WH Boosts Trump’s Shocking Effort To Smear Elderly Victim Of Police Brutality

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Wednesday morning defended President Donald Trump’s tweet that baselessly suggested Martin Gugino, a 75-year-old activist who was knocked unconscious when two Buffalo police officers shoved him onto the pavement last week, was a “provocateur” in a false flag operation.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1313744

It truly is a cult. Just like any other cult, membership requires that you suspend reality in favor of whatever the cult leader says is true.

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“He was flinging poo that needed to be flung. How could he just see all that poo sitting right there, right in front of him, and not fling it? What kind of president would he be?”

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Kayleigh - you are disgraceful.

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“The President was raising questions based on a report that he saw. They’re questions that need to be asked,” McEnany McInaney told the co-hosts of “Fox and Friends.”

FIFY!

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Every new press secretary makes sure to show right away that they have dramatically lowered the bar.

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Fuck. This. Noise.

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With the lead-up, incident and aftermath all caught on camera, she’s right — there are many questions raised by this. Questions like “did they read 1984 and think it was an instruction manual?” and “can you even hear what you sound like?”

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So who brought the poo to the shithead? Hmm wouldn’t that be a nice investigation?

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“The President was raising questions based on a report that he saw. They’re questions that need to be asked,” McEnany told the co-hosts of “Fox and Friends.”

Also, what’s up with the pedophile ring operating out of the basement of Comet Pizza? Just asking questions that need to be asked.

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The full power of the WH and their media machines are targeting a private citizen exercising his First Amendment right. A 75 yr old man was pushed to the ground by a member of the Buffalo PD, sustained a severe head injury that landed him in the ICU. The cruelty is the point. This administration is both shameless and a bottomless pit of evil and corruption.

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I guess some reporter should have just asked her “Kayleigh, honey, did you watch the video?” Start with the simple questions for simple minds.

(God help the lawyer that has to question her in a deposition)

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Someone is supposed to care what an animatronic sex toy says or does?

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And then move on to more salient ones like, “since the president commands the greatest intelligence assets in the world, why does he use OAN as a primary source?”

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Here’s a question that needs to be asked … and answered -

How fucking despicable and insane does Trump need to be before Republicans in Congress and around the country actually give a shit?

Sigh, I know … rhetorical question.

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Because Trump’s conspiracy theory (pulled out of you know where) should overcome the video and the charges filed against the officers…yep…in Trump dictator world!

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Why doesn’t she go and do a webcam show for a living, it can’t possibly be worse for her reputation and doesn’t hurt the country or anyone else anyone .

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“Because he trusts them more. And they tell him what he wants to hear. Next question?”

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To be asked: “When did you start having sex with the President?”

Because: “no one condones any sort of violence,” but “there are a lot of questions in that case.”

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This is so shockingly dumb and bad that I have to wonder what the game is here. Do they honestly believe that they will win hearts and minds this way? Are they ginning up a confrontation with the Catholic church? Is it all just about making the cult drink the Kool-Aid?

It’s definitely the Trump pattern to say and do things that are just more outrageous than the last, but this particular one is strange to me. The chosen enemy is not a person of color (especially a woman), he’s a 75 year old man with deep roots in the faith-based peace community, who could be anybody’s grandfather. I don’t see how they can successfully paint him as the enemy, except to the most extreme of the cult.

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