When asked by Charlie Kirk, a talk-show host, why the FBI would do this, Gingrich said, “We’d be better off to think of these people as wolves”-wolves who “want to eat you, wolves who want to dominate.” According to Gingrich, the FBI has “declared war on the American people at such a level and with such total dishonesty.” We are seeing “the ugly face of a tyranny.” We now need to carry the fight against organized crime to its logical conclusion: Shut down the FBI and prosecute this gang of dangerous criminals.”įormer Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich suggested that the FBI might have planted evidence against Trump. Juliette Kayyem: The bad and good news about Trump’s violent supportersĭinesh D’Souza, a right-wing provocateur who received a pardon from Trump for campaign-finance violations, said, “The FBI, an organization set up to fight organized crime, has become the most powerful organized crime syndicate in the world. The FBI is the KGB.” And Fox’s Dan Bongino called the FBI’s action “some third-world bullshit.” Bannon called the FBI “the Gestapo” and said, “We need to choke down the FBI and choke down the Justice Department.” Another former Trump adviser, Michael Caputo, said, “With this militant raid on President Trump’s home, we have become Russia. Trump’s onetime political adviser,” according to The New York Times.
War”-which was “quickly amplified by a Telegram account connected to Stephen K. The Gateway Pundit, a pro-Trump outlet, wrote “This. Maybe even moreso.”Ĭommentators in right-wing media, meanwhile, have been using extraordinarily reckless and inflammatory language. When this is all said and done, the people responsible for these tyrannical actions need to be hanged.”īen Collins, who covers disinformation, extremism, and the internet for NBC News, wrote on Monday evening, “The posts on these pro-Trump forums tonight are as violent as I’ve seen them since before January 6th. We’re seeing references to “lock and load” and statements like this: “It certainly feels like they’re treating it as a hot civil war. One user on Trump’s social-media platform, Truth Social, said, “Fuck a civil war, give them a REVOLUTION. MAGA-world denizens have called for violence and civil war, so much so that the phrase civil war was trending on Twitter Monday night. Unfortunately, the reaction online, in the right-wing media, and even among lawmakers has been far from sane. We’re skeptical about the Department of Justice’s actions, but we’ll wait to see the evidence before we make any sweeping claims or definitive judgments.
I n a sane world, a partisan Republican reaction to the FBI’s search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida home on Monday would be something like this: We don’t believe Trump did anything wrong.
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