MSNBC finally got around to covering this story—and naturally, they lifted it straight from Rachel Maddow’s blog. No surprise there. Once again, MSNBC churns out another hit piece, portraying Trump’s every move as some authoritarian tantrum while shielding their beloved deep state operatives.
Maddow’s blog is in full meltdown mode over the DOJ finally investigating corrupt players like Comey and Brennan. Instead of acknowledging the gravity of the allegations, they’re scrambling to reframe it all as “political revenge.” According to them, Comey and Brennan are just helpless victims being bullied by big, bad Trump.
Here’s what they actually wrote:
“Asked about the reporting, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt didn’t confirm the investigations, but the president’s chief spokesperson cheered the news during a Fox News appearance, calling Comey and Brennan ‘disgraceful individuals’ who ‘lied to Congress.’ Leavitt said she’s ‘glad to hear it,’ referencing the reporting on the probes, and added that ‘the truth must come out… That’s what the president believes in.’”
“And while those comments were difficult to take seriously, given Trump’s record of breathtaking dishonesty, the underlying issue is apparently quite real: A DOJ spokesperson confirmed to NBC News that the department has, in fact, opened criminal investigations into Brennan and Comey.”
But instead of asking why these men are under investigation, the blog goes into damage control:
“Let’s not miss the forest for the trees: Brennan and Comey have long been targets, not just of the president’s far-right base — both men appeared, for example, on FBI Director Kash Patel’s so-called enemies list, filled with those he identified as ‘government gangsters’ — but also of the president himself.”
Then they throw in this gem:
“In April, for example, Trump signed two first-of-their-kind executive orders targeting a pair of officials from his first term who defied him. There was barely a pretense in the orders that the targeted former officials — Christopher Krebs and Miles Taylor — had done anything wrong. Indeed, the closer one looked at the stated rationales in support of the directives, the more ridiculous they appeared.”
And my personal favorite:
“Weeks later, Trump broke new ground again, directing the Justice Department to launch a wide-ranging investigation into Joe Biden and officials in the Democrat’s administration, based on Republican conspiracy theories about the former president’s mental health. It was an unprecedented move: An incumbent American president had never before publicly ordered a federal probe of his predecessor.”
“There was a degree of irony to the circumstances. After his defeat in the 2020 election, Trump spent years insisting that Biden had ordered an investigation into him — an odd conspiracy theory for which there is literally no evidence — but Trump then did exactly what he falsely accused his predecessor of doing.”
MSNBC = MSDNC