You knew it was coming: the next big conspiracy theory about President Trump. They clung to Russia as long as humanly possible, parlayed that into “He’s Putin’s puppet,” and rolled into the idea that he’s corrupt beyond belief without being able to name anyway in which he is, in fact, corrupt, which would seem like a crucial element of a corruption charge. Well, now they’ve collectively come up with a new one, still vague, but new – insider trading.
How? It doesn’t matter, really. We’re not dealing with people who are dealing with reality here, we’re dealing with Democrats.
If Donald Trump were half the monster Democrats claim he is, they would be terrified to speak out against him. I don’t know if they know this or not, but fascist dictators aren’t big fans of people calling them fascist dictators, they’re kind of funny that way. They also have a habit of disappearing people who call them out for, well, anything. Yet, MSNBC still exists. CNN still exists. Every columnist at every left-wing corporate media outlet still exists.
OK, fewer of them still exist as their industry is collapsing – and it couldn’t happen to a nicer, more deserving group of people – but while their overall numbers are dwindling, the percentage of hacks in their ranks remains at 100 percent.
Grumblings about “insider trading” and “stock manipulation” come from the same people who, just 2 weeks ago, were insisting that they were going to “take down Tesla’s stock price,” which seems like an attempt at stock manipulation and would allow for someone to short the stock for big profit. But that was different, that was them. Nothing is a problem when a Democrat does it.
Elizabeth Warren told a reporter, “I think we need a full independent investigation into who was trading, who made money, who knew what and when they knew it.”
The same day, Thursday, Dick Blumenthal told reporters his own version of the same lie and call for an investigation, which was not met with an immediate, “Hey, do you have any proof of that?” but rather, “How’s Congress do that with Republicans running it?”
Eventually, he was asked if he had any evidence, to which he responded, “Just the indications and trading patterns, and the knowledge that people in the White House, the administration, had prior knowledge of what the President would do. It’s at least a mandate for some kind of investigation.”
You know who else has “prior knowledge of what the President would do”? Anyone who paid attention to anything he said about trade and tariffs over the last 20 years, at least. Everything the President has done is everything he said he would do; what he campaigned on. If you missed it somehow, or were caught off guard by it, you’re a moron.
If you panicked and sold, that’s on you. If you didn’t buy back in until after the dip, that’s on you too. The Dow Jones Industrial Average free-fell thousands of points in raw numbers, but really only dipped about 5 percent at its bottom, which is almost nothing. Even the stocks that went down 10 percent, regained it, which is a margin that is hardly worth risking going to prison for stock manipulation over.
But Democrats are desperate. Adam Schiff and the gang were sending out fundraising emails left and right. Schiff wrote, “It doesn’t pass the smell test. Especially not from a president who will do anything to enrich himself and his family.” What constitutes “anything”? He doesn’t say.
Schiff continued, “Let’s not forget, this is also someone who surrounds himself with grifters,” but never named any of these “grifters.” Why? Because the absolute immunity from liability or any legal consequence only exists for what they say in the floor of the House or Senate, nowhere else. Democrats are evil, not stupid – they know if they called any random White House employee as a grifter or accused them of a crime they would face a civil suit they would lose.
Keep it vague, keep it alive.
By not adding any details or specifics, Democrats allow the vacuous minds of their supporters to fill in the blanks with whatever adolescent fantasies of Bond villains they need to imagine Trump, Elon Musk or anyone who disagrees with them being, to distract from their own failures.
But conspiracy theories fade away, progressive’s failures endure. That’s what they’re most afraid of.
So, be ready for this “idea” to spread in the media over the next week, as the focus groups have filed their results and the talking point memos have gone out. The hive mind doesn’t need to be ordered, it just knows to obey. And obey they will, until it runs its course, then they’ll move on to the next great “Trump is corrupt Hitler” conspiracy theory.
Derek Hunter is the host of a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.
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