Brace yourself… there’s a new conspiracy theory that’s rapidly gone “mainstream” among the MSNBC and Democratic lawmakers who have it out for President Donald Trump.
And this blind hatred of Trump is turning once-rational Americans into tinfoil-hat kooks!
It’s not enough that Trump – as predicted – was completely cleared of collusion by special counsel Robert Mueller.
It’s not enough that his ENTIRE CAMPAIGN is exonerated as well.
You’d think even the left would CELEBRATE that.
But they’re not.
“They’re not happy to learn that their president is not a foreign agent, they’re unhappy,” Rush Limbaugh said on Fox News. “We’re dealing with deranged people who are not rational. We can’t deal with them rationally.”
He’s right. Who on Earth wants their democratically elected leader to be a crook or a foreign stooge?
Well… it seems the “deranged people” on the left do. Rather than accept the results of the investigation, MSNBC and Democratic lawmakers have cooked up a wild new conspiracy theory that Mueller’s report secretly found Trump guilty.
And that Attorney General William Barr is somehow lying about what’s inside that report!
This isn’t some loony claim from the remote fringes of the Internet.
It’s already become mainstream thinking (if you can call it “thinking”) from the left, with them actually saying this stuff out loud and even on TV on the anti-Trump network MSNBC.
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., chair of House Intelligence Committee, ticked off all of the talking points already disproven by Mueller’s report in a lengthy rant in Congress — then simply pretended they were true.
“I don’t think it’s OK,” Schiff said. “I think it’s immoral, I think it’s unethical, I think it’s unpatriotic and, yes, I think it’s corrupt, and evidence of collusion.”
Collusion? More like delusion!
Other lawmakers – including presidential candidates such as Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. – have all said they don’t believe the conclusions.
“The attorney general, working hand in glove with the White House, is gaming the system to frame the narrative,” claimed Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., on MSNBC.
But there’s just one itty-bitty little problem with these conspiracy theories.
His name is Robert Mueller.
He’s served honorably in both Democratic and Republican administrations… and his team included a group Trump called “17 angry Democrats” for their long links to the left including political donations.
If ANYONE would be ready to indict Trump, it would be them.
If Barr were truly lying… would Mueller and his “17 angry Democrats” really sit by quietly?
It boggles the mind – yet that’s what these people are suggesting.
The Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald wrote about this in disbelief on Twitter:
How dumb & gullible do you have be to believe this? MSNBC is like an apocalyptic cult that kept promising its flock the world would end on a specific date & now that it hasn’t, they have to invent new theories to keep them hooked. Hence, Mueller found collusion but Barr is lying.
Already, these conspiracy theories are backfiring.
Schiff was even slapped with a rare rebuke by the Republicans on his committee.
Now, of course, the opposing parties on ANY committee rarely gather ’round the campfire to sing “Kumbaya.”
But they usually stop short of outright demanding that they step aside or step down.
Yet that’s what happened in this case, as the committee’s GOP representatives issued a statement saying Schiff’s bizarre rants – counter to the TRUTH inside the Mueller report – have “damaged the integrity of the committee.”
And they essentially delivered a no-confidence vote, saying they had “no faith” in the chairman.
“We should not be used as a platform to spread false information and bizarre conspiracies,” said Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.).
Ironically, Nunes was the victim of a smear campaign claiming HE was spreading conspiracy theories.
Then, the Mueller report comes out and… whoops!… turns out he was right all along.
“At the end of the day, Chairman Nunes has been correct in his assessments,” Rep. Will Hurd (R-Tex.) told McClatchy. “People criticize the Nunes memo, but it made clear the abuses being done.”
Republicans – including the president – have called on Schiff to step down.
He won’t, of course, and even if he did that still won’t be the end of it.
In fact, we might see it happen all over again.
Democrats and Republicans alike back the release of the full report. Given that it runs hundreds of pages, it’ll take some time to redact it to remove personal information, grand jury details and other things that cannot by law be released.
But it’s scheduled to be released in just weeks.
And when it does, the left will have another helping of crow.
Of course, that’ll likely be followed by a NEW conspiracy theory – and you can bet the next one will be even more unhinged.
— Walter W. Murray is a reporter for The Horn News. He is an outspoken conservative and a survival expert, and is the author of “America’s Final Warning.”