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Now Trump is being likened to Osama bin Laden and 1/6 to 9/11

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And not by some random tweeter, either. The characterization is by Tim Heaphy, who was the chief investigative counsel for the January 6 committee in the House:

In respect, with respect to 9/11, the commission found that there were failures of U.S. intelligence that perhaps should have been more acutely aware of the threat posed by Al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. But that did not absolve Osama bin Laden and his conspirators from flying planes into the World Trade Center.

Very similarly, here we found that, sure, there were failings of law enforcement to share information, to operationalize the intelligence they had about the prospect of violence.

None of that absolves the proximate cause of the attack on the Capitol, which was President Trump and his co-conspirators.

Fabulous analogy. Can’t think of a better one. The idea is that intelligence was ignored, but the subtle suggestion is that the events were both very violent and that Trump and bin Laden were both masterminds orchestrating the violence.

While we’re at it – although this is entirely unrelated – the WaPo is now helping to spread a blood libel against the Jews, in the guise of a quote from “Palestinian officials”:

Palestinian officials said Tuesday that Israel had returned the bodies of 80 people it had held during the Gaza war via the Kerem Shalom border crossing. The Hamas-run government media office said Israel had not identified the bodies or said where they had been taken from. They had been “mutilated,” the media office said in a statement, and there were “clear” indications that organs had been “stolen” from the corpses.

The claims could not be independently verified.

Hey WaPo, whatever happened to your favorite adjective for just about any claim by the right, “debunked”? Instead, they use the old “couldn’t be independently verified,” which is very weak sauce. At least they mention that the media office is “Hamas-run.” But why report this at all? During World War II, did they quote Goebbels’ claims on a daily basis, with only the “could not be independently verified” disclaimer?

As Stacey Matthews points out in her LI post, you can’t harvest useful organs from people who are already dead in a battle somewhere.

[NOTE: The “Israelis harvest Palestinian organs” claim is an old one that’s gotten a great deal of mileage in the past. Here’s the history; it’s based on a kernel of truth about the failures to get some families’ informed consent for the tissue harvesting of hospital patients – most definitely including Israelis, although some Palestinians were also involved – that ended in the 1990s when far more stringent rules were implemented.]

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Now Trump is being likened to Osama bin Laden and 1/6 to 9/11 — 22 Comments

  1. As always with Democratic insiders, you cannot figure out if that’s the bubble world at work or if these people are just sociopaths.

  3. “Co-conspirators”?

    Doesn’t there have to be some kind of plan and co-ordination for there to be a conspiracy?

  4. Heaphy is a POS. A POS because he knows he is guilty of libeling Trump and the Jan 6th protestors. So for that matter is the entire staff at the WAPO. And since CaCa rolls downhill, Bezos is fully complicit in that libel. Were he not, he would have cleaned house as soon as he took ownership.

    The civilized cannot countenance the involuntary harvesting of organs. The barbaric view it as an opportunity to inflict cruelty upon their victims.

  5. Ironically, this is happening at the same time that many young people in the West are lionizing bin Ladin

  6. I call it the khashoggi times, for ubls publicist and the fellow who bezos whole chimp circus went all shiva for (mixed metaphors)

  11. No surprise a bastion of fascism like the Washington Post would find a modern version of the blood libel to push. Propaganda dies in Darkness.

  15. It will certainly be interesting to see how Supreme Court shapes up when Colorado and Maine’s decisions make it there.
    What then? Repeal the 14th amendment or more direct forms of protest? I am no fan of Trump but can’t see this as the way to choose a President.

    I suppose it depends how much you trust the Supreme Court…… and the Constitution

  16. I’ve lost track. Are the heroes the Hitler lovers or haters? Seriously what page are we on?

  17. Good people this is what we call eliminationist rhetoric. Dehumanization. Of the 10 steps of Genocide, we are somewhere between 4 and 6. And that’s the problem. It does not matter if you love Trump or hate him, and this is why the infighting on the right (including both by anti-Trumpere and Trump purists) enrages me.

    We are very much at Hang Together or Hang Separately.

  18. “ Trump or hate him, and this is why the infighting on the right (including both by anti-Trumpere and Trump purists) enrages me.”
    The trouble is Trump is not a Conservative, but he is immoral, self obsessed and unfit to be President. All the courtroom shenanigans allow him to, once again, play the victim.
    Chris Christie is right about Trump he will burn America down.

  20. Thats mirror imaging on erdogans part they are qatars partner, turkeys um neutrality was less than advertised and even less after the war when they were the ratline to syria

  21. It’s one thing to lie to a person whom you are sure does not know better.
    It’s another, seems to me, to lie to one who, you can be certain, knows you’re lying. I don’t see how the math is supposed to work out.

  22. “During World War II, did they quote Goebbels’ claims on a daily basis, with only the “could not be independently verified” disclaimer?”

    No. But I believe they would today.

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