Trump just claimed Sen Slotkin is threatening prosecutions to scare young people away from politics. False. This was picked up from a clipped video on an obscure right wing site that was then amplified by big MAGA. Note how the "reporter" teed up Trump here: newrepublic.com/article/2168...

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This awful saga is a good glimpse into how MAGA gets propaganda laundered into mainstream discourse by making just enough noise to get news outlets to treat their outrage as a "controversy," which then requires even-handed treatement of both sides' stances: newrepublic.com/article/2168...

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This has been the fundamental mechanism through which political media operates my entire life. The right makes a bunch of noise about a fake scandal, the mainstream media "covers the controversy," & normie voters get the vague impression that Dems are constantly involved in scandal.

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Are you kidding? They are NOT powerless to stop him. The list of things Trump could legitimately be impeached and removed for is as long as Santa Christmas list. Low-hanging fruit in abundance. Tantalizing, as it were. They can stop him as soon as they grow a pair.

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Lol, the perils of italics not showing up in social headlines…

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