During a speech Tuesday night in Palm Beach, Florida, Donald Trump Jr. suggested that there are top officials in the United States government working to undermine the Trump administration, feeding the conspiracy theory pushed by some Trump officials earlier in the year that the “deep state” is working against President Donald Trump.
Trump Jr. did not specifically mention the FBI and special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, but he referenced text messages sent by a former member of Mueller’s team about his father, suggesting that he believes that investigators on the Russia probe are out to destroy his father.
Trump Jr. brought up the agent’s August 2016 mention of an “insurance policy,” which the Wall Street Journal reported was used to convey that the agent believed the FBI needed to aggressively investigate potential collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia in case Trump won the presidency.
Trump Jr. asked the audience to imagine if an agent in a bureau led by a conservative director had sent something similar about Barack Obama in 2008.
“What do you think would happen? Do you think the media would cover that? Yeah,” Trump Jr. said. “Do you think it would be brushed under the rug like, ‘Oh, thats nothing. It doesn’t mean anything.’ There’d be revolution in the streets. So I’m glad that this is coming out now, because it is good, because real people have to see this.”
He went on to suggest that the text messages suggest that the system is in fact rigged against his father.
“My father talked about a rigged system throughout the campaign, and people went, ‘Oh, what are you talking about?’ But it is,” Trump Jr. said. “There are people at the highest levels of government that don’t want to let America be America.”
Watch a clip of Trump Jr.’s speech via CNN:
Donald Trump Jr.: There are “people at the highest levels of government that don’t want to let America be America” https://t.co/bNpRK9uFLw https://t.co/zr5YeK2uUw
— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) December 20, 2017
Deep State to Junior: Fuck you and your whole crime family. Kat
As someone once said Even paranoids have enemies.
God, I can’t wait until this asshole is in jail.
Well Junior,
Daily information comes out that suggests that you, your dad, the campaign, the transition team, and now your dad’s administration - have been actively working to undermine the US govt and the whole US.
Just one example with Flynn - from the dumped FOIA email troves: https://gizmodo.com/trump-transition-team-discussed-michael-flynn-using-sig-1821429655
Eric Trump hasn’t made news in a while, so reading this reminds me that I’ve lost track of which Trump son is the dumb one.