REX TILLERSON DID CORRECTLY CALL THE PRESIDENT AS HE SAW HIM

 

“ALL HIS LIES” SHOW HOW WORRIED THE PRESIDENT IS TODAY

 

…Trump’s bizarre interview with Fox’s Laura Ingraham.

More false statements coming from the president, with absolutely no supporting evidence

On Tuesday, Trump visited Kenosha, Wis., where a 17-year-old who attended a Trump campaign rally in January was charged with murder in the shooting deaths of two men during a night of street protests last week. In Portland, Or.  Another man, who appeared to be connected with a pro-Trump group, was shot and killed over the weekend as supporters of the president clashed with peaceful protesters.

“He’s giving ammunition as the figurehead to all these groups that more or less support his agenda,” A Kenosha Biden supporter said. “If he was discounting them and disowning them and marginalizing them, I don’t think they [the pro-Trump group] would feel as empowered.”

White House spokeswoman Sarah Matthews defended Trump’s Fox News interview with Laura Ingraham, by saying that his anecdote about “thugs on a plane” was intended to raise questions about “who may be funding travel and lodging for organized rioters” in U.S. cities.

Yes, the White House is saying that without any evidence, they are accusing any supporters on the left of paying for the phantom “thugs” to travel on the phantom airplanes.  All of these so called “thugs,” and the plane they flew on, are only a figment of Trump’s warped imagination.

It is true that after the president’s re-nomination address at the Republican National Convention (RNC), pro Biden protesters did approach Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and other Trump supporters as they filed out of the White House grounds onto public streets.  But they weren’t “thugs”.  They were the opposition by-standers that were giving the Trump supporters much less than what those rioters, such as the 17 year old illegal gun owner and now murderer, were doing in Kenosha.

Back in Kenosha, to prove the point, that it wasn’t the “thugs” that Trump was accusing the Democrats of supporting.  The citizen from Kenosha said, “The violent rioters who were arrested hailed from 44 different cities. An investigation is underway to determine who is funding these organized riots happening across the country.”

As expected, on the day after the two murders, Trump’s account of the “looters” on the plane began changing from what he had said the night before. Trump told Ingraham that the plane was headed to Washington, while on Tuesday he said it going from Washington “to wherever.” He also said on Monday that he couldn’t say more about the incident because it was under investigation, but then he told reporters Tuesday that he would ask his acquaintance whether they would talk to the news media about what that person supposedly saw on the plane.  Just more imagination from the president.

Trump’s story about the plane is similar to unfounded assertions posted on Facebook and other social media sites earlier this year that alleged, of course, without evidence, that there was a secret network organizing protesters and transporting them to different areas of social unrest across the country….yeah right!

Trump has willfully promoted baseless conspiracies for years, rising to political prominence a decade ago as a leader of the false “birther” movement that sought to discredit President Barack Obama as foreign-born. In the final days before the 2016 election, Trump’s campaign released an advertisement suggesting that a shadowy cabal of wealthy, Jewish elites, including financier George Soros, then-Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and Goldman Sachs chief executive Lloyd Blankfein.  They were supposedly intent on maintaining a “globalist” economic system and were orchestrating Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

This cycle, Trump has seized on the protest movement to promote his “law and order” message that has framed Black Lives Matter (BLM) and other liberal groups as lawless mobs intent on riding a Biden presidency to upend America’s social fabric. In his lying, Trump is the lone figure strong enough to stop that threat, and he has heavily courted law enforcement groups and denounced Democratic mayors and governors as failing to keep their streets safe.

In Kenosha, Trump met with law enforcement officials, but he did not meet with the family of Jacob Blake.  The Black man who was shot in the back by police last week, prompting street protests.

Before leaving Washington, Trump told reporters that he had watched coverage of the protests and saw people breaking into the home of Kenosha Mayor John Antaramian (D), who had asked the president to refrain from visiting over concerns that his presence would inflame community tensions.

The president’s remarks, Mayor Antaramian said Tuesday, were “completely false.”

“I want to dispel the president’s statement that angry mobs were trying to get into my house last night,” he said. “Nothing of the sort happened.”

Mark Fenster, author of the 2008 book “Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture,” said Trump is “not really a conspiracy theorist in the classic sense” because he’s not interested in unearthing evidence.

“He does not sit in the library and comb sources to piece together bits of information to devise a conspiracy,” said Fenster, a law professor at the University of Florida. “It’s all intuitive, or he picks it up from someone else. He’s really more of a conspiracy broadcaster.”

Trump allies said his ties to fringe groups such as QAnon are exaggerated by the media, pointing out that the president had never mentioned that movement, whose adherents have held signs at his rallies, until a reporter asked him about it two weeks ago.

“Well, I don’t know much about the movement,” Trump responded, “other than I understand they like me very much, which I appreciate.”

Allies also noted that White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows did affirm that Kamala Harris, does meet the requirements to hold the vice presidency.  This must have really pissed-off the president.

Yet experts on extremist groups warned that the president’s embrace of conspiracy theories has helped accelerate the mainstream of once-fringe ideas.  Last week, Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, a QAnon adherent who won a primary in a Georgia congressional race, attended Trump’s re-nomination speech at the White House. Trump, who praised Greene, who has said Muslims don’t have a place in Congress, Trump had referred to as a “future Republican Star” in a tweet last month.

Clint Watts, who is a former FBI agent who provided key testimony to Congress on Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election.  He said the president’s bizarre efforts to blame “antifa”, which is a loosely defined phantom movement of far-left, anti-fascist groups.  They are being blamed for provoking violence amid the social justice protests.  They have also supposedly contributed to much of the severe misinformation…?

Far-right groups, Watts did say that these groups present a significant threat of domestic terrorism.

But Trump is exceedingly effective at “boiling everything down to the most basic component,” he added. “Don’t create some intricate narrative. Just go, ‘Antifa, antifa, protests, antifa, guys on a plane, antifa.’ It’s all scary things.”

Yes, this is all from our current man in the White House that we have to evict on November 3^rd.

Copyright G. Ater 2020