Trump Tweets ‘Big Story’ About the FBI that Turns Out to Be a Big Lie By Wingnut Website

Posted by on August 25, 2018 at 3:59 pm. 5 Comments :

The tribulations of Donald Trump continue to mount as news of his crumbling network of accomplices gets more dire with each passing day. Just this week his campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, was convicted of eight felonies and his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty to felonies of his own. Then two close associates – David Pecker of the National Enquirer, and Allen Weisselberg, CFO of the Trump Organization – were granted immunity by federal prosecutors in exchange for their cooperation.

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As usual, when ever Trump sees dark clouds gathering he attempts to blow them away by creating a windstorm of his own. It’s an obvious tactic that just makes him look desperate and even more guilty. On Saturday morning he deployed this scheme with a series of tweets intended to distract from the Mueller probe and the slow-motion apocalypse that is his presidency:

The “Big story” that Trump refers to is one that has been in circulation for nearly two years now. It revolves around allegations that Hillary Clinton engaged in some vaguely defined wrongdoing connected to her handling of classified documents. This matter has been investigated by everyone from the FBI to various Republican-controlled committees in the House and Senate. And even when starkly partisan players in Congress were pushing hard to find misdeeds, they never did.

If getting “to the bottom of all of this corruption” was actually on Trump’s agenda, he would not be relying on Fox News as his source for information. After all, he has the world’s most sophisticated intelligence operations at his fingertips, but he still prefers the imbecilic sycophants on Fox and Friends to experienced law enforcement professionals.

The big story that has Trump triggered now is one that alleges that the FBI failed to review thousands of Clinton’s emails during their investigation in 2016. Trump attributes the story to Fox News, but it originated with a website, The Federalist, that is a virulent right-wing fount of extremist propaganda. The article authored by Paul Sperry is an interminably long screed that offers nothing but conjecture, when it isn’t rehashing ancient history about alleged Clinton misdeeds.

The key point that Trump’s tantrum focuses on is the charge that the FBI deliberately ignored thousands of Clinton’s email that were discovered on the laptop of Anthony Weiner, who was married to Clinton aide Huma Abedin. Sperry asserts that some 675,000 emails were found, but that the FBI only reviewed 3,077 of them. That’s because the FBI conducted an automated review that identified the vast majority of these emails as duplicates that they had received and reviewed from other sources. Sperry casts doubts on the FBI’s ability to have effectively screened out the duplicates, but he offers no proof for that contention, and he completely ignores the fact that computers are quite capable of comparing text.

Somehow, Trump concludes from this dubious article that the emails that were supposedly unreviewed were “REALLY BAD” and “disasters.” Where he got that from is anyone’s guess because even Sperry never made that claim. Nevertheless, on the weakness of this report, Trump is threatening, again, that he “may have to get involved” in the work of what should be the independent Justice Department. He has long claimed that he has that right and that he could even run the investigation himself if he wanted to. Imagine that: a president who personally takes control of the persecution of his political enemies. That says pretty much everything you need to know about the wannabe dictator in the White House.

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5 thoughts on “Trump Tweets ‘Big Story’ About the FBI that Turns Out to Be a Big Lie By Wingnut Website”

  1. Trump is getting dumber and dumber and more frantic.

  2. The president’s desperation is dramatically pathetic; his resignation is the only avenue that will spare him further indignation and humiliation. His assertions are “bold-faced” lies. That’s how he operates. The truth is like a virus to him. And his credibility flounders daily. Doubts grow from his beleaguered base. He will not see the New Year from the WH.

  3. Trump is increasingly desperate and unhinged! He is so unqualified for this office. This is a reality show President and I for one am horrified by this fraud. He is going to fire Sessions and put in someone like Guliani to end the investigation and no one is going to do a damn thing about it, I fear.

  4. Trump doesn’t feel real, instead we are all living in some kind of surreal skit on Saturday Night Live or Seinfeld. I want to hear Seinfeld’s Kramer/Michael Richards screaming out Trumps BAD! tweet and post it on Youtube.

    Big story out that the FBI ignored tens of thousands of Crooked Hillary Emails, many of which are REALLY BAD. (I love the caps. lol)

    [Kramer opens his window revealing a banner saying “BAD CHICKEN”]
    Kramer: Hey, stay away from the chicken, bad chicken, mess you up.

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