Lies, more lies and damned lies…
Now that the Russian collusion delusion has died, MSNBC needs to find something else to attack President Trump over thanks to the big hole on their coverage that was left when the Meuller report landed like a bunker buster and took out the conspiracy that was ratings gold.
Having to now resort to throwing everything at the wall to see if anything sticks, the propaganda arm of the DNC was quick to jump on the ouster of DHS boss Kirstjen Nielsen as well as head of the Secret Service Randolph “Tex” Alles.
While both were sent packing with cause – in Nielsen’s case, the handling of the border crisis and Alles’ after a Chinese spy bearing malware was able to breach Mar-a-Lago – leave it to the paid liars and propagandists at MSNBC to manufacture an ominous storyline that they could milk to portray the president negatively.
For example, with absolutely no evidence, “national security” contributor Frank Figliuzzi suggested that the POTUS is on the verge of carrying out a “workplace violence” incident.
Seriously!
Via The Washington Free Beacon, “MSNBC Contributor: Trump Could Be Heading Toward ‘Workplace Violence’ Incident”:
MSNBC national security contributor Frank Figliuzzi theorized Monday that President Donald Trump dismissing White House officials could be evidence of a culture of “workplace violence.”
Deadline: White House host Nicolle Wallace gave credence to Figliuzzi’s theory about Trump’s behavior, and Figliuzzi was happy to expound upon his theory. He said all the signs of a “flashpoint” are evident in Trump’s behavior amid the ouster of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and other officials.
Figliuzzi posited a “possible analogy between what we’re seeing in the president and studies of violence and acting out, particularly workplace violence.” Trump’s negative attitude showed signs of a “pathway to violence,” he asserted.
“When people say to him, ‘The law or policy is such and such and we would be violating the Constitution or the law,’ and he simply dismisses it and fires people and keeps doing it, are we essentially watching a workplace violence incident play out at the highest level of our government?” he asked.
Figliuzzi wasn’t totally sure whether he was right or what the consequences would be.
“Is he acting out now and where does this go if I’m right about that?” he asked.
Figliuzzi marshalled as evidence Trump’s managerial behavior and “attachment” to the issue of immigration.
“When we see people using language of despondency, lashing out, blaming others, obsessive compulsive attachment to one issue and the inability to get off it—in that case it would be the border, security on the border and immigration—the question we have to ask ourselves from a behavioral sense is: Are we watching a president essentially on his way to what we call a flash point, and are we now beginning to see him act out in the form of purging and mass firing and completely not listening to any logic?” he asked.
In a nutshell, Mr. Figliuzzi is totally full of crap because there is nothing that Trump has done that would support this nutty conspiracy theory.
What MSNBC doesn’t bother telling viewers is that Figliuzzi was formerly the Assistant Director for Counterintelligence under Robert Mueller and that host Nicolle Wallace used to be the White House Communications Director during the George W. Bush presidency and a senior adviser for John McCain’s doomed 2008 presidential run.
So they are hardly uninterested, unbiased and objective sources but hey, this is the same network that employs Obama’s disgraced (and possibly treasonous) ex-CIA Director John Brennan among its cadre of intelligence community mouthpieces.
