Quote (IceMage @ Apr 5 2023 02:14am)
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1643395421652365312A great example of how right-wing media operates. Jesse Watters mirrors the Trumpshill talking points that legitimate investigations of Trump and his associates are "personally orchestrated" by the presidents at the time, even though there's no evidence of that. The blame does not fall on Trump(and the cronies he hired) for the bad behavior, because, based on cult logic, Trump is not capable of bad behavior. The problem lies with the investigators tasked with looking into his bad behavior, and Obama/Biden for allowing an independent DOJ to run investigations without political interference.
Watters doesn't even bother presenting any evidence that Biden personally orchestrated any of these investigations... there's simply an assumption of corrupt wrongdoing of the sort that Trump tried(and failed) to do.
We spent several years of the Crossfire Hurricane campaign being told it had nothing to do with Obama or Biden and was entirely the product of apolitical actors in the DoJ. We saw their obvious political affiliations and motivations and conspiracies at face value, but only much later did we learn Obama just straight up hosted Comey & Yates & co in the oval office with Biden present (on January 5th, 2017), just to give express permission to go ahead with trying to persecute Trump. That's one problem with a regime that centralizes authority, even for all the bias and enmity the toadies held, they were still too afraid of acting independently that they needed a face-to-face meeting that stripped Obama of his ability to keep his hands clean of the affair. We know that Obama and Biden both signed off on it personally. And all they can say in defense is that he only ordered them to rid them of his turbulent priest 'by the book'
Right now we have no evidence Biden personally orchestrated
this investigation. None at all as far as I'm aware. And if anything I'd personally doubt it, because the fall of Afghanistan showed that instead of a wizard behind a curtain, we have a geriatric asleep at the wheel. But there's certainly plenty of reason to speculate its possible. In another 6 years, will we be talking about how Biden and Harris tried to have a meeting with Bragg's daughter to pass along orders to get the orange man, but Biden spoiled it by trying to grope her?
This post was edited by Goomshill on Apr 5 2023 01:48am