A Confused Donald Trump Posts Witch Hunt Tweet that Actually Debunks His Witch Hunt Claim
Donald J. Trump
✔@realDonaldTrump
According to the Failing New York Times, the FBI started a major effort to flip Putin loyalists in 2014-2016.
“It wasn’t about Trump, he wasn’t even close to a candidate yet.”
Rigged Witch Hunt!
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2:21 PM - Sep 3, 2018
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Matthew Rosenberg
✔@AllMattNYT
· Sep 3, 2018
It’s nice to quoted by the president, but he’s dropped a crucial part of what I said:
By the fall of 2016, the outreach to Deripaska did turn to Russia’s possible aid to the Trump campaign.
FBI agents specifically asked Deripaska if Manafort was campaign’s link to the Kremlin.
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Matthew Rosenberg
✔@AllMattNYT
The president is also misconstruing larger point:
The fact the outreach to oligarchs started before he was a candidate is indicates
Ohr & Steele were not part of a “witch hunt” or “deep state” plot.
The outreach only turned to Trump after a separate FBI investigation was underway
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3:03 PM - Sep 3, 2018
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So in this one tweet,
Trump managed to debunk his own witch hunt conspiracy theory
and to exonerate all of the "Deep State" conspirators that are such a core part of his warped imagination.
And, of course, by extension,
he validates the credibility of the FBI's work
which only snagged him as a consequence of the evidence turned up in their prior, unrelated investigation.
It takes a special kind of stupid to do all of that in one little tweet.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/9/3/1793070/-A-Confused-Donald-Trump-Posts-Witch-Hunt-Tweet-that-Actually-Debunks-His-Witch-Hunt-Claim?detail=emaildkre?detail=emaildkre
now his minions will have to twist themselves into a smaller pretzel to make their conspiracy lunacy fit
lol
