In other news, the Donald Trump campaign continues to be staffed by only the best and highest-quality lunatics. Today's exhibit: Trump's press release caterwauling about the FBI's decision not to indict Hillary Clinton even though a large collection of Republicans really, really super-wanted that. We'll skip to the end.
[B]ecause of our rigged system that holds the American people to one standard and people like Hillary Clinton to another, it does not look like she will be facing the criminal charges that she deserves.
Deserves because why? It's still not clear. House Republicans have spent more time investigating Hillary Clinton's email than they did all the embassy bombings of the past twenty years, and still managed to come up with a final report that was less searing indictment and more soda-burp. Nonetheless, Donald Trump and his campaign staff will use this as the jumping-off point for any number of frothing lunacies because, well, that is what they do.
Bill Clinton didn't accidentally run into the Attorney General on the airport tarmac last week in Phoenix.
Is the working theory now to be that Bill Clinton is stalking the Attorney General?
Hillary Clinton didn't accidentally sneak into the FBI during one of the country's biggest holiday weekends to testify on her illegal activities, something that wouldn't be afforded to others under investigation (and on a Saturday of all days).
"Accidentally sneak?" Are we to imagine scenes of Clinton breaking into the FBI, Watergate-style, so that they could interview her at the pre-appointed time in the pre-appointed place?
It was no accident that charges were not recommended against Hillary the exact same day as President Obama campaigns with her for the first time.
Does anyone on the staff of Donald Trump's nationwide presidential campaign realize that despite Trump's personal theories, most political appearances are scheduled ahead of time?
This really is the Breitbart presidential run. Donald Trump has managed to surround himself with staffers who feverishly promote even the tiniest fragments of whatever conspiracy theory any of them have come into contact with; the way to ingratiate yourself to the great orange man himself is, apparently, to bring him snippets of news gleaned from the craziest sites on the internet and nod your head as he reads them back to you aloud. Is it any wonder that he gives interviews to American conspiracy-theory kingpin Alex Jones? Is it even the slightest bit surprising that he continues to tweet out images and "facts" culled from far-right white supremacist websites?
This is your Republican Party now. It didn't start with Trump, but he's sure augering it in.