Fox contributor floats conspiracy theory that the FBI might have planned to assassinate Donald Trump
Source: Media Matters
JACKSON: Well, I think they're going to say, is it -- what was his intent, right? Because that's exactly what FBI Director, former FBI Director [James] Comey said when he was letting Hillary Clinton off the hook. And his intent, regardless of whether it was an assassination attempt or whatever, it was definitely something --
FAULKNER: Whoa, whoa.
JACKSON: Well, I'm just saying, we don't know what it was. When you say, "we've got to make sure that this guy doesn't get in at all cost," what does that mean? So I'm saying there's a spectrum of what does it mean, but one thing that we know for sure, is that he was plotting in an election against a candidate, and there's FBI fingerprints all over this.
Read more: https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2017/12/19/fox-contributor-floats-conspiracy-theory-fbi-might-have-planned-assassinate-donald-trump/218905
Here's another link to a story about this
http://thehill.com/homenews/media/365639-fox-news-guest-floats-fbi-assassination-plot-against-trump
Fox News, should be ashamed
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)It's exactly the opposite. So, if anything, some on the right are the ones plotting for that.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)I immediately thought, "Victoria."
olddad56
(5,732 posts)Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)It's dangerous. No regard for the damage caused by it. They don't care.
Saviolo
(3,282 posts)Things are wound up about as tight as they can be. The far right's stochastic terrorism is going to get more people killed (nazis have already killed one person on the streets of the USA this year), and Fox is one of the primary major outlets of state-sponsored stochastic terrorism/propaganda.
lkinwi
(1,477 posts)A Morpheus Felinae
(41 posts)OH DEAR LORD, please make all this horse-shit stop! The stupid! It burns!
I'm going to cover all the bases, just in case something, ANYTHING, might stop this madness.
djacq
(1,634 posts)MontanaMama
(23,322 posts)in a crowded theater. One of their mouth breathing rubes is going to come unhinged and kill someone. It is only a matter of time.
Midnight Writer
(21,768 posts)FakeNoose
(32,645 posts)Of course it's a load of crap, but who is he trying to stir up? The right-wing nut cases that watch Faux News, that's who.
This guy would never be able to convince anybody who's actually, you know, sane that Jim Comey was trying to assassinate Trump. We all know for a fact that Comey was doing everything he could to get Trump elected. What a stupid theory and completely dangerous to even suggest it. Doesn't Faux News have any principles at all?
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)while making some random liberal the fall guy
pwb
(11,276 posts)Sometimes things people say come back to haunt them. I would ask this contributor ! What was trumps intent saying that in a speech to the whole country? This was just an e mail to a few people. Same implication if you ask me but trumps was on a much larger scale.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,586 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)and FOX guarding the White House.
Frightening and amazing.
jmowreader
(50,560 posts)If the FBI had planned to assassinate Donald Trump, he'd be dead now. The FBI doesn't fuck around.
Snotcicles
(9,089 posts)Murdoch so they can Denaturalize and Deport him. Hmmm it is textbook sedition.
WhoWoodaKnew
(847 posts)different than what they did back then. They had a ton of people fighting mad about governmental agencies and the Washington Post being even worse than the stuff they're saying now about Mueller and the FBI. It's hard, but we have to be patient. Trump is bound to have a million skeletons.
xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)similarities as well.