Posted on 01/11/2023 11:54:21 AM PST by SoConPubbie
Former President Donald Trump still has a reverence for the FBI, even after the Russia collusion debacle and Mar-a-Lago raid. But he's adamant the bureau needs to be banned from meddling in elections by pressuring social media firms to censor Americans' opinions.
In a wide-ranging interview Tuesday with Just the News, America's 45th president said it was "shocking to me" when Twitter released internal files showing the extent of FBI efforts to censor content during the 2020 election, including the creation of a command center in San Francisco just for that mission.
"You always want to love the FBI and all you know it stands for, the image of what it stands for," Trump told the John Solomon Reports podcast and "Just the News, No Noise" television show on Real America's Voice.
"And then you see where the FBI was actually rigging the election," he continued, "where they were suppressing bad news on Biden and they say push the good news on Biden, and the exact opposite on me."
A poll released last month found three quarters of American voters believed they lacked "critical" information about Hunter Biden's laptop during the 2020 elections, and half would have voted differently if they had know the Biden scandal allegations were authentic.
The poll showed more than two-thirds of voters believed the FBI and U.S. intelligence deliberately misled the public by urging Facebook and Twitter to stop spreading the laptop stories by portraying them as foreign "disinformation."
Trump said the FBI's role in suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story still needs to be more thoroughly investigated. But he said the bureau's impact through censorship on the election was exacerbated by a news media that leans left and refuses to challenge establishment narratives even when contrary evidence surfaces. "The media is just so corrupt," he said.
"If you have a story that's positive about Trump, they just won't write it, and if you have a story that's positive about Biden, or some Democrat or whatever, that side of the equation, they make it, you know, front page news," Trump said, insisting that media coverage this week of the discovery of classified documents in Joe Biden's private office was underplayed compared to the raid last August on his Mar-a-Lago compound or the original Russia collusion allegations from 2016-17.
"A report came out yesterday that, by the way, showed the influence of Russia over the election was tiny," he said. "There was nothing. It was nothing. It was all a big hoax, it was a scam. It's a witch hunt. And it continues to this day. But I think that this new revelation on Biden with the highly classified documents is a tough thing for them. I don't know how they handle that one."
Trump put The Fey Wray in charge.
Who’s fault was that?
I am old enough to remember when Russians buying a few ads on Facebook was “COLLUSION!”
No.
There should be a dozen lawsuits filed for election interference and violations of civil rights
I doubt he’s actually shocked.
However if he really is shocked, it demonstrates what was seriously wrong with him as President.
Naive in the way our government actually works and the depth of resentment towards outsiders.
Him saying he was shocked, will impact more people than him
saying he knew it all along.
Many people think he has it in for certain agencies already,
so they would have expected him to know they did.
By saying he was shocked, some people on the left might
think, wow he didn’t even know. This must be way over the
line.
Not the majority, but some folks perhaps already having
some doubts about the Left.
If we wasn’t shocked he should have unloaded Wray long ago.
Trump appointed whoever Mitch McConnell said he would approve.
“ Who’s fault was that?”
Mitch McConnell.
Next question.
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Trump embraced Wray who is a deep stater. Now, Trump is shocked? This isn’t 4D chess. Rather, it is Tiddle E Winks.
“You always want to love the FBI and all you know it stands for, the image of what it stands for,”
This is one of Trump’s flaws, that he engages in wishful thinking even when he probably knows that he shouldn’t. It might be a benefit to him in some business situations, to have that kind of unmerited optimism, but in politics, it’s an Achilles heel.
“Mitch McConnell.”
Nobody elected McConnell president.
“ Nobody elected McConnell president.”
Tell him that. He wouldn’t have brought any other name to the floor for a vote.
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DeSantis would have told Mitch who to approve.
Ah yes, Putin's chef. The guy is a genius - he storms Ukraine cities, wins elections for Trump with only $10K in Facebook ads, and cooks a lovely Cauliflower Au Gratin.
Remember when Mueller, deep-state hack he was, with so much media fanfare filed charges against "10 Russian Companies" for election interference?
Two of these companies actually hired lawyers, requested evidence, and asked to go to trial.
They never got any documents or reply from Mueller or the DOJ. The DOJ then abandoned all charges against these "Russian companies" about 3 weeks after Biden was inaugurated.
there is NO WAY the Russians are as corrupt as our own Government.
Wray and Garland were two of his worst appointments.
I agree with your thought there.
He had time to know, and they both should have been unloaded
while he was in office > IMO.
Not the Twitter stuff, but other things should have tipped
him off.
Well, that’s not the mark of a strong leader.
“He wouldn’t have brought any other name to the floor for a vote.”
Yes, but there were other ways to get someone loyal in without a floor vote. Trump just didn’t use them, or not until it was basically too late.
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