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Today, President Trump authorized his administration to leak to Fox News claims of having intel that shows the World Health Organization was complicit in assisting China in covering up how Covid-19 was developed in a Chinese lab and accidentally released.

What. The. Fuck.
The general reaction seems to be "well that is weird, let's see what happens." But holy shit this is horrifying. Even if the Intel were real, THIS is how the U.S. government is releasing the news? Anonymous-but-authorized leaks to Fox News?

Oh but it gets worse.
The White House's new claim? Trump's sycophantic tweets throughout January praising President Xi were all just an elaborate ruse! Trump was conducting a cover operation to trick China into thinking all was cool, in order to allow the investigation into the Wuhan lab to continue.
If the "intel" about the Wuhan lab intern who accidentally caught the virus and spread it to her boyfriend is real, it's unfathomable why Trump is choosing to make the information public this way.

And he did choose this. His comments today to @johnrobertsFox made that clear.
The nature of the information backing these claims remains unknown, since the White House contacts who leaked the story to Fox wouldn't share any of it with Fox. All they would say is that it came from "open-source" and "classified" documents.
If covid really did come from a Wuhan lab, this is the worst possible way to tell the world. It's too bizarre to be believed, and too obviously politically motivated.

And if this intel is manufactured, it's a sign of what lengths the unshackled Trump admin is now able to go to.
If this news were real, it'd be the breaking story everywhere, overwhelming everything else.

Instead it's being promoted by Charlie Kirk, Tom Cotton, and some Daily Caller people. Hell, even Ted Cruz isn't weighing in on it yet.

If this news is real, what a disaster by the WH.
But hell, even Fox News doesn't believe this bullshit. Right now they're focusing on all the eminent arrests that are going to be coming out of Barr's investigation into the Russia investigation.
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In 2016, the FBI took an unprecedented action against Hillary Clinton which likely could have been a but-for cause of Trump's election victory.

And nearly four years later, Republicans are still busy promoting conspiracy theories about how the FBI *was conspiring against Trump.*
Republicans got everything they could have dreamed of from the FBI in 2016: just days before the election, an investigation was opened and made public that caused measurable harm to Clinton's campaign.

Yet Republicans are obsessed with the ideas that they were the real victims.
Now it's 2020, and Trump has already long since directed the DOJ to launch investigations into his 2020 opponent. So now we're just waiting to see when Trump will start arresting members of the prior administration on charges arising out of their derpy conspiracy theories.
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Trump's Attorney General is conducting an ongoing investigation into Biden for conspiring with Ukraine to frame Russia for 2016 election interference—and just dismissed the Flynn case on grounds that the DOJ was wrong to investigate Flynn's ties to Russian election interference.
And everyone is out here now acting like the 2020 election is going to be a fair and normal election that we can prepare for in the normal democratic way, and that it is not absolutely fucking clear that Trump is already using the DOJ to influence the 2020 election in his favor.
We can stop talking now about how to ensure the 2020 election remains free and democratic. Because the current President is already using the DOJ to conduct investigations that will help him in the election, and to stop prosecutions of admitted criminals who helped him in 2016.
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Michael Flynn's company was caught red-handed for violating a number of federal statutes. The kickbacks he sent to Alptekin as part of the scheme are undeniable proof of the fraud Flynn Intel Group was engaged in. And he was paid by Turkey to be a secret agent on their behalf.
Mueller's decision to give Flynn the sweetheart deal of the century, in exchange for nothing of apparent value to the DOJ, was always mystifying. Though perhaps Mueller offered such a favorable deal knowing that it would be hard to compete with Trump's ability to offer a pardon.
It's as if Mueller's investigation operated under the naive belief that the DOJ was the same DOJ he'd worked for, and that it would remain the DOJ after the Special Counsel was done.

But DOJ is Trump's plaything now. And Republicans are either thrilled by it, or just don't care.
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