The FBI LIES About Failed Trump Assassination ｜ 8⧸1⧸24
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Summary
If you lie to Congress, you go to jail. The rules are simple, and they certainly apply to conservatives. Steve Bannon is currently serving a prison sentence for contempt of Congress because he refused to testify in a politically motivated inquiry centered on the events of January 6, 2021. However, FBI Director Christopher Wray and Deputy Director Paul Abbott have both blatantly lied to Congress about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. Neither of these men hesitated to lie, nor do they expect to face consequences for their flagrant disregard of the truth.
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If you lie to Congress under oath, you go to jail.
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The rules are simple, and they certainly apply to conservatives.
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Steve Bannon is currently serving a prison sentence for contempt of Congress
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because he refused to testify in a politically motivated inquiry
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However, FBI Director Christopher Wray and Deputy Director Paul Abbott
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have both blatantly lied to Congress about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.
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nor do they expect to face consequences for their flagrant disregard of the truth.
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The FBI is a dangerous rogue agency that regularly acts with political malice
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The agency now appears to be involved in a coordinated misinformation campaign
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surrounding the shooting of a former president,
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and it doesn't expect anyone to hold it accountable.
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When the iconic photo of a bloody Trump pumping his fist after a failed assassination attempt
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first appeared, progressives reacted by immediately spinning out several conspiracy theories.
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The heroic image of the former president simply could not exist alongside the left's conception of Trump
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as a cowardly con man stoking the resentment of white Americans to make a few dollars.
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At first, the hysterical social media mob concocted an elaborate narrative about the great orange Hitler
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paying a skilled sharpshooter to graze his ear,
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creating a bloody but non-lethal spectacle that would become the new rice stag fire
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This fiction proved too absurd even for the rabid and delusional Trump haters,
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It was broken glass, not a bullet that ultimately struck the real estate tycoon.
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The theory wasn't as satisfying, but sounded slightly more plausible.
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Celebrities quickly joined leftist news outlets in speculating that Trump hadn't taken a bullet at all,
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It's worth noting that Alex Jones faced a $1.5 billion judgment
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after a jury determined that he made false claims about the Sandy Hook shooting.
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Despite photos clearly showing a bullet mid-flight during the event,
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this conspiracy theory was enthusiastically repeated by those hoping to blunt the impact
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of Trump's courage in the aftermath of the attempted assassination.
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The shrapnel conspiracy theory was stupid and obviously false,
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so it was very strange to hear FBI Director Christopher Wray last week offer it as a possible
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explanation for Trump's injury when he testified in Congress.
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Wray, who was appointed by Trump, isn't the kind of guy who just walks into a congressional
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hearing and repeats whatever he hears on MSNBC.
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Wray operates the nation's premier law enforcement agency and has access to high-level briefings.
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The director would have been perfectly aware of what really happened to Trump,
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yet he chose to insert a blatant lie into his own testimony,
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Wray inserted this lie because he knows that he's above the law.
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Authorities have released suspiciously little information about the man who attempted to kill
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Like Audrey Hale, the trans shooter responsible for the deaths of six people at a Christian
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school in Nashville last year, the motives of Thomas Matthew Crooks may prove inconvenient
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for those in power, prompting law enforcement to work hard to conceal them.
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Initially, it appeared that Crooks was the only 20-year-old with no social media footprint in
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the year of our Lord 2024, and there was no indication of his political leanings.
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Then the FBI revealed that it had discovered one account on the social media platform Gab
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that it believes belonged to the failed assassin.
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For those unfamiliar, Gab is a social media website with a radical commitment to free speech.
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Due to its dedication to open conversation, the site is dominated by very right-wing users
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Progressives and their allies in law enforcement want to paint Crooks as a disgruntled right-winger
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angry with an insufficiently radical Trump, but that simply isn't the case.
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According to documents released by CEO Andrew Torba, the shooter was on Gab, but spent his
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time trolling conservatives, making pro-Biden posts, and supporting the administration's
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On Tuesday, Deputy Director Paul Abbott was called in front of Congress to testify.
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While being questioned by Senator John Kennedy, Abbott contradicted Ray's previous testimony.
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He made it clear that Trump was most definitely hit by a bullet and went on to claim that no
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Now, it would be odd enough if Abbott had simply testified under oath that his boss had committed
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perjury on live television, but Abbott proceeded to spin his own falsehood in front of the committee.
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The existence and content of Crooks' Gab account was already public knowledge, as Torba had
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released the information after receiving a request from law enforcement.
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Despite this fact, Abbott appeared to perjure himself by testifying that Crooks' social media
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account had posted 700 comments with anti-immigrant and anti-Semitic views, and that this was the
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only social media activity available to elucidate the shooter's motives.
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Torba immediately took to Twitter and presented the FBI's information request along with the
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posts in which Crooks revealed a political ideology very, very different from the one portrayed
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Now, it's always possible that Abbott was referring to a previously unknown account, but the deputy
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director specifically failed to mention the pro-Biden Gab posts.
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There is zero chance that a framing like that is accidental, and from the evidence available,
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it seems likely that Abbott knowingly lied under oath to misrepresent Crooks' political leanings
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and create the public narrative that the notoriously biased FBI would prefer.
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The events surrounding the shooting of Donald Trump and the tremendous security failures
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The fact that the FBI leaders are willing to add to the air of mistrust by championing
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wild conspiracy theories and perjuring themselves in front of Congress is utterly bizarre.
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One thing is for sure, the FBI is a dangerous organization that sees itself as above the law and immune
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to consequences, and its top officials have every reason to feel that way.
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No conservative politician has been willing to take meaningful action against these malicious
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All we hear from Donald Trump is how he's going to build them a beautiful building in the middle
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If Donald Trump manages to return to the White House, he'd better plan on dismantling the
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FBI brick by brick, because if he doesn't, the Bureau will bury him alive.
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