(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Trump Jr posts graphic video of bloody corpses from a "source within Israel" - it's a fake [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-10-11 When his career as a hyperkinetic motormouth ends, Donald Trump Jr. is a first-ballot lock for the Liars Hall of Fame. In his latest assault on decency, America’s most mephitic nepo baby posted a video of bloody corpses littering a floor as celebrating gunmen fire off more shots. He claimed an Israeli source for the video. His aim was plain — to infer that the corpses were Israelis and the gunmen Hamas. It is a lie. The video is of events in Syria in 2015. The post is still up. If you want to see it, you can find it on Twitter. (I provide a screenshot only as evidence of Trump’s dishonesty, should this miserable man find the decency to take it down.) Let’s note his deceit was so profound that Twitter— the vanity project of a notoriously antisemitic, so-called free speech absolutist — posted a correction. However, they have let the lie fester, as the patent falsehood is still up and continues to wind-up the MAGAs with 4 million views and 13,000 likes. It is no surprise. Musk needs clicks and interest — especially as he has stripped headlines from news links and driven sober-minded reporters away as part of his campaign to unmoor Twitter from any objective truth and fact-based debate. (Note: I appreciate the irony (hypocrisy?) of being part of the clicks — but how else do you tell the story? It won’t go away if you ignore it. Suggestions welcomed.) The Republican reaction to Hamas’ stone-age inhumanity with modern weapons has been two minutes of vocal condemnation followed by hours of strident finger-pointing and political haymaking. A tour through the far-right mediasphere will convince the willingly deluded that Biden enabled Hamas’ terrorist carnage by showering the Iranians with American taxpayer money. The race to the bottom has been so intense that even Tim Scott — who by Republican standards has a reputation as a “nice guy” — added his voice to the chorus. “His [Biden’s] weakness invited the attack. His cash giveaways to Iran help fund terrorism and after the attack.” Biden and the American military are the grown-ups in the room. The GOP will remain a wasteland of warring factions — from the “we gotta bomb someone” Lindsay Graham to the “Hamas is already in Cleveland” border hawks . It is no wonder the Israeli authorities are commending Biden — while praying that their Republican “allies” will focus on the task at hand. Good luck with that. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/10/11/2198752/-Trump-Jr-posts-graphic-video-of-bloody-corpses-from-a-source-within-Israel-it-s-a-fake?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=more_community&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/