Trump Blasts Into Monday Afternoon Twitter Conspiracy & Gets A Huge Dose Of Karma

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There are two constants in the current U.S. national political conversation — President Donald Trump’s affinity for conspiracy theories and talk of former FBI employees Lisa Page and Peter Strzok. The two converged in yet another an angry Monday tweet from the president.

He wrote of a supposed conspiracy theory that had been unearthed in text conversations between the two agents, exclaiming:

‘Immediately after Comey’s firing Peter Strzok texted to his lover, Lisa Page “We need to Open the case we’ve been waiting on now while Andy (McCabe, also fired) is acting. Page answered, “We need to lock in (redacted). In a formal chargeable way. Soon.” Wow, a conspiracy caught?’

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Bluntly — no. A conspiracy wasn’t caught. There’s no evidence that the texts the president mentions indicate any behavior that is out of line, although at present, the Inspector General overseeing the Justice Department continues to look into the matter.

Both Page and Strzok have declined to answer questions about what investigation they were speaking of rushing to open in their early 2017 texts — but an absence of every last piece of information that the president’s endlessly conspiratorial mind craves doesn’t mean they’re guilty of wrongdoing.

The tumult over the comments shared between the former FBI officials comes after a long line of similar tumults over particular comments that quickly fizzled out. For instance, Republicans claimed at one point that portions of the two’s unearthed conversations revealed a secret society inside the nation’s justice system — a real deep state! — except they didn’t. The reference to a “secret society” was a joke.

More recently, Trump and his minions lost it over a reference to a “media leak strategy” in a text from Strzok. Here, they claimed, was the evidence needed to prove that interests inside the Justice Department were hellbent on undermining the Trump team through media leaks! The president’s paranoia was well founded after all!

Except it wasn’t. Strzok’s lawyer Aitan Goelman explained:

‘The term “media leak strategy” in Mr. Strzok’s text refers to a Department-wide initiative to detect and stop leaks to the media. The president and his enablers are once again peddling unfounded conspiracy theories to mislead the American People.’

In the end, then, all that’s been proven is that a great deal of Republicans have absolutely no idea how to handle real humans having real conversations. Maybe they’re lizard people after all. At the very least, many of them are Alex Joneses in the making.

Check out Twitter’s response to the president below.

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