Austyn Crites, a Republican who isn’t voting for Trump, is America’s newest supervillain. First, there was his blatant attempted assassination of Donald Trump …
The man whose protest saw Donald Trump rushed off the stage by Secret Service agents has said the Republican nominee’s supporters turned on him when he held up a sign reading: “Republicans against Trump.”
Trump bravely ran away from the stage. Trump supporters also bravely ran away from the stage.
Hundreds of people fled to the the back of the auditorium in panic as Trump was hurriedly rushed from the stage by his security detail.
The myth of Trump’s courageous fight against a very dangerous man was already being tweeted before Crites had even left the auditorium. And now Crites is back—this time to rig the election.
Austyn Crites, a Republican protester who was assaulted at a Trump rally in Nevada, was stunned to see a TV report associating him with fraudulent voting connected to a grandmother Fox News claimed died in 2002.
If his grandmother was tuned in, she was probably even more shocked … because she’s not dead.
She was alive and well, although somewhat baffled that she was having to prove her identity to correct a TV broadcast that reported that she died 14 years ago.
“Please correct the record,” she said, arms crossed.
It’s Fox News. They don’t do corrections. In fact, they’re still using her deadness (lie down, ma’am) as proof that Democrats are out to steal Election Day.
The Fox News host Brian Kilmeade couched his segment about Crites and his grandmother, which was labelled “Reno Trump protester linked to voter fraud”, as evidence that voting scams are not as unusual as Democrats claim. …
“He claimed he was a Republican, but it turns out he’s a huge Hillary supporter, and his grandmother has been using [his] address to vote absentee for years. But she’s been dead since 2002.”
The Trump campaign hasn’t lifted a single digit to take back or alter the stream of tweets and statements made, not just in the immediate confusion after Crites was tackled at a Trump rally, but hours later. The opening speaker at Trump’s next rally even treated the crowd to a harrowing account of how Trump had survived almost certain death and returned to the stage in a show of courage and patriotic fervor.
The odds that Fox News will admit that they’ve invented this story just to bolster a shared talking point with Trump?
The Fox News host then turned to J Christian Adams, a former Department of Justice attorney and pundit for the network. “This is going on all over the country,” Adams said. “It’s a federal felony.”
It would be, if it was, but it’s not and … oh, hell. Never mind. Just go vote.