{"id":43338,"date":"2019-11-22T14:02:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T22:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=43338"},"modified":"2019-11-23T10:22:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T18:22:18","slug":"trumps-brings-his-crowdstrike-conspiracy-theory-clown-show-to-fox-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=43338","title":{"rendered":"Trump Brings His Crowdstrike Conspiracy Theory Clown Show to Fox News"},"content":{"rendered":"

No one is going to be surprised to hear that Donald Trump unleashed another flurry of flagrant lies in a barely coherent attempt to extract himself from the impeachment quandary that is burying him. But the weakness of his latest arguments is a cringeworthy display of intellectual impotence.<\/p>\n

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Trump made yet another appearance on his favorite Fox News morning program, Fox and Friends. He called in to chat with the “Curvy Couch”<\/em> potatoes and to rail against his perceived enemies in Congress<\/a><\/strong> and the media. It was a forty-five minute spectacle of deranged babbling that even Fox’s hosts seemed to find excessive and exasperating.<\/p>\n

Among the myriad of topics that Trump meandered about as he vainly sought to persuade people that he isn’t criminally insane, was one that he has been obsessed with for three years. It is also one that has been certified as Russian propaganda<\/a><\/strong>. The subject concerns his bizarre notion that a computer server belonging to the Democratic National Committee contains some unspecified evidence of wrongdoing by Democrats. And that server has somehow been transported to Ukraine for unknown reasons. It’s all pretty ludicrous, but oh so Trumpian. His wildly careening rant eventually led to this screwball soliloquy (video below)<\/em>:<\/p>\n

“They have the server from the DNC, Democratic National Committee. The FBI went in they told them ‘Get outta here. We’re not giving it to you.’ They gave the server to Crowdstrike, or whatever you call it. Which is a country…a company owned by a very wealthy Ukrainian. And I still wanna see that server. You know the FBI has never gotten that server. That’s a big part of this whole thing. Why did they give it to a Ukrainian company.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Literally everything in that outburst is false. There is no evidence whatsoever that Ukrainians have any DNC server. Democrats never told the FBI that they couldn’t have it. Infact, the DNC provided the FBI with a mirror copy of it, which is all the FBI ever asked for. Crowdstrike<\/a><\/strong> is not owned by a wealthy Ukrainian. It’s actually a publicly owned U.S. technology company based in Sunnyvale, California. It was founded by two American citizens, one of whom was born in Russia. It would be difficult for Trump to have gotten more wrong in this statement. It was so preposterous that even Fox’s co-host Steve Doocy questioned it:<\/p>\n

Doocy:<\/strong> Are you sure they did that? Are you sure they gave it to Ukraine?
\nTrump:<\/strong> Well, that’s what the word is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So we have now descended to the point that the President of the United States is justifying his ridiculous conspiracy theories by citing “the word”<\/em> of unnamed rumor mongers. Trump’s former White House Homeland Security Adviser, Tom Bossert, recently addressed this nonsense<\/a><\/strong> saying that “It\u2019s not only a conspiracy theory, it is completely debunked.”<\/em> Bossert was also troubled by the fact that this theory was being propagated by Trump’s personal attorney, and executive tripe wrangler, Rudy Giuliani.<\/p>\n

This isn’t the first time Trump has gone haywire over the Case of the Mysterious Server<\/em> Just last month he seemed to have had a mental malfunction that produced this unholy gibberish<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

“I still ask the FBI, where is the server? How come the FBI never got the server from the DNC? Where is the server? I want to see the server. Let\u2019s see what\u2019s on the server. So the server they say is held by a company whose primary ownership individual is from Ukraine. I would like to see the server. I think it\u2019s very important for this country to see the server. Nobody wants to see it. The media never wants to see it. I\u2019ll tell you, Republicans want to see it.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And if you think the text of that is wacko, you should see the video<\/a><\/strong> It is one of the best arguments for the impeachment of Trump as an urgent necessity. But if that isn’t enough, Trump also told the Fox Friends<\/a><\/strong> that “If I didn’t fire Comey, I would be in some trouble right now … It turns out to be the best move I ever made, firing Comey, because they were trying to take me down.”<\/em> And that is as blatant a confession of abuse of power and obstruction of justice as you’re ever likely to see on television. Trump seems to be determined to impeach himself. So let’s help him out and get it done.<\/p>\n

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How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:
\nFox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a>
\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Remember, "Crowdstrike" is the conspiracy theory that Ukraine and the DNC framed Russia. Here's President Trump again pushing this claim, supported by Republicans: that Russia is innocent, didn't interfere in the 2016 election. Who did it? Ukraine and the DNC. pic.twitter.com\/mmSjgKTQJq<\/a><\/p>\n

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) November 22, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n