{"id":39848,"date":"2018-11-28T11:34:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T19:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39848"},"modified":"2018-11-28T14:05:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T22:05:53","slug":"gut-brained-donald-trump-accuses-mueller-of-mccarthyism-in-a-rant-that-is-pure-mccarthyism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39848","title":{"rendered":"Gut-Brained Donald Trump Accuses Mueller of McCarthyism in a Rant that is Pure McCarthyism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We now have Donald Trump to thank for an indelible image of his intellectual prowess. In an <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2018\/11\/27\/18115395\/trumps-washington-post-interview-gut\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">interview<\/a><\/strong> with the Jeff Bezos\/Amazon Washington Post, Trump bragged about his own <em>&#8220;high levels of intelligence&#8221;<\/em> and offered as proof that <em>&#8220;I have a gut, and my gut tells me more sometimes than anybody else&#8217;s brain can ever tell me.&#8221;<\/em> Of course, it goes without saying that nobody&#8217;s brain can tell Trump anything. And he does have huge gut.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-toilet-golden-tweeting.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38963\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/2446648805349900\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The gut-infused brain of Trump later took to his Twitter machine to continue a tirade he has been unleashing against special counsel Robert Mueller this week. His <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39839\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previous tweetstorming<\/a><\/strong> certified just how fearful and desperate he is. But the latest addition to his wild-eyed raving is a true head-smacking classic:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">While the disgusting Fake News is doing everything within their power not to report it that way, at least 3 major players are intimating that the Angry Mueller Gang of Dems is viciously telling witnesses to lie about facts &amp; they will get relief. This is our Joseph McCarthy Era!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1067775022331236352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 28, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s assertion that Mueller is engaging in the reprehensible tactics of the late, disgraced senator Joseph McCarthy is pure, unadulterated McCarthyism. The red-baiting senator famously held up a sheet of paper and declared that it contained the names of active communists in the United States government. And Trump is doing the very same thing in Twitterese by declaring that he knows of <em>&#8220;major players&#8221;<\/em> who are saying that Mueller&#8217;s team is <em>&#8220;viciously telling witnesses to lie.&#8221;<\/em> Trump, like McCarthy, doesn&#8217;t actually name those players or provide any evidence that Mueller is strong-arming witnesses to commit perjury. It&#8217;s all baseless innuendo and outright slander by a sitting president.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not all. Trump also retweeted a post (four of them actually) by an anonymous Trump-fluffing Twitter fan, TheTrumpTrain, that similarly channels the McCarthy method. The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/The_Trump_Train\/status\/1067687857400229888\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tweet<\/a><\/strong> said that <em>&#8220;Now that Russia collusion is a proven lie, when do the trials for treason begin?&#8221;<\/em> Setting aside the fact that Russia collusion is supported by mountains of evidence, let&#8217;s focus on the image in the tweet. It featured a jail cell populated by Mueller, President Obama, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, John Podesta, Loretta Lynch, James Comey, and even the Deputy Attorney General that Trump appointed, Rod Rosenstein. Once again, all of these people are being slandered McCarthy-style for crimes that are unnamed and for which there is no evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is fond of raising McCarthyism as a slur against his critics. He has done so on Twitter several times recently, with each tweet an example of what real McCarthyism looks like:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my &quot;wires tapped&quot; in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/837989835818287106?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 4, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8230;.and have demanded transparency so that this Rigged and Disgusting Witch Hunt can come to a close. So many lives have been ruined over nothing &#8211; McCarthyism at its WORST! Yet Mueller &amp; his gang of Dems refuse to look at the real crimes on the other side &#8211; Media is even worse!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1031137499995930624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 19, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Study the late Joseph McCarthy, because we are now in period with Mueller and his gang that make Joseph McCarthy look like a baby! Rigged Witch Hunt!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1031154974942810114?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 19, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This tendency by Trump to weaponize the McCarthy legacy is peculiar considering that he worked with and admired Roy Cohn, McCarthy&#8217;s attorney. So you have to wonder if Trump really believes that McCarthyism is a bad thing, or if he&#8217;s just exploiting it to attack his foes. But Trump wouldn&#8217;t say things that he doesn&#8217;t believe just to gain some perceived advantage for himself, would he? (Okay, stop laughing).<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And for some truthiness on the subject of gut knowledge, here is Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondents Dinner in 2006:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IJ-a2KeyCAY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;start=51&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We now have Donald Trump to thank for an indelible image of his intellectual prowess. In an interview with the Jeff Bezos\/Amazon Washington Post, Trump bragged about his own &#8220;high levels of intelligence&#8221; and offered as proof that &#8220;I have a gut, and my gut tells me more sometimes than anybody else&#8217;s brain can ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,1200,8,16],"tags":[554,627,1247,241],"class_list":["post-39848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-politics","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-donald-trump","tag-joe-mccarthy","tag-robert-mueller","tag-washington-post"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-amI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":39868,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39868","url_meta":{"origin":39848,"position":0},"title":"Fox News Regular Says the Mueller Investigation is a &#8216;Stalinist Approach to Criminal Justice&#8217;","author":"Mark NC","date":"11\/30\/2018","format":false,"excerpt":"It's only been one day since the bombshell report that Donald Trump's former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty to lying to Congress. 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