The Washington Post writer Philip Bump has a devastatingly effective method of studying Trumpism. He applies facts and logic to it. Here he is (below) with a crisp installment on why Trump bows to Russia.
Bump files on Trump roughly weekly, and is worth the subscription price. But if you want to really go down the rabbit hole, look at his interview with election denier Dinesh D’Souza. D’Souza is a professional rightwing gas bag who made the hoax documentary “2,000 Mules.” It claims that thousands of people (mules) stuffed ballot boxes in 2020.
Again and again, Bump nails down the squirming D’Souza with his own absurd mistakes (D’Souza never fact checked a single thing in the movie, claiming that’s not his responsibility ) and illogic. In a documentary full of surveillance footage, why isn’t there a single picture or video of anyone voting at two locations? (D’Zouza says it’s the media’s job to go find his evidence.) Why did they fake the maps showing mules driving around Atlanta? (It’s what the evidence would show, if the media stopped covering it up.)
D’Souza is a highly-paid idiot. What’s more disturbing is that millions of Americans never noticed that his movie contains no evidence. Of any kind. They love it and are going with that feeling. It’s all about feelings, unless you are Philip Bump.
By Philip Bump
Column | Trump thinks Ukraine just let Russia do it Trump’s blithe suggestion that Ukraine was culpable for its own invasion reinforces his obsequiousness to Russia — and his views of dominance.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/17/trump-thinks-ukraine-just-let-russia-do-it/
Bump on the illogic, bad math, and absurd gullibility of D’Souza’s “2,000 Mules.”