Fresh from peddling conspiracy theories about Vice President Kamala Harris using artificial intelligence to create fake photos of large crowds at her rallies, former President Donald Trump has now come up with a new gambit: suing the United States Department of Justice.Fox News reports that Trump is...
  • Tujio@lemmy.world
    782·
    4 months ago

    Hillary Clinton had classified emails in a private, password-protected server. Conservatives have spent over a decade frothing at the mouth, calling for her head. The DOJ announced that they would investigate her two weeks before the 2016 election, possibly dooming her campaign.

    Donald Trump had classified documents in a box in the shitter at his private residence while a Russian envoy was there, and conservatives think that’s all cool.

    • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
      51·
      4 months ago

      It’s easy to understand once you accept a couple of premises about a large part of the republican base:

      1. They’re fundamentally uneducated and unintelligent.
      2. They’re essentially brainwashed by their media consumption
      3. They approach politics like football: “This is my team, and I love my team. My team is good because it’s my team. The other team is bad because it’s not my team.”
      • barsquid@lemmy.world
        4·
        4 months ago

        I think there’s a more fundamental thing with your item 3. They are fascists. The one thing they value most is white supremacist hierarchy. They do not give a single fuck about truth or integrity if those conflict with supporting the hierarchy.

    • Mirshe@lemmy.world
      5·
      4 months ago

      You forgot “multiple other envoys and staff there said he would show random visitors said classified documents”.