{"id":43101,"date":"2019-10-24T12:45:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T19:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=43101"},"modified":"2019-10-24T13:01:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T20:01:31","slug":"in-fox-news-meltdown-trump-press-secretary-comes-out-as-deep-state-conspiracy-kook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=43101","title":{"rendered":"In Fox News Meltdown, Trump Press Secretary Comes Out as &#8216;Deep State&#8217; Conspiracy Kook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the walls are crumbling all around him, Donald Trump is frantically trying to reinforce the White House bunker that is rapidly becoming his prison. His rants are becoming <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=43022\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">more incoherent<\/a><\/strong>. His tweets are getting <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=43079\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">more bizarre<\/a><\/strong>. And he is generally <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=43090\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">slumping into a haze of paranoia and victimhood<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-deep-state.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump, Deep State\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39198\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/3049390788409029\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><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>Naturally, the Trump Bootlickers Brigade is marching obediently behind Dear Leader as he concocts ever more absurd tales of clandestine conspirators determined to destroy him. The latest soldier in this Battle of the Half-Wits is White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham. Her job title is a bit misleading since she has never held a press conference since assuming the position. But she does regularly submit herself to the brutal interrogations of Fox News Trump-fluffers.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday morning Grisham held court on Fox News to address a couple of critical matters of national security <em>(video below)<\/em>. They began with a probing inquiry into Trump calling Republicans who occasionally dare to disagree with him <em>&#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realdonaldtrump\/status\/1187063301731209220\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">human scum<\/a><\/strong>.&#8221;<\/em> that&#8217;s a bold position to take against some of the GOP senators, and their colleagues, who will eventually sit in judgment of him at his impeachment. But it does reflect Trump&#8217;s shallow thought processes that ignore the fact that these are the same people who are supporting 95 percent of his agenda. So Grisham faced this issue head on in the following exchange with Fox&#8217;s Brian Kilmeade:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Kilmeade:<\/strong> The President yesterday called the &#8220;Never Trumpers&#8221; scum. Does he regret that?<br \/>\n<strong>Grisham:<\/strong> No. No he shouldn&#8217;t. The people who are against him and have been against him and have been working against him since the day they took office are just that. It is horrible that people are working against a president who is delivering results for this country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So in Trump World, anyone who has different opinions than the <em>&#8220;Stable Genius&#8221;<\/em> are not merely political opponents, they are scum. Even if they are members of the President&#8217;s own Republican Nationalist Party. That&#8217;s because in aspiring totalitarian regimes like his, dissent is not tolerated in any form. Moving on, Kilmeade asked Grisham if the Intelligence Community that Trump has bitterly and falsely maligned for years, is <em>&#8220;paying him back&#8221;<\/em> saying that <em>&#8220;It looks like the &#8216;Deep State&#8217; has turned on the President.&#8221;<\/em> Taking the bait in that loaded question, Grisham replied that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Grisham:<\/strong> [Trump] has made no secret since the day he took office that this has been a <em>&#8220;witch hunt&#8221;<\/em> against him and there some really terrible people in the <em>&#8220;Deep State&#8221;<\/em> working against him and working against this country. This is dangerous for the country. [&#8230;] The President has people working actively against him in his own government. And I just want to talk to the people of this country and let them know that that&#8217;s dangerous for them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What we have here is the official spokesperson for the President of the United States telling a national television audience of glassy-eyed Deplorables that Trump believes that the government he is responsible for leading is harboring a cabal of subversives who are plotting to undermine him. It&#8217;s a de facto declaration of war against his own subordinates, most of whom are non-political career professionals. And Grisham is employing the familiar <em>&#8220;Deep State&#8221;<\/em> rhetoric of Fox&#8217;s primetime propagandists and the Internet&#8217;s conspiracy crackpot underground.<\/p>\n<p>In the light of these ludicrous delusions, the <em>&#8220;Curvy Couch&#8221;<\/em> potatoes of Fox and Friends went on to grill Grisham about Wednesday&#8217;s <em>&#8220;Storming of the Impeachment Inquiry,&#8221;<\/em> wherein Republican members of the House sought to illegally gain access to private hearings and breach national security while they were at it. In her response to this criminal and childish behavior, Grisham gushed that <em>&#8220;I&#8217;m glad they did it. Again, the Democrats have been doing everything behind closed doors and in secret.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Setting aside her dismissal of the flagrant lawbreaking, Grisham is completely wrong in her assessment of the hearings. The hearings are actually attended by members of both parties, who have equal rights to access the evidence and question witnesses. In fact, on the very same episode of this program, the Senior Legal Analyst at Fox News, Andrew Napolitano, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/revrrlewis\/status\/1187339967300812800\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">schooled the Foxies<\/a><\/strong> on the matter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;I read the House rules. And as frustrating as it may be to have these hearings going on behind close doors &#8211; the hearings over which Congressman Schiff is presiding &#8211; they are consistent with the rules. And when were the rules written last? In January of 2015. And who signed them? John Boehner. And who enacted them? A Republican majority.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Napolitano also pointed out that the current hearings are analogous to a grand jury that is never done in public. The public stage comes after a vote on Articles of Impeachment and a trial is held in the Senate. The Republican Bitch Mob, as well as Trump and his press secretary, is purposefully lying about these matters of process that the Democrats are executing properly and lawfully.<\/p>\n<p>The abject fear that is radiating from the White House is staggering. Trump is a severely paranoid individual who is utterly incapable of dealing with his psychoses. The nation has never had a chief executive who suspected his own intelligence agencies of plotting against him. And now it&#8217;s clear that other senior officials in his administration are taking up the mantle of his madness. Which makes impeachment all the more imperative. Because if neglected it is clear that this will not end well for America.<\/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\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=6097344826001&#038;w=550&#038;h=310\"><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\">foxnews.com<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the walls are crumbling all around him, Donald Trump is frantically trying to reinforce the White House bunker that is rapidly becoming his prison. His rants are becoming more incoherent. His tweets are getting more bizarre. And he is generally slumping into a haze of paranoia and victimhood. Naturally, the Trump Bootlickers Brigade is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[1,684,1200,8,13,16],"tags":[1295,735,870,1346,554,879,33,1385],"class_list":["post-43101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","category-propaganda","category-scandalous","category-wankery","tag-adam-schiff","tag-andrew-napolitano","tag-brian-kilmeade","tag-deep-state","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-friends","tag-fox-news","tag-stephanie-grisham"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-deep-state.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-bdb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":39956,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39956","url_meta":{"origin":43101,"position":0},"title":"Fox News Host Pushes Trump-Fluffing Fox Contributor for the President&#8217;s Chief of Staff","author":"Mark NC","date":"12\/10\/2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The State TV propagandists at Fox News are starting the week out with some profoundly self-serving commentaries. 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