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Fox News, Newsmax and the GOP are now Terrorist Organizations [1]

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Date: 2022-08-12

Here you have Rep. Elise Stefanik attempting in rapid-fire to attack the FBI with accusation after accusation for their executing a search warrant on Mar-A-Lago, and then Steve Doocy -— Steve Fracking Doocy — immediately points out that it was Trump himself who appointed the current FBI Director.

x .@RepStefanik: [word salad about FBI]

Doocy the Elder: Trump appointed the FBI director. Isn't it a big deal if there were nuclear secrets at Mar-a-Lago?

Stefanik: [more word salad] pic.twitter.com/yngAtkw2Ei — Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) August 12, 2022

“Russia, Russia, Russia.… Hillary.… Hunter.… planted evidence… blah blah blah.”

“Christopher Wray?”

We hear all the talking points, but you know what we don't hear? We don’t hear anyone denounce the doxxing and death threats against the Judge who signed the warrant.

Instead, we hear that the judge donated to Barack Obama's campaign, that he represented employees connected to Jeffrey Epstein, and that he also donated to Trump opponent Jeb Bush in 2016.

They ignore that he was appointed to the bench by Trump in 2018. And yet, less than two weeks after we had all the right-wing clamour over people protesting the Supreme Court over their overturning Roe V Wade, we have this.

The judge who signed the search warrant for the FBI to search Mar-a-Lago is facing violent threats from Donald Trump's supporters, Vice News reported on Wednesday. “Let's find out if he has children... where they go to school, where they live... EVERYTHING,” wrote a person on a message board where the judge's address was posted. Individuals have posted the judges name, address, phone number and members of his family. The information was then followed by violent threats “This is the piece of sh*t judge who approved FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago. I see a rope around his neck," wrote a fan who posted on a a pro-Trump message board previously called TheDonald. “Idgaf [I don’t give a f*ck] anymore. Name? Address? Put that shit all up on here,” someone else responded. Another person replied again with the judge's personal information.

We also don’t hear any acknowledgment that their rhetoric has directly contributed to an attack on the Cinnicinatti Field office of the FBI.

On Thursday, The Daily Beast reported that police have finished the standoff with the suspect behind the shooting at an FBI field office in Cincinnati, Ohio after he led them on a chase that culminated in hours in a cornfield. "The gunman, who has not been identified, fled over 40 miles northeast with the Ohio State Patrol giving chase after he failed to breach the federal building around 9 a.m. As he fled, authorities say gunfire was exchanged between officers and the suspect, who took cover in a cornfield for more than five hours," reported Josh Fiallo. "While the standoff is over, authorities have not said whether the gunman was arrested or killed. The announcement to lift all lockdown recommendations came at 4:25 p.m. from Clinton County Emergency Management." "As cops chased the gunman through the rural community of Wilmington, the county’s emergency management agency told residents within a one-mile radius to stay inside, lock their doors, and 'remain vigilant.' The gunman was described as armed, wearing a gray shirt and body armor," said the report. "Interstate 71 — an important artery that connects Cincinnati to the state’s capital, Columbus — was closed for several hours before being reopened around 2:30 p.m. as local authorities confirmed the gunman was 'contained,' despite not being arrested." "Ohio State Patrol said that the gunman was surrounded in the cornfield, adding that no officers had been injured," the report continued. "It’s unclear if the suspect had been struck by cops’ return fire during the chase." The motive for the suspect, who was reportedly armed with an AR-15 style rifle and a nail gun, is not currently known.

Well, we now have a motive. The shooter was a Trump supporter and a fan of Marjorie Taylor Greene who was at the January 6 attack.

The man wearing body armor and armed with an assault-style rifle who allegedly attempted to breach the Cincinnati FBI building may have Jan. 6 ties, according to The New York Times. "Investigators are looking into whether the man who tried to breach the F.B.I.’s field office in Cincinnati on Thursday had ties to extremist groups, including one that participated in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, according to two law enforcement officials familiar with the matter," the newspaper reported. "The suspect, identified by the officials as Ricky Shiffer, 42, seems to have appeared in a video posted on Facebook on Jan. 5, 2021, showing him attending a pro-Trump rally at Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington the night before the Capitol was stormed." The newspaper zeroed in on an unverified Twitter account that follows Donald Trump, Jr. and one other account. In a March 7 tweet, the account said, "I was there" in a discussion about Jan. 6. That same day he responded to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) by apparently attempting to invoke America's Revolutionary War, but got his history wrong as to the year. "Congresswoman Greene, they got away with fixing elections in plain sight. It's over. The next step is the one we used in 1775," the account wrote. Later that night the account wrote, "Save ammunition, get in touch with the Proud Boys and learn how they did it in the Revolutionary War, because submitting to tyranny while lawfully protesting was never the American way. LEXINGTON."

To his credit, Rep. Eric Swalwell has called this bullshit out.

x x YouTube Video "From your perspective, when days like this happen, when you have a would-be terrorist attack the FBI office in Cincinnati after having a conversation with Marjorie Taylor Greene, how does it feel going back to work, how do you feel the next time you go back to Congress that you have colleagues who encourage violent terrorists?" asked anchor Jason Johnson.



"It's sickening where we have arrived, we is to say, somebody's going to get killed," said Swalwell. "Well, people died on January 6th. And today, when it's just most intolerable is in the last 48 hours since the FBI search Donald Trump's home, you can draw directly from what Kevin McCarthy, Steve Scalise, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lindsey Graham all said, threats against law enforcement, the lies that they told about law enforcement and what these individuals foisted online before he took up arms against the FBI. And it's a little personal for me because I have two brothers who are law enforcement officers. All law enforcement officers could be targets, argued Swalwell, not just the FBI — they might even go after local city cops on the street. "We know these guys are not geniuses, they are targeting law enforcement, so they have a lot of people wearing the uniform who are sitting ducks right now," said Swalwell. "Someone is fired up and being told by Kevin McCarthy that these folks are going rogue are these folks are not like they're going to look for FBI agents, they will go after any law enforcement officer they see. So they are at risk. This party, by the way, who has told us for so long that they back the blue and Democrats want to defund the police — when you talk like this, it doesn't sound like you are pro-cop. It sounds like you are pro-coup."

So they lie about Robert Mueller. They lie about Hillary Clinton. They lie about Hunter Biden. They accuse the FBI of committing crimes and they completely ignore that a former White House resident may have been trading in Nuclear Secrets, probably with a foreign nation.

And then armed with these lies, they attack. This was certainly not the first attack of this type. We’ve had dozens of them, from Cesar Sayoc the MAGA Bomber to Steve Carillo the Boogaloo Boi who murdered a Federal Guard in Oakland to the various armed assaults on State Capitols, the plot to kidnap and murder Governor Whitmer to the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. They all know damn well what’s going to happen as a result of the lies they spread, and yet — they spread them anyway.

All of that is exactly what it seems like, terrorism.

They've not only failed to denounce this - they’ve also endorsed and supported it. That’s the difference.

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