The feds claim that the accused have been using money that marks and rubes sent to their "Build the Wall" online crowdfunding campaign to build walls around heated swimming pools and four-Porsche garages, rather than along the border to keep out swarthy foreigners and terr'rists.
Lou Dobbs flipped out over the mechanics of the arrest:
Addressing the story on his show on Thursday night, Dobbs, one of Donald Trump’s favorite Fox hosts, said Bannon “was arrested this morning, not by the FBI or US Marshals but by inspectors of the US Postal Service while Bannon was cruising aboard a mega yacht, owned by a Chinese billionaire”.Apparently Lou was unaware that wire fraud, being basically a spinoff crime of mail fraud, falls under the jurisdiction of the United States Postal Inspection Service.
“Yes, you heard that correctly – an elite police unit of the Postal Service. They’re called the US Postal Inspection Service and they had authority to arrest Bannon and they did so … Somehow, the deep state launched agents of the US Postal Service to arrest Mr Bannon.”
This is a law enforcement agency whose roots date back to 1775, thereby antedating the actual, you know, United States itself. It obviously isn't some newfangled bureaucratic construction.
If Lou had paid attention to the Saturday morning Westerns on the ol' black & white Motorola as a kid, he might remember those guys riding in the mail coach with a shotgun. Those dudes weren't working for the FBI. I guess this isn't a part of America Lou wants to Make Great Again?
Settle down, Lou.
Meanwhile, a political candidate's campaign took out an ad at a newspaper. This would seem to be pretty unremarkable, as candidates buying advertising happens all the time.
In this case, however, the campaign is Donald Trump's, and the newspaper it bought ads in was the online edition of the Washington Post (to which I subscribe).
Commentators have been losing their tiny little minds about this. They've been calling out the newspaper's motto, "Democracy Dies in Darkness", and demanding to know how the newspaper could use this tagline and still, you know, accept ads from a political candidate.
The Washington Post's website is covered in Trump ads this morning, including a pre-roll video. It is shameful for the paper to take money from a president whose denunciations endanger journalists and may have contributed to the murder of its columnist, Jamal Khashoggi. pic.twitter.com/AY3ICdFVNf— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) August 20, 2020
The Washington Post has a Trump campaign ad dominating its homepage right now: pic.twitter.com/REgT7pTxLa— Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) August 20, 2020
Apparently in their minds, in a real democracy only one candidate is allowed to buy advertising? How...Soviet of them. I don't know whether democracy dies in darkness or not, but it sure doesn't seem to thrive in dimness.
Settle down, Gertz & Calderone.
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