TRUMP DELIVERED A BOGUS MESSAGE OF "THUGS ON A PLANE"

…The law enforcement personnel in Kenosha look like the “thugs” that Trump described, being on a recent airline flight

Trump's imagination gets more bizarre as the election date gets closer

While trying to define Democratic rival Joe Biden as a supporter of lawless anarchists, President Trump has warned about rioters in the streets of Democratic run American cities.  Trump has also fanned fears of low-income minorities invading the suburbs.

But this week, he offered us another new alert: “Thugs wearing dark uniforms,” he told Fox News host Laura Ingraham, had crowded onto a plane to fly to Washington and wreak havoc at the Republican National Convention (RNC) last week.  (This just happens to be a rumor that started on Social Media and it was picked up by Trump for his campaign efforts.)

“A lot of people were on the plane to do big damage,” Trump declared this in the prime-time interview Monday.  As usual, there was no information as to what flight, or what Airline or any details to the “rumor” that was obviously just another fable from the mind of the president.

It was so obvious that the president was making things up as he went on and on in the interview.  Ms. Ingraham tried in vain to get the right answers out of the president, but once the Trump Train of Falsehoods starts, it’s almost impossible to stop.

When asked to elaborate on his story Tuesday, the president told reporters that a well-known figure, who was also aboard the phantom flight, had informed him of the "thugs". “The entire plane was filled up with the looters, the anarchists, the rioters, people that obviously were looking for trouble.”  

OK, who was the “well-known figure”?  If he was so well known, why not say who it was?  Also, how did anyone know they were “looters and anarchists, and rioters” did they have tattoos saying so?  Oh, then Trump had to add that one of them did have a “QAnon tattoo”.  How convenient, and of course the “well known figure” was the one that saw the tattoo.  Of course.

Lacking any details, this fantastical tale took on a wild, conspiratorial concept of a subversive foreign government’s disinformation campaign. I can only imagine that this kind of B.S. would be even much too much for a real autocratic government, such as Russia.  The fact that it was coming from Trump on a popular cable news show, just highlights how his long-standing willingness to promote and disseminate conspiracy theories has become so central to his re-election effort.  An effort that continues to be foundering during the coronavirus pandemic.

Even the Trump supporter, Ms. Ingraham, had to ask, “What does that mean? That sounds like a conspiracy theory,” after Trump stated that people in “dark shadows were controlling Biden’s agenda”.

Over the last months, Trump has commented on the effects of sunlight, bleach and hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malaria drug, as potentially beneficial to protect against the coronavirus.  All this despite severe warnings from medical authorities that such items are ineffective or even dangerous. But Trump has promoted more false conspiracies, one called “Obamagate” which says that, “Biden and other Obama administration figures tried to spy on Trump's 2016 campaign”.

Trump has also publicly and personally embraced the QAnon movement.  This movement supposedly states that “Trump is defending the country against a satanic cult of pedophiles.”  And of course, Trump refuses to repudiate or discredited the theory that Biden’s running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), whose parents immigrated to the United States, is ineligible to serve as vice president.  He has also invited questions from reporters for One America News, Gateway Pundit and the Epoch Times, these are those fringe publications that are pro-Trump outlets that traffic in his and other’s falsehoods, conspiracy theories and hoaxes.

“The thing that concerns me is that people are looking to blame someone in all these crises, and so, what Trump is able to do is to give them a target to shift blame onto something else. These are very convenient conspiracy theories for him to play off of,” said Marc Ginsberg, a former US Ambassador to Morocco under President Bill Clinton.  Ginsberg is now the president of the Coalition for a Safer Web.

Ginsberg’s organization has examined ties between QAnon, white-nationalist groups and Republican politicians. The president’s conspiratorial talk about anarchists on the streets during the social justice protests has seriously contributed, Ginsberg said, to pro-Trump elements on the far right rallying to defend him as self-styled militias.

It is obvious how desperate Trump is becoming as he continues to drop in the polls.

But what is so frightening is that there are so many dullards out there that believe anything that Trumps says...?

Hopefully, enough Americans out there will NOT. “Drink the Kool-Aid,” and will NOT vote for this idiot.

Copyright  G. Ater 2020