Today in Witch-Hunt Culture
10th August 2022
Trump uses FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago home to solicit campaign donations (Reuters) The swine! (This is news?)
How the Republican Party came to embrace conspiracy theories and denialism (NPR)
Why the Fulton County Grand Jury Isn’t Going to Indict Trump (Daily Beast)
Eli Lilly assails Indiana antiabortion law — after plying its supporters with campaign funds (L.A.Times)
Another reason not to work in Indiana (Chicago Sun-Times) Fine, stay in high-crime high-tax Illinois.
Public opinion relatively unchanged after Jan. 6 hearings: poll (The Hill) The Stalinist show-trial didn’t work–hence the raid on Trump’s home.
Ex-Trump aide shares story about Trump mishandling classified documents (CNN)
New hotline to report white supremacist activity has received more than 2 dozen calls (CBS Boston) Can’t have a witch-hunt without witches!
Grisham denies she was source of Haberman’s White House toilet photos (The Hill) Can’t have a War on Trump without toilet photos.
4 Key Questions After FBI Raids Trump’s Home
MSNBC Fearmongers: Mar-a-Lago Raid Will Trigger Terrorism Like OK City Bombing Certainly that’s what the Left would do.
GOP Rep. Scott Perry Says FBI Agents Seized His Cellphone
The Guardian Accuses Republicans Of ‘Weaponising’ Trump-Raid Gee, I think the FBI already did that.
FBI warrant for search of Trump home may involve suspected violations of Espionage Act, former chief of DOJ national security chief says (Michael Isikoff)
Ruhle Demands You Stop Calling The FBI Mar-a-Lago Raid a Raid!
Kevin McCarthy Promises a Republican Congress Will Obstruct Justice (The NationO Well, no, that’s just the Narrative spin. What he said was that the Republicans will start playing hardball, and that’s what the Deep State fears most.
“The Whole Enchilada”: Pundits Wrongly Claim Trump Raid Could Disqualify Him From Future Office
‘It’s Christmas!’ Colbert Celebrates ‘Most Beautiful’ Mar-a-Lago Raid
Exclusive: An Informer Told the FBI What Docs Trump Was Hiding, and Where (Newsweek) And if they had actually found anything significant, we would know it by now; it would have been leaked to somebody in the Narrative Media.
Facebook bans hate speech but still makes money from white supremacists (Washington Post)
Trump and Republicans Are Already Trying to Cash in on the Mar-a-Lago Raid (Rolling Stone) This is news?
FBI agents, Garland and Wray see increased death threats after Trump Mar-a-Lago raid: sources And rightly so.
Josh Hawley, senator-as-symptom of a broken news business (Washington Post) George Will goes full RINO and joins the witch-hunt.
Far-Right Extremists Are Violently Threatening the Trump Search-Warrant Judge (Vice) Welcome to our world. Karma is a bitch.