How can you be pretty damned sure there were classified White House documents illegally squirreled away at Trump’s Florida home? Trump and MAGAland are telling us so. They are so convinced that the FBI’s warranted search of Mar-a-Lago is going to turn up evidence, they’re frantically working to poison it.
The damage control they’ve thrown against the wall is saying that whatever the FBI got out of there, they planted in the first place. A Trump lawyer (astonishingly, he still has some willing to show their faces in public) started by putting that possibility out there.
“I don’t think that there was actually anything there that was worthwhile,” Christina Bobb said, hours after the search. “We’ll see what they come up with. If they did, it will be interesting [...] especially because they precluded me from actually watching what they did.” She continued, “But at this point, I don’t necessarily think they would actually go to the extent of trying to plant information. I think they would just make stuff up and come up with whatever they want.”
And we’re off.
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Newt Gingrich went on Charlie Kirk’s YouTube “show” Tuesday night, where he delivered a QAnon-worthy diatribe of conspiracy theories in which he concluded that Rep. Liz Cheney is somehow behind it all. “And she's part of this. I mean, she is part of the effort to turn the system into a basically a tyrannical, anti-conservative, anti-Republican, constant violation of the law, which is what the January 6 committee is, you know, a fake committee being covered by the fake news with a fake FBI, which, by the way, you'll notice they didn't allow anybody on the Trump side into Mar-a-Lago. So we have no idea whether or not they planted evidence.”
(This is a running theme, by the way, that Trump’s people were kept out of Mar-a-Lago Monday. They weren’t. Eric Trump said he was there. Trump’s lawyers say they were there.)
While Newt was spewing dark persecution fantasies on YouTube, Jesse Waters was on Fox News, claiming that the FBI “probably” was “planting evidence, which is what they did during the Russia hoax. We also have a hunch they doctored evidence to get the warrant—again, what they did during the Russia hoax.” A hunch, you say? A hunch is good enough for MAGAland.
And certainly enough for Fox News. Overnight, the “hoax” progressed from that hunch to the assertion that FBI agents “brought in backpacks” that might have been full of the evidence they were there to plant.
That’s enough for the Donald to run with. He took to his lame-ass Twitter knock-off to do what he does best. Lie.
Lying AND incriminating himself. There are definitely classified national security documents in that trove the FBI seized.
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