re: #202 Eclectic Cyborg

Nah, they’ll just label CNN Fake News and call it a day.

Josh Marshall made an interesting point: not only did Trump’s racism inspire the El Paso killer, but also Trump’s gaslighting:

There’s abundant evidence the shooter is a big fan of President Trump and certainly of his worldview. And yet the manifesto includes a sort of preemptive rebuttal of any claims that he is a Trump supporter or that Trump influenced. He predicts that “the media” will identify him as a white supremacist and blame President Trump’s racist and xenophobic rhetoric for radicalizing him and provoking the attack. Such claims would be “fake news” and such claims will indeed only prove that “the media” is “fake news.