FBI was in on Jan. 6? Italian satellites swapped votes?
By Sid Schwab / Herald columnist
“Unindicted co-conspirators.” Makes a person think. If by “think” one means “completely mischaracterize the concept.” When used in a Department of Justice report on January’s insurrection, it made Tucker Carlson “think” of the FBI. “Incredible bombshell,” he called it. After which, several Republican loonies in Congress gobbled it up like orange wedges at a kids’ soccer match.
To Tucker “Starts-with-T-but-there-are-alternatives” Carlson, the term could only mean Trump’s anti-American insurrection was an FBI operation. To people able to maintain contact with reality, though, it more likely refers to seditionists who laid plans but for which there’s currently inadequate evidence to indict; or to those who stoked anger to murderous levels on the morning of. Mo Brooks, Rudy Giuliani, Ted Cruz for examples. And, of course, the outvoted “president.” That’s how Nixon was described, after all, back when gates stopped being just things that open and close.
To rationalize their anti-democracy voter suppression laws (because fair elections would doom them, R senators just blocked even discussion, much less a vote, on the For the People Act), Republicans must keep alive the myth of massive election fraud. To keep the lie Trumpophilically credible, they’re morphing the murderous insurrection it engendered into something innocent; or created by deep-state agents, or liberals; or which never happened at all. What other explanation is there for the Republican representatives who voted against honoring the Capitol police? If they didn’t honor them, it didn’t happen. If it didn’t happen, there’s no complicity for those peddling Trump’s big lie.
As to Tucker, they come for the conspiracies and stay for the lies. Who doubts that millions of the Trumpofoxified are buying his FBI connivance, after he repeated it, repeatedly? (New Yorker:tinyurl.com/Tnogood)
Which raises an interesting question: if Tucker’s like-mindless Congress-dwellers believe his deep-state confabulation, why vote against a commission to investigate? Wouldn’t they ride the wave of revealed, awful truth to perpetual power? To which the answer can only be, they don’t. What they do believe, then, is that Trumpublicans can be convinced of anything; so they keep them hot, bothered, ignorant of and distracted from their real, deep six agenda. By what evidence can anyone say they’re wrong?
https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/schwab-fbi-was-in-on-jan-6-italian-satellites-swapped-votes/
