*Subject:**In town pool report #2- arrival*
Motorcade arrived at the Trump National golf at 11:09
Pool peeled off as the motorcade entered the course and is now holding at a restaurant nearby.
*Date:* June 16, 2018 at 5:04:36 PM EDT
*Subject:* *In town pool report #4- WH arrival*
Pool arrived at the White House at 5:04pm.
Pool briefly glimpsed POTUS exit the motorcade in a white shirt and white hat
So there’s a propaganda narrative that should become more fulsome soon, simply because of all the actual news being so… strange. A Trumpist GOP has numerous parallel universes in which they’d like the US to exist even if it wouldn’t be democratic.
- If you’re inclined to vote Republican already but uncomfortable with Trump’s more extreme positions, you can just tell yourself it’s all an act for voters and the “real” version is Pence/Haley. Or if you’re in his base, just tell yourself it’s the other side putting on the show.
- “You can’t con an honest man,” is the phrase I always thought of at rallies in 2016. Few people really believe everything Trump says, but tons of them believe they’re the smart one who knows what’s *really* going on underneath the public statements.
- Incidentally, the wackiest *pro Trump* conspiracy theories reflect this dynamic. The Qanon conspiracy, which Roseanne fell for, assumes Trump’s praise for Russia and attacks on Mueller are fake and they’re teaming up on a secret investigation into Dems.
Like Pizzagate, the Storm conspiracy features secret cabals, a child sex-trafficking ring led (in part) by the satanic Democratic Party, and of course, countless logical leaps and paranoid assumptions that fail to hold up under the slightest fact-based scrutiny. However, unlike Pizzagate, the Storm isn’t focused on a single block of shops in D.C., or John Podesta’s emails. It’s much, much bigger than that.