Former GOP staffer Tim Miller laid into the MAGA universe for convincing themselves that a boilerplate reminder of the FBI’s policy on deadly force in the Mar-a-Lago classified document search warrant proved that FBI agents were on a mission to “assassinate” former President Donald Trump, in a segment on MSNBC Wednesday.
Anchor Joy Reid read off some of the most outrageous responses: “Marjorie Taylor Greene: ‘The Biden DOJ and FBI were planning to assassinate President Trump and gave the green light.’ Representative Paul Gosar: ‘The Biden administration ordered a hit on Trump at Mar-a-Lago.’ Christina Bobb, lawyer of Donald Trump: ‘WTF. They were prepared to kill me? A few dozen FBI agents versus me? What in the world is happening in the United States of America?’ I thought they were for that.”
“Yeah,” said Miller. “It’s interesting Christina Bobb turned around a tweet that quickly after her mugshot for trying to overturn the results of the election in Arizona last time. I think it’s an interesting choice for a RNC lawyer.”
“Look, these people are clowns, Joy,” Miller continued. “We know that. This is all a sham. There’s no way they — maybe some of them are dumb enough to believe it, but most of them cannot believe that Joe Biden ordered a hit on Donald Trump, based on some pablum, pro forma language that is in all the FBI subpoena documents. What I think here, though, is sometimes we’re always kind of torn between, do you laugh at the absurdity or do you raise the alarm about the threat? And I think that we have to do both in these cases.”
“Yes, agreed,” said Reid.
“We can laugh at the ridiculousness, but also, you know, it only takes five people to really believe this, right? And more than five now,” said Miller. “But it only takes some subset of Marjorie Taylor Greene, Paul Gosar, Christina Bobb, Donald Trump’s followers, to believe that Joe Biden really tried to assassinate the person that they look up to, that they think is supposed to save the country. And you can just imagine what the next logical step is for somebody who feels like, you know, this administration is trying to do extrajudicial killings. That’s how people get radicalized. That’s how we end up in places like January 6th. I think it’s, you know, clownishness, but it’s also dangerous.”
