Since President Trump’s election, his loyalists online have provided him with a steady stream of provocative posts and shareable memes, often filtered up from platforms like Reddit through media channels like Fox News. In return, Mr. Trump has championed many of their messages as his own, amplifying them back to his larger base.
This feedback loop is how #JobsNotMobs came to be. In less than two weeks, the three-word phrase expanded from corners of the right-wing internet onto some of the most prominent political stages in the country, days before the midterm elections.
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Since the midterm elections, no evidence has emerged suggesting results were tainted by illegal votes, from illegal immigrants or anyone else.
The statement was par for the course for Dobbs, who was bashing immigrants before it was fashionable, citing misleading evidence or none at all. Last month, he invoked the word “invasion” dozens of times on his program when talking about the migrant caravan, according to NPR, parroting the same language used by President Trump.
Dobbs didn’t even pretend to have evidence of the illegal voting Thursday night. He just said it, apropos of nothing, during his show, “Lou Dobbs Tonight.”
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Dobbs, in his interview with The Post about Trump’s 2016 illegal voting claims, said he hoped Trump “would consider me a friend and supporter.” Such an ardent supporter of the president, he once had to apologize for https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/10/14/she-accused-trump-of-sexual-assault-lou-dobbs-tweeted-her-phone-number/?utm_term=.6e603b381a34 (doxing a woman who accused Trump of sexual assault) after he posted her phone number and address on Twitter.
Dobbs has been described as “one of the main precursors to Trumpism.” He’s also friends with Trump, who reportedly loves his show. The Daily Beast, citing sources, reported in April that “Dobbs doesn’t get to just interview and socialize with the president; he is involved in some of the administration’s more sensitive discussions. During the first year of the Trump era, the president has patched in Dobbs via speakerphone to multiple meetings in the Oval Office so that he could offer his two cents.”
In return, Trump regularly quotes and promotes Dobbs’s show.
No patriotic American should be celebrating the career of Julian Assange. His dissemination of others’ secrets has nothing to do with democracy and transparency, and everything to do with the sordid underworld of international espionage. WikiLeaks is a functional subsidiary of Vladimir Putin’s intelligence services and Assange—hiding in a London embassy rather than face charges as a sexual predator—is on the end of a long but firm Russian string.
The connections between WikiLeaks and the Russians are obvious, except to the people who prefer not to see them. This is not a liberal or conservative matter; opportunists of every stripe look away from the mysteries of how Assange and WikiLeaks manage to survive, physically and financially, rather than to admit that a crusade for “transparency” and “freedom” is little more than a Russian operation directed at the West’s most gullible citizens.
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