{"id":54456,"date":"2022-08-30T13:01:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T20:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=54456"},"modified":"2022-08-30T13:08:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T20:08:16","slug":"trump-spins-a-new-crackpot-conspiracy-combining-an-fbi-retiree-mar-a-lago-and-hunter-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=54456","title":{"rendered":"Trump Spins a New Crackpot Conspiracy Combining an FBI Retiree, Mar-a-Lago, and Hunter Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"

He’s at it again. Donald Trump is posting feverishly on his floundering Twitter ripoff, Truth Social<\/a><\/strong>, about the avalanche of atrocities that have been accurately attributed to him. On this Tuesday morning he has pounded out more than 60 rage fueled rants<\/a><\/strong>, mostly reposts of random Truth Socialists and QAnon-sense accounts. And mostly with less than a 1,000 reposts on his thinly trafficked website.<\/p>\n

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Prominent among Trump’s plaintive whining is his paranoid fixation on what he believes to be the world’s determination to destroy his MAGA dreams. His acute victimhood is now focused on a conspiracy theory about a retiring FBI agent who Trump and his cult disciples are convinced is serving some clandestine anti-Trump cabal. Trump spun<\/a> a fantastical tale about a…<\/p>\n

“‘Special Agent’ In Charge of the unprecedented and unnecessary Raid and Break In of Mar-a-Lago [who] was also involved in the hiding and suppressing from the Public and the Media, the ‘Laptop from Hell,’ the 2020 Presidential Election Scam, and so much more!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Trump also insisted that this bogus “scandal”<\/em> warranted that some amorphous, unidentified overlord “Declare [him] the rightful winner”<\/em> of the 2020 election, or “have a new Election, immediately!”<\/em> Which anyone modestly educated about the law and the Constitution knows that that is not how any of this works.<\/p>\n

RELATED: Wannabe Dictator Trump Decrees a Delusional Demand that He Be Anointed American Messiah<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

What Trump is referring to is a report<\/a><\/strong> that Agent Timothy Thibault is retiring after 25 years of service to the FBI. This exceedingly ordinary event has been clutched onto by Republicans and the wingnut press as having some sort of secret and nefarious back story. Along with Trump, they are accusing him of having been in charge of the search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago bunker, as well as the investigation into Hunter Biden’s stolen laptop.<\/p>\n

The truth, however, is quite different. Thibault is a relatively low-level staffer with the D.C. field office. He had no authority to influence either the Biden case or the investigation into Trump’s hoarding of highly sensitive national security materials at his Palm Beach resort\/hotel. Also, the Biden case was actually run out of a different FBI field office and it is still ongoing.<\/p>\n

In any case, the FBI would not have opened a politically charged case in October of 2020, so close to an election. Even Fox News reported<\/a><\/strong> that Thibault had nothing to do with Mar-a-Lago:<\/p>\n

“Thibault was one of 13 assistant special agents in charge at the Washington field office. He was not involved in the FBI raid on former President Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago estate earlier this month at any level.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Trump cultists have been busy maligning law enforcement for allegedly suppressing the probe into Hunter Biden. They complained that “Deep State”<\/em> actors sought to portray the existence of his stolen laptop as Russian propaganda. However, news reports were not saying that the laptop didn’t exist, only that Russia was exploiting the story to foment distrust in American democracy. They were. And, not coincidentally, so was Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

The Trumpies got their latest crackpot theory from an interview of Facebook boss, Mark Zuckerberg, by Joe Rogan. It’s rather telling that when Zuckerberg said that the FBI had warned him of a spike in Russian disinformation, the right-wing echo chamber immediately claimed it was about Hunter Biden, even though Zuckerberg never said that. It’s an utterly false narrative that is also being spread on Fox News…<\/p>\n

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Fox News' "hard news" division just going there today.<\/p>\n

Anchor John Roberts: "Top FBI agent out of a job days after Mark Zuckerberg revealed Facebook limited distribution of the Hunter Biden laptop story. Is it a coincidence?" pic.twitter.com\/evQjT7PSAt<\/a><\/p>\n

— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) August 30, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n