Trump’s no longer worth much as an asset, and Murphy the Trickster God knows he’s incapable of keeping his mouth shut about what he’s done and who he’s been running with. Certainly Trump’s two most powerful foreign handlers (Putin and MBS) have shown themselves capable of arranging the murder of troublesome individuals even at a great distance… and a martyred Fearless Leader as a sacred icon for the deluded rubes is a lot easier to promote than the messy narcissist currently holed up in Bedminster.
"This week has once again proved that there’s no rhetorical line Trump Republicans won’t cross, no outlandish charge they won’t make. It’s now all about one-upmanship, with each person trying to make a more freakish claim than the next." @TheAtlantic https://t.co/t6E6SIFSgl
— Peter Wehner (@Peter_Wehner) August 11, 2022
In a sane world, a partisan Republican reaction to the FBI’s search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida home on Monday would be something like this: We don’t believe Trump did anything wrong. We’re skeptical about the Department of Justice’s actions, but we’ll wait to see the evidence before we make any sweeping claims or definitive judgments. Unfortunately, the reaction online, in the right-wing media, and even among lawmakers has been far from sane. It’s been unhinged and ominous.
MAGA-world denizens have called for violence and civil war, so much so that the phrase civil war was trending on Twitter Monday night. One user on Trump’s social-media platform, Truth Social, said, “Fuck a civil war, give them a REVOLUTION. We out number all of the 10 to 1.”…
Sebastian Gorka, a former Trump adviser who now hosts a show on Salem Radio, said the FBI’s actions were “a declaration of war.” Monica Crowley, a right-wing commentator who worked in the Trump administration, tweeted, “This is it. This is the hill to die on.” Another popular right-wing talk-show host, Mark Levin, made this claim: “This is the worst attack on this republic in modern history, period.” For good measure, he added, “This is a Stalinist hunt.” And Stephen Miller, who worked closely with Trump in the White House, called the FBI’s action an “abomination” and made this historical comparison: “We are truly living in a situation where the FBI has become a Praetorian Guard from Rome where they take it unto themselves to decide who wields power in this country.”
Bannon, busily making the rounds, told the conspiracist Alex Jones, “I do not think it’s beyond this administrative state and their deep-state apparatus to actually try to work on the assassination of President Trump.” This charge was echoed by former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, who said he is worried Democrats might try to assassinate Donald Trump. “I’m gonna tell you something: I’m not into conspiracies; I’m not into anti-government rhetoric,” Kerik said. “This is the first time in my lifetime that I would say I am deathly afraid for Donald Trump. I would not put assassination behind these people.”…
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