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These Trump shills will be the first to turn on him -- and he knows it (the so-called "MAGA journalist")
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/these-maga-shills-will-be-the-first-to-go-to-prison/Opinion by Tara Dublin
While the MAGA “influencer” accounts have exponentially more followers than I do, almost all of them are fake. They’re designed to create false engagement, so the MAGA propaganda merchants are always at the top of my “For You” feed, even though I don’t follow any of them.
Most Americans aren’t on Twitter (bless their lucky little hearts), so they’re not familiar with Nick Sortor, Cam Higby, Benny Johnson, and Tim Pool. But they were recently introduced to Nick “Baby Teeth” Shirley, the self-avowed 23-year-old virgin who can’t pronounce “benevolent,” thanks to his video allegedly exposing fraud at daycares in Minneapolis. Specifically targeting the Somali community, along with Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Shirley’s video worked exactly as Trump hoped. He needed a new distraction from the Epstein Files Transparency Act, so Shirley was sent to Minneapolis to make one happen.
All of a sudden, the focus shifted from Epstein to yet another blue city where Trump could send in federal agents to foment violence on the streets. But unlike his attempts in Chicago and Portland, Trump’s arbitrary invasion of Minneapolis has come with a body count.
The MAGA smearing of the murdered Renee Good was bad enough, but the response to Alex Pretti’s execution by seven ICE agents has shown the world just how low MAGA is willing to go to protect their Dear Leader. A handful of Congressional Republicans have begun to push back but there are far too many still standing with the Epstein Bestie who hung a framed photo of himself with Vladimir Putin in the White House — above a photo of himself with one of his grandchildren, who I bet he couldn’t name if you asked him while standing right in front of the kid.
Most Americans aren’t on Twitter (bless their lucky little hearts), so they’re not familiar with Nick Sortor, Cam Higby, Benny Johnson, and Tim Pool. But they were recently introduced to Nick “Baby Teeth” Shirley, the self-avowed 23-year-old virgin who can’t pronounce “benevolent,” thanks to his video allegedly exposing fraud at daycares in Minneapolis. Specifically targeting the Somali community, along with Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Shirley’s video worked exactly as Trump hoped. He needed a new distraction from the Epstein Files Transparency Act, so Shirley was sent to Minneapolis to make one happen.
All of a sudden, the focus shifted from Epstein to yet another blue city where Trump could send in federal agents to foment violence on the streets. But unlike his attempts in Chicago and Portland, Trump’s arbitrary invasion of Minneapolis has come with a body count.
The MAGA smearing of the murdered Renee Good was bad enough, but the response to Alex Pretti’s execution by seven ICE agents has shown the world just how low MAGA is willing to go to protect their Dear Leader. A handful of Congressional Republicans have begun to push back but there are far too many still standing with the Epstein Bestie who hung a framed photo of himself with Vladimir Putin in the White House — above a photo of himself with one of his grandchildren, who I bet he couldn’t name if you asked him while standing right in front of the kid.
• Trust me, Trump will throw these small, basement-dwelling fish under the bus first.
• And we’ll still never stop talking about the Epstein Files, no matter what manufactured distraction they come up with next.