Morning Brief 2022-07-21

TOP OF HOUR 3

GUEST: Becky Hope
TOPIC: Why is the DOJ involved in this Utah school district?

BOTTOM OF HOUR 3
GUEST: David & Terry
TOPIC: Glenn surprises the first Badge of Merit winner live on air!

CB, RR, JB, SK, BM, NN

Domestic News...

"Critical Stage": Feds Consider Charging Hunter Biden With Multiple Crimes, Including Gun-Related Crime
CNN reported that investigators appear to have narrowed their focus to potential tax crimes and “gun-related” crimes.

Video: Rapper slaps Biden family with viral dis track
This went viral last week, but is a good companion to the latest Hunter news.

New York Times Inadvertently Makes The Case For More Concealed Carry
The evidence shows that an armed citizen is more likely to stop a mass shooting than any of the policies being advocated by Democrats.

Horowitz: BLM activist who burned cop car gets lenient sentence to protect him from deportation
Setting a police car on fire during a riot is a pretty serious crime, don’t you think? Some might even call it an insurrection. Yet, in the case of BLM arsonist Ayoub Tabri, he was sentenced to just one year in prison. How much do you think a January 6er would have served for such a crime?

Man convicted of murdering retired police captain during St. Louis BLM riot
A jury found Stephan Cannon guilty of killing David Dorn on June 2, 2020. Cannon was convicted of first-degree murder, meaning the jury concluded he had premeditated the killing. He was also found guilty of robbery, burglary and armed criminal action.

Portland camp imagines life without cops, features BLM coloring book
A far-left volunteer group in Portland, Oregon, is offering “a free, radical social justice camp” that has promoted Black Lives Matter-themed material, taught indigenous land maps and called for the abolishment of police in past summers.

Boise City Council Bars Enforcement Of Idaho’s Statewide Abortion Ban
The city council in Boise, Idaho approved a resolution by a 3-2 vote Tuesday to make the state capital a “sanctuary city” for the abortion industry.

Vasectomy demand is surging post-Roe decision, clinics report
“I'm normally scheduled out for two to four weeks," Dr. Charles Monteith said. "Now, I’m scheduled out for three months.”

An inside look at Ivana Trump's elegant Manhattan funeral service
Ivana Trump’s funeral was a glamorous final tribute to the 1980s style icon — complete with extravagant rose arrangements and a blown up copy of her Vanity Fair magazine cover.

GoFundMe for Indiana pizza man who saved 5 from burning home raises nearly $500K
His cousin created a GoFundMe page to help raise funds for the heroic pizza delivery driver’s recovery after he suffered cuts and burns during the rescue. His injuries required treatment for several days at a hospital.

SHOCK REPORT: Legalizing Drugs Leads To Increased Drug Use
Cannabis use has surged across the United States, disproportionately in states that legalized the substance.

Taco Bell manager dumped ‘boiling’ water on customers who complained: suit
The lawsuit seeks damages in excess of $1 million after the two saw their lives “forever changed” during a stop at a Taco Bell in Dallas.

Worker steals $22K in $1 bills from Rhode Island strip club
A Providence strip club was robbed of $22,000 – all in $1 bills by a worker of the joint who disguised his skin tone during the gunpoint heist.

Politics...

Biden says he has cancer in latest gaffe
Biden said Wednesday that he has cancer, forcing the White House press office to quickly clarify that he was referring to skin cancer treatment that he had before taking office last year. The remark initially appeared to be a stunningly casual health announcement during a speech about global warming.

Dems Candidates Are Crushing GOP Opponents When It Comes To Fundraising
The GOP has historically earned more than Democrats when it comes to “small-dollar donors” — those pledging less than $200 — but are down by over $75 million in the current election cycle in donations from this key demographic, Axios reported.

Democrat: The Word ‘Abortion’ Is Used by Pro-Lifers to ‘Raise Emotions,’ so ‘Stop’ Using It
“All I hear is a bunch of conversations where the word ‘abortion, abortion, abortion’ is meant as a negative term,” Congresswoman Kathleen Rice complained.

AOC defends fake handcuff stunt at protest after criticism, mockery
“No faking here. Putting your hands behind your back is a best practice while detained, handcuffed or not, to avoid escalating charges like resisting arrest,” AOC said.

AOC and Ilhan Omar coordinated Supreme Court arrest stunt with Soros-funded dark money group
Getting arrested was the whole point of the stunt, AOC said in an Instagram post. She said organizers of the Center for Popular Democracy Action Fund asked her and her colleagues to "submit themselves for arrest in front of the Supreme Court."

House Democrats don't have the votes for an assault weapons ban
More than six House Democrats remain uncommitted to such a ban, delaying or nixing its passage.

Court Orders DOJ To Cough Up Biden’s Election-Takeover Documents Before Midterms
A federal district court ruled last week that the Biden Department of Justice must hand over documents related to Biden’s executive order federalizing elections before the 2022 midterms and not after.

Polling...

Poll: Biden’s Approval Rating Just Hit Another Record Low
An NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll out Wednesday noted a record low approval rating for President Joe Biden at just 36 percent approval.

Poll: Only 19 Percent of Hispanics Approve of Joe Biden’s Job Performance
Just 22 percent of Hispanics want Biden to run for president again in 2024.

New voter registration data show GOP surpassing Democrats in key states
Republicans now lead in registered voters in 12 states, compared to 10 states and Washington, D.C., where Democrats have the plurality.

Democrat Poll: Trump Viewed Far More Favorably than Biden
50% of battleground respondents approve of Trump, while Biden’s approval rating among the same constituents is marked at only 37%.

Economy...

Mortgage demand drops to a 22-year low
Buyers have been contending with high prices all year, but with rates almost double what they were in January, they’ve lost considerable purchasing power.

"It’s A Scam": House Republicans Prepare Next Salvo In War On Woke Capital
Members of the Republican Study Committee detailed steps to combat ESG investing, which critics refer to as “woke capital,” during a Monday round-table discussion.

CNBC grills Buttigieg about White House’s gas price ‘victory lap’
“If prices go back up, do you then have to take blame for the higher prices you take a victory lap now,” CNBC anchor Becky Quick asked.

Ford Plans To Cut 8,000 Jobs So It Can Fund EV Push: Report
The cuts, though still pending, are expected to be implemented in the coming weeks.

Border...

Illegals sent to NYC amid homeless shelter crisis have no local ties, were directed here by Biden admin
On Tuesday, Adams said more than 2,800 asylum-seeking migrants entered the city’s shelter system in recent weeks and he called on Biden to send “additional resources immediately.”

Republicans investigate Biden's firing of Trump-appointed immigration judges
“At least some of these terminations appear to have been the result of a coordinated effort between the Biden-Harris Administration and far-left immigration advocates,” Grassley and Jordan wrote in the letter.

Border Patrol pushes back on Mayorkas claim that southern border is secure: ‘They are liars’
Border Patrol have encountered more than 200,000 migrants a month for four months

WAR News... 

CIA Director estimates 15,000 Russians killed in Ukraine war
“I think the latest estimates from the U.S. intelligence community would be, you know, something in the vicinity of 15,000 killed and maybe three times that wounded, so a quite significant set of losses.”

"More Pronouns, Less Recruits": U.S. Military Facing "Unprecedented" Recruiting Crisis Under Biden
The Associated Press reported that U.S. Army officials said this week that they will be 10,000 recruits short this year, and next year is projected to be even worse.

Western fighter jets heading to Ukraine?
Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. C.Q. BROWN hinted that the U.S. or one one of its allies may soon send fighter jets to Ukraine.

Russia: Nuclear power plant attacked by Ukrainian kamikaze drones
The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, which is under the control of Russian forces, came under attack Wednesday from several Ukrainian kamikaze drones, according to Russian officials.

Russia Sends Pacific Island ‘Machine Gun Artillery Division’ To Ukraine
Russia may have stripped away a substantial portion of its Pacific island garrisons 4,700 miles to the west to serve as assault troops in Ukraine—a role those soldiers weren’t equipped to perform.

COVID-19...

COVID booster effectiveness wanes after 3 months, study shows
Data in a new clinical trial was consistent with real-world reports showing waning protection against COVID-19 infection during the Omicron wave in people who received vaccines and a booster.

AP: Swedish study on COVID vaccines and DNA misinterpreted
Social media users are citing a study from Sweden that was published in February to push the unproven theory that mRNA COVID-19 vaccines permanently alter recipients’ DNA.

Kathy Hochul’s New York Sent $600 Million in No-Bid COVID Contracts to Dem Megadonor’s Company
Hochul's Department of Health paid $637 million in taxpayer funds to Digital Gadgets LLC for at-home COVID tests, the company is led by Charlie Tebele, whose family has contributed nearly $300,000 to Hochul's campaign.

Commie Update...

CIA Director: Putin's war on Ukraine forcing China Taiwan invasion rethink
"It probably affects less the question of whether the Chinese leadership might choose some years down the road to use force to control Taiwan, but how and when they would do it," Burns said.

House Democrats Block Motion to Prohibit Biden from Selling U.S. Oil to China
The proposed motion would have prevented U.S. oil from being sold to entities “under the ownership, control, or influence of the Chinese Communist Party” or entities that would get the oil and then turn around and export it to China.

Entertainment...

Dave Chappelle show canceled by ‘woke’ theater, changes venue at last minute
The theater wrote, “To staff, artists and our community, we hear you and we are sorry. We know we must hold ourselves to the highest standards, and we know we let you down."

Media...

Politico urges readers 'don't believe' polls showing sinking levels of trust in the media
A Gallup poll in July showed only 16% of Americans have confidence in newspapers

CNN’s Toobin: Trump ‘Is Like a Tinfoil Hat Crazy Person’
"...it just shows that the former president is obsessed with this issue and is not letting it go."

Europe...

EU plans to force countries to ration gas
The EU Commission is hoping to pass a new law that would give it the power to force states to reduce their demand for gas "when there is a substantial risk of a severe gas shortage or an exceptionally high gas demand," it said in a press release.

Nord Stream 1 resumes gas flows from Russia to Europe after fears of complete cutoff
There had been concerns across the region that there could be a complete shutdown of gas supplies via the pipeline after it was closed earlier this month for maintenance.

Middle East...

NATO ally Erdogan accuses United States of training terrorists to attack Turkey
U.S. forces must withdraw from Syria, according to Erdogan, who presented a united front with Russia and Iran while accusing the US of training Kurdish forces “to commit a terrorist act” against his country.

Environment...

Biden Issues Climate Ultimatum As China Races To Build New Coal Plants
China is embracing fossil fuels to reach its growing energy demands, approving plans to add a total of 8.63 gigawatts of coal power plants in the first quarter of 2022 alone, nearly 50% of the capacity approved in the whole of 2021.

Climate Adviser: Biden 'will move fast' on climate 'emergency'
“The president is going to make it clear that climate change is an emergency. He’s going to make it clear that just because Congress couldn’t get it done, he is going to move forward with every power available to him to make the change and the shift to clean energy because it’s important.”

What happens if Biden declares a climate emergency?
Advocates want Biden to use national emergency and defense laws to funnel federal investments toward renewable energy, halt new fossil fuel leases and prod manufacturers to increase supplies of renewable energy technologies.

Biden unveils subsidies for air conditioning
Biden, and his massive entourage, needlessly traveled to Massachusetts Wednesday to announce more than $2 billion in environmental spending including subsidies for air conditioning units.

New Zealand PM blasted for gifting Biden kauri bowl during DC visit
Jacinda Ardern gave the president a swamp kauri bowl made from glazed timber harvested from trees that had been submerged for 60,000 years in peat swamps, which has triggered environmentalists who demand the White House return the bowl.

LGBTQIA2S+...

Drag queens, incest, pedophilia dominate taxpayer-funded film festival
The grant was part of the Biden administration's push to promote LGBTQI+ acceptance worldwide

Education...

Less Than Half of San Francisco Students Are High-School Ready
San Francisco Public Schools released data last month painting a bleak picture of academic achievement in the famously liberal city.

Technology...

Criminal organizations step up assassinations by using drones
Many criminals who are at risk of being targets of hits have moved to the highest floors of various luxury towers in order to prevent harm to them; in response, hitmen have evolved their methods.

Science....

Advanced NASA Telescope Could Discover Alien Life
Earth is, as of now, the only known home of life in the universe.

Sports...

ESPY Award: US-born athlete who represented China in Olympics wins Best Breakthrough Athlete
Eileen Gu represented China in the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing rather than her native United States. She won two gold medals for China.

Kirby Smart: 95 Georgia players have received NIL money
“We arguably, I don’t know for a fact, had the highest-paid defensive lineman, the highest-paid tight end and probably the highest-paid corner in the NIL market.”

Animals...

Birmingham Zoo Lion Kills Lioness Just Minutes After Being Introduced
A male African lion at a zoo in Alabama mauled a female to death just moments after the two were introduced to each other.

Warning over murder hornets as bugs come out of hibernation and officials use drones to track them
Washington State's managing entomologist explained that if they don't get on top of this issue now, there will be more reproduction from the invasive species. That's why they've had to get innovative, catching hornets and attaching digital trackers in the hopes of finding more and more nests.

Movie Review: The Swarm (1978)
African killer bees take control Houston and even blow up a nuclear power plant in this big budget (it cost more to make than Star Wars) classic.

July 21, 2009 - What system are we? Does America want to be socialists?... Is Climate Change the same as the Civil Rights movement?... Whoopi says the moon landing was fake...

July 21, 2017 - The 'real killer' on notice as OJ gets a release date... Fox News ad rates are plummeting... The GOP seems to be tanking Trump's agenda...

The THREE ways RFK Jr. will Make America Healthy Again

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One of President Trump's most popular campaign promises was to "Make America Great Again," and he has employed the help of his former opponent, RFK Jr., to make that promise come true.

In an interview with NPR, RFK Jr. revealed the three directives Trump has tasked him as the new head of the Department of Health and Human Services. These directives aim to cut out the "cancer" that Glenn exposed in his latest TV special that has spread throughout theentire federal government.

Here are the three directives Trump gave RFK Jr.:

1. Rid health agencies of corruption and conflicts.

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It is no secret that the departments that fall under the HHS, such as the FDA, NIH, and CDC, are rife with corruption. After the COVID lockdowns raised suspicion that these federal agencies did not have the American people's best interests at heart, Americans have been increasingly distrustful of these institutions. Glenn exposed several instances of corruption across the HHS, from Dr. Fauchi's Covid powertrip to the insidious relationship between private entities like Big Food, Big Pharma, and the federal agencies that regulate them.

RFK Jr. has been one of the most vocal critics of the corruption that has turned these federal agencies against the very people they were created to protect and is the best person to reform these institutions.

2. Return agencies to the gold standard of empirically based, evidence-based science and medicine.

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Under Biden, the HHS has degraded even further than it had before. Scientific methodology and empirical data are no longer the backbones of these institutions. They have been replaced with DEI and other woke agendas. The Department of Health and Human Services is the second largest federal agency, only behind the Pentagon, with a budget of 1.7 trillion dollarsand over 83 thousand employees. The opportunity for waste and negligence is monumental.

Biden appointed former California Attorney General, Xavier Becerra, to the head of HHS, along with Rachel Levine, a transgender woman, as the Assistant Secretary for Health. Before long the second-largest federal agency started looking like a university DEI office, with hundreds of DEI hires adding to government bloat. Instead of battling the diseases and sicknesses that plague our country, the HHS spent the past four years going after pro-life investigators who were exposing how Planned Parenthood sells body parts of aborted babies, opposing the merger of religious-based hospitals to protect transgender and abortion "rights," and wrestling over Obama-era contraceptive mandates with a group of Catholic nuns. This is quackery and waste on an unprecedented scale.

RFK Jr. is tasked with rooting out the corruption that sprang forth with the Biden administration's DEI agenda and put science back in our health policy.

3. End the chronic disease epidemic with measurable impacts within two years.

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Today, despite our modern technology, Americans are sicker than ever before. 129 million Americans have at least one chronic disease, 42 percent have two or more, and 12 percent have more than five. Life expectancy is at a twenty-year low despite the fact that we are spending more than ever on health care. Even our children are sick, with a staggering 40 percent of school-aged kids having at least one chronic disease. One in nine kids has ADHD, and one in 54 has autism, both representing a steep increase over past decades.

America is sick, and Big Pharma is just rolling in the profits. This is where RFK Jr. comes in. He aims to find the cures and preventions to these diseases and make Americans healthy instead of lifelong patients.

POLL: Is Matt Gaetz in trouble?!

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Trump is assembling a dream team to take on the deep state that has burdened the American people for far too long.

It's no surprise Democrats have been pushing back against Trump's nominations, but one person in particular has been experiencing the most resistance: Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, Trump's pick to serve as his Attorney General. The controversy centers around a years-long House ethics probe regarding sexual misconduct allegations made against Gaetz several years ago. Despite the FBI conducting its own investigation and refusing to prosecute Gaetz, his nomination re-ignited interest in these allegations.

Democrats and some Republicans demand the House Ethics Committee release their probe into Gaetz before his Senate confirmation hearing. Conveniently, earlier this week, an anonymous hacker obtained this coveted report and gave it to the New York Times, which has yet to make the information public.

Glenn is very skeptical about the entire affair, from the allegations against Gaetz to the hacker's "anonymity." Is it another case of lawfare by the Democrats?

Glenn wants to know what do you think. Did Gaetz commit the crimes he's accused of? Will he still be appointed attorney general? Let us know in the poll below:

Is Matt Gaetz guilty of the crimes he is accused of committing? 

Will Matt Gaetz still be appointed to Trump's cabinet?

Was the "hacker" really some Democratic staffer or lawmaker? 

3 BIGGEST lies about Trump's plans for deportations

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To the right, Trump's deportation plans seem like a reasonable step to secure the border. For the left, mass deportation represents an existential threat to democracy.

However, the left's main arguments against Trump's deportation plans are not only based on racially problematic lies and fabrications they are outright hypocritical.

Here are the three BIGGEST lies about Trump's deportation plans:

1. Past Deportations

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The left acts like Donald Trump is the first president in history to oversee mass deportations, but nothing could be further from the truth. Deportations have been a crucial tool for enforcing immigration laws and securing the country from the beginning, and until recently, it was a fairly bipartisan issue.

Democrat superstar President Obama holds the record for most deportations during his tenure in office, clocking in at a whopping 3,066,457 people over his eight years in office. This compares to the 551,449 people removed during Trump's first term. Obama isn't an anomaly either, President Clinton deported 865,646 people during his eight years, still toping Trump's numbers by a considerable margin.

The left's sudden aversion to deportations is clearly reactionary propaganda aimed at villainizing Trump.

2. Exploitative Labor

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Commentators on the left have insinuated that President Trump's deportation plan would endanger the agricultural industry due to the large portion of agricultural workers in the U.S. who are illegal aliens. If they are deported, food prices will skyrocket.

What the left is conveniently forgetting is the reason why many businesses choose to hire illegal immigrants (here's a hint: it's not because legal Americans aren't willing to do the work). It's because it is way easier to exploit people who are here illegally. Farmowners don't have to pay taxes on illegal aliens, pay minimum wage, offer benefits, sign contracts, or do any of the other typical requirements that protect the rights of the worker.

The left has shown their hand. This was never about some high-minded ideals of "diversity" and "inclusion." It's about cheap, expendable labor and a captive voter base to bolster their party in elections.

3."Undesirable" Jobs

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Another common talking point amid the left-wing anti-Trump hysteria is that illegal aliens take "undesirable" jobs that Americans will not do. The argument is that these people fill the "bottom tier" in the U.S. economy, jobs they consider "unfit" for American citizens.

By their logic, we should allow hordes of undocumented, unvetted immigrants into the country so they can work the jobs that the out-of-touch liberal talking heads consider beneath them. It's no wonder why they lost the election.

Did the Left lay the foundations for election denial?

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Did Glenn predict the future?

Just a few days after the election and President Trump's historic victory, the New York Times published a noteworthy article titled "How Russia Openly Escalated Its Election Interference Efforts," in which they made some interesting suggestions. They brought up several examples of Russian election interference (stop me if you think you've heard this one before) that favored Trump. From there, they delicately approached the "election denial zone" with the following statement:

"What impact Russia’s information campaign had on the outcome of this year’s race, if any, remains uncertain"

Is anyone else getting 2016 flashbacks?

It doesn't end there. About two weeks before the election (October 23rd), Glenn and Justin Haskins, the co-author of Glenn's new book, Propaganda Wars, discuss a frightening pattern they were observing in the news cycle at the time, and it bears a striking similarity to this New York Times piece. To gain a full appreciation of this situation, let's go back to two weeks before the election when Glenn and Justin laid out this scene:

Bad Eggs in the Intelligence Community

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This story begins with a top-secret military intelligence leak. Over the October 19th weekend, someone within the U.S. Government's intelligence agencies leaked classified information regarding the Israeli military and their upcoming plans to Iran. The man responsible for this leak, Asif William Rahman, a CIA official with top security clearance, was arrested on Tuesday, November 12th.

Rahman is one of the known "bad eggs" within our intelligence community. Glenn and Justin highlighted another, a man named Robert Malley. Malley is an Iranian envoy who works at the State Department under the Biden/Harris administration and is under investigation by the FBI for mishandling classified information. While Malley was quietly placed on leave in June, he has yet to be fired and still holds security clearance.

Another suspicious figure is Ariane Tabatabai, a former aide of Mr. Malley and a confirmed Iranian agent. According to a leak by Semafor, Tabatabai was revealed to be a willing participant in an Iranian covert influence campaign run by Tehran's Foreign Ministry. Despite this shocking revelation that an Iranian agent was in the Pentagon with access to top-secret information, Tabatabai has not faced any charges or inquires, nor has she been stripped of her job or clearance.

If these are the bad actors we know about, imagine how many are unknown to the public or are flying under the radar. In short, our intelligence agencies are full of people whose goals do not align with American security.

Conspicuous Russian Misinformation

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The story continues with a video of a man accusing former VP candidate and Minnesota Governor, Tim Walz of sexual assault. The man alleged to be Matthew Metro, a former student of Walz claimed that he was assaulted by the Governor while in High School. The man in the video gave corroborating details that made the claim seem credible on the surface, and it quickly spread across the internet. But after some deeper investigation, it was revealed this man wasnot Matthew Metro and that the entire video was fake. This caught the attention of the Security Director of National Intelligence who claimed the video was a Russian hoax designed to wound the Harris/Walz campaign, and the rest of the intelligence community quickly agreed.

In the same vein, the State Department put out a $10 million bountyto find the identity of the head of the Russian-owned media company Rybar. According to the State Department, Rybar manages several social media channels that promote Russian governmental political interests targeted at Trump supporters. The content Rybar posts is directed into pro-Trump, and pro-Republican channels, and the content apparently has a pro-Trump spin, alongside its pro-Russia objectives.

Why Does the Intelligence Community Care?

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So what's the deal? Yes, Russia was trying to interfere with the election, but this is a well-known issue that has unfortunately become commonplace in our recent elections.

The real concern is the intelligence community's uncharacteristically enthusiastic and fast response. Where was this response in 2016, when Hillary Clinton and the Democrats spent months lying about Donald Trump's "collusion" with Russia? It has since been proven that the FIB knew the entire story was a Clinton campaign fabrication, and they not only kept quiet about it, but they even played along. Or what about in 2020 when the Left tried to shut down the Hunter Biden laptop story for months by calling it a Russian hoax, only for it to turn out to be true?

Between all the bad actors in the intelligence community and their demonstrated repeated trustworthiness, this sudden concern with "Russian disinformation" that happened to support Trump was just too convenient.

Laying the Foundations for Election Denial

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This is when Glenn and Justin make a startling prediction: the Left was preparing for a potential Trump victory (remember, this was two weeks before the election) so they would have something to delegitimize him with. They were painting Trump as Putin's lapdog who was receiving election assistance in the form of misinformation from the Kremlin by sounding the alarm on these cherry-picked (and in the grand scheme of things, tame) examples of Russian propaganda. They were laying the foundation of the Left's effort to resist and delegitimize a President-elect Trump.

Glenn and Justin had no idea how right they were.