Right Wing Extremism
Attempted Whitmer Kidnappers Were Gun-Rally-Attending Boogaloo Boys
And we've come to expect so much from Michigan-based militias.
October 09, 2020 10:29 AM
At a Second Amendment rally on June 18, an FBI informant recorded attempted kidnapper Adam Fox talking to fellow attempted kidnapper Ty Garbin about his desire to join forces with Garbin's militia in order to overthrow the government of Michigan. But as it turns out, they weren't the only ones there.
Also in attendance were twin brothers Michael and William Null of Shelbyville, Michigan, two of the 13 men arrested in the plot. They were each charged with providing material support for terrorist acts and possessing a gun in the commission of a felony.
Directly above me, men with rifles yelling at us. Some of my colleagues who own bullet proof vests are wearing them… https://t.co/RQ0MfxNkdq— Senator Dayna Polehanki (@Senator Dayna Polehanki)1588264705.0
So, just to be clear here — they were at the Michigan Capitol building agitating for their right to own guns. Guns they planned to use to overthrow Michigan and later use to kidnap the governor of Michigan. That was the right they were fighting for. They believe that they, the kind of people who would get involved with a domestic terror plot, should really have the right to carry guns around with them wherever they go.
<p>In addition to the Null Brothers and the six men named yesterday — Adam Fox, Ty Garbin, Barry Croft, Kaleb Franks, Daniel Harris, and Brandon Caserta — several others have since been named in the plot. The name of the militia group has also been released — the Wolverine Watchmen.</p><p>Via <a href="https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/10/08/governor-gretchen-whitmer-kidnap-plot-militia/5921409002/" target="_blank">Detroit Free Press:</a></p><blockquote>Pete Musico, 42, and Joseph Morrison, 26, who live together in Munith and are each charged with a threat of terrorism, gang membership, providing material support for terrorist acts, and possession of a firearm in commission of a felony; Paul Bellar, 21, of Milford, charged with providing material support for terrorist acts, gang membership, and possessing a firearm in commission of a felony; and Shawn Fix, 38, of Belleville, Eric Molitor, 36, of Cadillac.</blockquote><p>Pete Musico and Joseph "Boogalo Bunyan" Morrison are the founders of the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/10/08/wolverine-watchmen-michigan-militia/" target="_blank">Wolverine Watchmen</a>. They started recruiting members on social media in the fall of 2019 and have since been conducting "field exercises" in hopes of preparing themselves for another civil war. The group has been a fixture at Second Amendment events throughout Michigan — events <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/26/devos-family-michigan-protest-rightwing-donors" target="_blank">funded by the DeVos family — as they believe it is their Second Amendment right to overthrow the government should things not go their way. There was rep</a>ortedly another militia group involved, but its name has not been released yet.</p><p>This morning, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said that she would prefer the men be referred to as "militias," but rather as domestic terrorists. </p><div id="33bb5" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="3e1247f8b07d6cfbde4d7f5850ab489e"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1314543058197843980" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">They’re not “militias.” They’re domestic terrorists endangering and intimidating their fellow Americans. Words matter.</div> — Governor Gretchen Whitmer (@Governor Gretchen Whitmer)<a href="https://twitter.com/GovWhitmer/statuses/1314543058197843980">1602246462.0</a></blockquote></div><p>Of course, for many of us, militias — <em>particularly those based in Michigan</em> — are virtually synonymous with domestic terrorism. And really — what are these militias even doing other than preparing themselves to kill the rest of us in a civil war or overthrow the government? What purpose is it that they serve, other than that? What? Are the Redcoats coming? </p><p>Michigan Democrats have attempted recently to pass two bills barring people from bringing guns into the legislature, as they did that day in June. Republicans, naturally, have blocked them. But part of the plan here was for these people to storm the legislature and take people hostage.</p><div id="f532c" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="1d4ed48d5b34b585b42b593a766dc83b"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1314243171581341696" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">You know who those potential hostages would have been? STATE LEGISLATORS. My colleagues. My friends. Me.
There wa… https://t.co/BVCF7PKRfe</div> — Darrin Camilleri (@Darrin Camilleri)<a href="https://twitter.com/darrincamilleri/statuses/1314243171581341696">1602174964.0</a></blockquote></div><p>These people could very easily pretend to be having a "We Heart The Second Amendment" rally, as they did in June, and then just go full <em>Dog Day Afternoon</em> on everybody. So perhaps — just perhaps — it might be a good idea to make it <em>slightly</em> more difficult for them to do that. </p><p>[<a href="https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/10/08/governor-gretchen-whitmer-kidnap-plot-militia/5921409002/" target="_blank">Detroit Free Press</a>]<strong></strong></p><p></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/33mKzZe" target="_blank">Do your Amazon shopping through this link, because reasons</a>.</p><p></p><p></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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Patriot Grifter WALL Guy Brian Kolfage Building Army Of Death-Threating Trolls
He seems terrible!
October 08, 2020 03:07 PM
Remember Brian Kolfage, the triple-amputee Iraq veteran who raised an assload of money to help Donald Trump build WALL, then found out that wasn't legal, so he created a nonprofit called "We Build the Wall" (incorrectly spelled with some lowercase letters) to put up WALL on private land? The group managed to put up two sections of WALL that are wholly separate from Donald Trump's beloved project, which border-crossers can craftily avoid by going around them, and one of the WALL sections may get eated by the Rio Grande but lots of wingnut patriots think Kolfage is maybe the third greatest American ever, after Donald Trump and Alex Jones. Too bad he and one of his partners, Steve Bannon, got charged by the feds with defrauding their donors by allegedly taking a lot of that money and spending it on themselves, presumably to reward their own patriotism.
In a follow-up story to their earlier joint reporting on just how shitty and fally-downy the Texas section of WALL is, ProPublica and the Texas Tribune recently reported on Kolfage's other fun hobby, which is sending an army of social media followers after anyone who speaks ill of him. Kolfage's supporters know he is American Patriotism personified, so anyone who opposes his WALL is clearly an enemy of the USA. And how's this for fun? The reporters found that while Kolfage has personally been banned by Facebook, he's still able to lead his online brigades through a "fan page" that he supposedly can't access because it's run by his wife. Yet somehow, people are still informed who their enemies are! Like particularly anyone in the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, which is pursuing the fraud case and is obviously part of the Deep State.
<p>The report, based on multiple interviews and "hundreds of screenshots of since-deleted social media posts," not to mention records from two defamation lawsuits, details how, since he became a rightwing mover and shaker around 2013, Kolfage has unleashed his rabid followers on an array of people, enough to have </p><blockquote>spawned an informal support group of individuals who have felt his wrath, including fellow veterans and progressives, as well as some of Kolfage's former conservative allies.</blockquote><p>Among those he's targeted have been people Kolfage perceived as getting in the way of WALL, like the mayor of a New Mexico town who — like some kind of communist — tried to stop Kolfage from throwing up the structure without building permits. Or a priest in Texas who preferred not to have his historic mission flooded if the WALL going up along the Rio Grande changed the river's flow due to high water. Also the head of a neighboring wildlife refuge who opposed WALL. And the staff of an international commission that has jurisdiction over construction along the Rio Grande. </p><h2>Facebook Is A Hive Of Scum And Villainy</h2><p>Other folks who subjected to the wrath of Kolfage's online jihadists included Jan Vrotsos, a 61-year-old woman whose name and Facebook ID were falsely attached to a post attacking Kolfage and disabled vets, as well as Jackie Millinor, 64, a retired Air Force vet who wrote in defense of Vrotsos. Both received all sorts of hideous messages and threats — not just online, but over the phone, too. </p><p>Vrotsos somehow got the attention of Kolfage's army in 2013 when she posted a sympathy message for what she thought was a family who had lost a child to cancer. The post she replied to was on a fake page Kolfage fans had created to ensnare a completely unrelated liberal blogger. And then shit, as it does on the internet, went weird: </p><blockquote>Someone, it's unclear who, then posted a fabricated comment to Kolfage from Vrotsos calling disabled veterans worthless. "I hope you die a miserable death you worthless fake hero. You and your family will be a burden on tax payers your entire life," the fake message read, accompanied by Vrotsos' profile picture of her standing in front of a sunflower field with her cocker spaniel, Buddy.<br><br>The post went viral. It was shared by Kolfage and his followers, along with Vrotsos' picture, email and home address, as well as the phone numbers of her and her mother.<br><br>"This lady is enjoying her freedom at the expense of my legs and hand and enjoys bashing wounded warriors," Kolfage wrote on social media. "EXPOSE HER." It was liked by nearly 1,300 people and shared more than 12,000 times.</blockquote><p>Then Vrotsos's mother, then 81, started getting phone calls telling her that her daughter needed to get her affairs in order. Vrotsos herself was targeted with hundreds of threats, including one lover of America and all that's good and holy who said they hoped she would be "mugged and raped at gunpoint by a aids ridden piece of filth." That'll learn her to attack a disabled vet, which she hadn't.</p><p>Police told Vrotsos that unfortunately there was little they could do, because First Amendment, unless she experienced "real threats and intentional ID theft." They suggested she might sue, and eventually she did, which won her an apology from Kolfage, isn't that great? And now everything's not quite fine:</p><blockquote>But what bothered her the most, she said in a recent phone interview, is that the harassers found out where her dad was buried, and that they threatened to dig up the World War II veteran and "piss on his grave."<br><br>"I was petrified," she said. She didn't leave her house for weeks. It would be years before she stopped looking over her shoulder, afraid people would recognize her.</blockquote><p>Oh, yes, and until all that started, she'd never heard of Kolfage. Now she has! Bet she'll think twice before insulting a vet, not that she ever did, even once. Millinor, for her part, got attacked simply for posting a message in support of Vrotsos; in return, she got doxxed and harassed, and says Kolfage contacted her employer and urged she be fired for "harassing" a wounded warrior. It didn't work, but she had such serious stress that she was hospitalized for gastrointestinal issues. </p><blockquote>"It broke a piece of me," Millinor said recently. "I'm not the same person now as before, after what Brian Kolfage did to me. My own family members thought I was crazy."</blockquote><h2>Up Against The WALL</h2><p>The opponents of the Texas and New Mexico WALL projects got the full Kolfage, too, being accused of supporting immigrant smugglers, child traffickers, and sex trafficking. The mayor of Sunland Park, New Mexico, Javier Perea, got death threats and warnings to watch his back after he brazenly said We Build the Wall needed a construction permit; he dismisses the harassment as a publicity stunt aimed at fundraising, but says even a year later he still had thousands of unread emails about the matter. </p><p> The International Boundary and Water Commission, located in El Paso, was accused by Kolfage of trying to support illegal immigration when officials "opened a gate We Build the Wall constructed on federal property without permission." Yes, really. Clearly, commissioner Jayne Harkins was leaving the gate open to help out illegal border crossers, although she was a Trump appointee. A spokesperson for the commission, Sally Spener, said it was difficult to get anything done in the office because of all the people calling to yell "#CloseTheGate," and we bet most of them said the hashtag out loud, too. </p><p>Asked about that mess, Kolfage told ProPublica and the <em>Tribune</em> that the border region is lousy with corruption! "It was border patrol agents who alerted us that the very first people to come out strong against our wall were the ones paid off," he explained. Which surely justified the death threats against the priest, and against Marianna Treviño-Wright, the director of the National Butterfly Center, which is next door to the Rio Grande WALL. Kolfage accused her of enabling sex trafficking, and also sent a nice tweet to let her know there were "snipers in your bushes doing security for our team." For some reason, she considered that a threat; she's also filed a defamation suit against Kolfage. </p><p>And now Kolfage's army is going after the federal prosecutors in New York because obviously they're part of a plot to destroy him and America. </p><blockquote>A recent Facebook post garnered more than 1,500 angry comments supporting him.<br><br>"I see public hangings on the White house lawn," one person commented on a recent post about why the indictment was a political hit job, adding, "Obama should be 1st."</blockquote><h2>Dipshits United</h2><p>Kolfage also has no end of supporters in wingnut media, like Stupidest Man on the Internet Jim Hoft, whose Gateway Pundit today <a href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/10/exclusive-egregious-case-us-history-just-got-worse-now-new-jersey-looking-build-wall/" target="_blank">called the fraud prosecution </a>"the most egregious abuse of power in US history," recounted what a hero Kolfage is, and retold the story of his August arrest at length (misspelling his name at least once, because the site has a reputation to uphold). You have to read all the way to the penultimate paragraph to find the supposed news hook: The New Jersey AG is looking at prosecuting We Build the Wall for fraud, too. HOW UNFAIR! Clearly, the piece closes, "The abuse of power by crooked Democrat attorneys in positions of power will not end."</p><p>We'll just float this possibility raised by Robyn in the Wonkette chatcave: Why charge rightwing grifters for fraud at all, when it looks like their victims are so eager to throw money at them even if the funds end up lining their pockets? 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Trump Retweets Story About Trump Fan Who Voter Frauded To See If Voter Fraud Is Real. Guess It Is!
FRAUDCEPTION!
October 07, 2020 01:56 PM
Yet another Donald Trump supporter, this time a bona fide Florida Man, has attempted ballot fraud, just to check to see if the voting system is secure. The amateur investigator, one Larry Wiggins of Manatee County, sent in an absentee ballot request for his late wife Ursula, who died in 2018, and the system worked exactly as it should: County election officials saw that the late Mrs. Wiggins had been removed from the voter rolls, and saw the signature on the ballot application didn't match one on file, so they contacted law enforcement. A deputy arrested Wiggins last week, and after being booked on one count of requesting an absentee ballot on behalf of another elector, a third-degree felony, Wiggins was released.
Wiggins, a "self-described Democrat who supports President Donald Trump," told WFLA-TV he was worried about ballot integrity, you see, presumably since Donald Trump says mail-in ballots are an invitation to fraud.
"I heard so much about ballots being sent in and people just having found them in different places," said Mr. Wiggins. "I feel like I haven't done anything wrong."
The 62 year-old said he was just testing Florida's voting system.
It works! He couldn't get away with attempted voter fraud, which should be a great relief to people worried about voter fraud.
Aw, don't be ridiculous! Donald Trump saw a story about Wiggins and retweeted it, because look at the fraud! (Which didn't lead to a fake vote at all, because ballot security really is a thing.)
<p>Isn't rightwing media a glorious circle of grievance? A guy worried about the integrity of the ballot (none of the news reports we've seen specify where he heard mail-in voting was prone to fraud, <em>gee we wonder where?</em>), so he fraudulently requested a ballot. The fraud was detected, and he was arrested. And now he's all over rightwing media as proof of the threat of voter fraud, and a story about him even got the attention of the chief spreader of false claims about voter fraud. It's freaking WONDERFUL in its circularity! </p><p>And as you'd expect, the wingnuttosphere has run with the story; Glenn Beck's Home For Disgruntled White People went out of its way to include Wiggins's scary mug shot — not to be racist or anything, it's his actual face, after all — and his party affiliation, though the story conveniently forgot to mention Wiggins is a Trump supporter.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-rebelmouse-image">
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</p><p><br></p><p>Jim Hoft, the Stupidest Man on the Internet, went one better, with a story headlined "Crooked Democrat Requests Ballot for Dead Wife — Says 'I Haven't Done Anything Wrong,'" in which he suggested the late Mrs. Wiggins was somehow crooked too: "Wiggins and his wife are Democrats." Yes, it's a stain that follows one into death. Again, no mention of Mr. Wiggins's enthusiasm for Donald Trump or his concern that absentee ballots are bad news. (Don't read the comments, which are as gleefully racist as you'd expect.) In addition, Fox News and Sean Hannity <a href="https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/columns/2020/10/06/florida-man-and-ballot-dead-wife-hide-bigger-voter-story-state/5897127002/" target="_blank">pushed the story</a> with no mention of Wiggins's loyalty to the Great Leader.</p><p>For what it's worth (very little), the <a href="https://thegreggjarrett.com/florida-man-caught-requesting-ballot-for-wife-who-died-in-2018/?utm_source=socialflow" target="_blank">blog post </a>Trump retweeted, by Fox News contributor Gregg Jarrett, does at least mention Wiggins is a Trump supporter — in its next-to-last paragraph, between two blocks of ads. But surely you don't expect Donald Trump to <em>read</em> the stuff he retweets, and nothing in the headline or description suggests that this was a follower of Donald Trump simply doing his own investigation into whether absentee voting is secure. </p><p>As <em>Palm Beach Post </em>columnist Frank Cerabino <a href="https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/columns/2020/10/06/florida-man-and-ballot-dead-wife-hide-bigger-voter-story-state/5897127002/" target="_blank">points out, </a>there really IS a scandal involving voting in Florida this week, but it's not about one guy being prevented from voting illegally. Instead, it involved Crom only knows how many Floridians who were unable to register to vote Monday, the final day to register before the election, because the state's online registration system was overloaded and unable to function for hours. The same thing happened on the deadline for the primary elections this year, so officials certainly couldn't claim the heavy traffic was a surprise, leading critics to call it </p><blockquote> a systematic effort through negligence or design to suppress the vote in Florida.<br><br>"This is the third time your site has crashed on a critical day for voter registration," tweeted Steve Simeonidis, the chairman of the Miami-Dade Democratic Party. "YOU KNEW THERE WAS GOING TO BE HIGH VOLUME."<br><br>State Agriculture Secretary Nikki Fried wrote to Gov. Ron DeSantis: "The voter registration deadline in Florida is just hours away, and the online voter registration system is broken. This is unacceptable. Fix it now."</blockquote><p>The registration hours were eventually extended, but who knows how many people just gave up? </p><p>But what the hell, potentially thousands of people being unable to register at all is nowhere near as big a concern as one guy whose attempt to illegally obtain a ballot was blocked by the system, which works just fine. It just proves we need to make voting much harder, to prevent fraud. </p><p>[<a href="https://twitter.com/nickpwing/status/1313659126489255936" target="_blank">Nick Wing</a> on Twitter / <a href="https://www.wfla.com/8-on-your-side/manatee-co-man-who-requested-ballot-for-dead-wife-i-feel-like-i-havent-done-anything-wrong/" target="_blank">WFLA</a> / <a href="https://thegreggjarrett.com/florida-man-caught-requesting-ballot-for-wife-who-died-in-2018/?utm_source=socialflow" target="_blank">Gregg Jarrett</a> / <a href="https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/columns/2020/10/06/florida-man-and-ballot-dead-wife-hide-bigger-voter-story-state/5897127002/" target="_blank">Palm Beach Post]</a></p><p>Yr Wonkette is entirely funded by reader donations. Please help us keep you up to date on the wild and wacky world we live in! </p><p></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/33mKzZe" target="_blank">Do your Amazon shopping through this link, because reasons</a>.</p><p></p><p></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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DHS Officials Advised To Be Nice When Talking About Kenosha Shooter, Who Had A Rough Day
Kids make mistakes, you know?
October 02, 2020 09:30 AM
Young people have a hard time making sense of this crazy old world, so it's only reasonable that the Department of Homeland Security would distribute talking points to officials that emphasized the sympathetic side of Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old charged with murdering two people during protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin. NBC News says it obtained briefing documents that instructed officials speaking to the media to put an understanding spin on the young man who traveled from his home in Illinois with a semiautomatic rifle across state lines to Kenosha to play vigilante.
Or as the talking points put it, Rittenhouse "took his rifle to the scene of the rioting to help defend small business owners." What a public-spirited fellow! NBC News is careful to note that it's "unclear whether any of the talking points originated at the White House or within Homeland Security's own press office."
<p>NBC News ran the documents past former DHS officials, who said it sure was "unusual for law enforcement officials to be instructed to weigh in on a case involving a particular group or individual before investigations had concluded." But this is the Trump administration, where it's never too soon to decide who the good guys are and why it's OK they shot some damn antifa terror commies. </p><blockquote>"It is as unprecedented as it is wrong," said Peter Boogaard, who was a spokesperson for Homeland Security during the Obama administration.<br><br>"What strikes me about the talking points is that they didn't call for calm among the public," said Elizabeth Neumann, who served as DHS's assistant secretary for threat prevention and security policy in the Trump administration. </blockquote><p>The article notes that Neumann left her job in April and has endorsed Joe Biden (and, we'd add, she even appeared in a <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/hey-check-out-this-totally-real-democrat-voters-against-biden-group" target="_blank">"Republicans against Trump" ad</a>), so clearly she can't be objective about what a brave little guy Rittenhouse was. </p><p>The talking points also advise that "Kyle was seen being chased and attacked by rioters before allegedly shooting three of them, killing two," and that "Subsequent video has emerged reportedly showing that there were 'multiple gunmen' involved, which would lend more credence to the self-defense claims."</p><p>The document also advises officials, when asked by the media to comment on Rittenhouse, to say they won't comment on an ongoing investigation, but to add the completely neutral observation, </p><blockquote>What I will say is that Rittenhouse, just like everyone else in America, is innocent until proven guilty and deserves a fair trial based on all the facts, not just the ones that support a certain narrative. This is why we try the accused in the court of law, not the star chamber of public opinion.</blockquote><p>And then they should also underline the administration's love of Law 'n' Order: </p><blockquote>This is also why we need to stop the violence in our cities. Chaotic and violent situations lead to chaotic, violent and tragic outcomes. Everyone needs law and order.</blockquote><p>We'll also note that the article generated a little pushback from inside DHS; two "high-ranking DHS officials" <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/01/dhs-officials-nbc-news-misconstrues-kyle-rittenhouse-background-information-with-talking-points/" target="_blank">told the Federalist</a> that NBC News got it all wrong, apparently because the officials wanted to talk to the most credible outlet they could think of. In their spinning of the story, the only "talking points" in the documents were the instructions to refuse comment on an ongoing investigation, and to push law and order, while the other exculpatory-sounding points in the memo were merely "background" that DHS folks should be aware of, but not points to make to the press, heavens no!<br></p><blockquote>According to these officials, the allegations raised by NBC are referring to a section of the briefing document purposefully labeled "situation" and designed to grant background information to the federal law enforcement officers involved in the case. The second section of the document labeled "response" outlines the talking points intended for use by officers.</blockquote><p>That actually seems plausible, since the advice for speaking to the media emphasizes the "no comment but let's not judge the boy in the media" bit. Without seeing the actual documents, we don't know how the "situation" bit was framed. </p><p>But hilariously, the Federalist wants us to believe that it's somehow <em>no big deal</em> that DHS delivered law enforcement officials a propagandistic bunch of bullet points slanted in Rittenhouse's favor, as long as they're merely "background" information. Sure, it's pushing a very sympathetic view of the accused murderer, but it's not for public consumption, so here's how we think of Our Boy Kyle. </p><p>For that matter, the Federalist even shares one far more damning bit of spin than what the NBC News piece included, explaining, </p><blockquote>The situational background outlines how media and Democrats "are trying to craft the narrative of a police-obsessed lone-wolf" and a "white supremacist" using "zero evidence." </blockquote><p>But you see, that's not a "talking point," it's just objective background propaganda to make sure DHS employees are all on the same page about how Democrats and the media cannot be trusted, those filthy liars. </p><p>Heck of a self-own, Federalist! Who funds you, anyway?</p><p>Gee, NBC News sure was dumb to suggest there's anything odd about these perfectly normal documents. What a bunch of amateurs.</p><p>[<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/internal-document-shows-trump-officials-were-told-make-comments-sympathetic-n1241581" target="_blank">NBC News</a> / <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/10/01/dhs-officials-nbc-news-misconstrues-kyle-rittenhouse-background-information-with-talking-points/" target="_blank">Federalist</a>]</p><p>Yr Wonkette is entirely supported by reader donations. Please help us keep you informed on all the very objective facts the administration thinks we should have. </p><p></p><p><a href="https://amzn.to/33mKzZe" target="_blank">Do your Amazon shopping through this link, because reasons</a>.</p><p></p><p></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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