{"id":3564,"date":"2023-05-26T11:33:12","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T16:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=3564"},"modified":"2023-05-26T11:33:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T16:33:19","slug":"rfk-jr-slams-political-weaponization-of-the-fbi-to-destroy-a-sitting-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=3564","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr Slams \u2018Political Weaponization Of The FBI To Destroy A Sitting President\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cA matrix of lies so elaborate as to make a mockery of the democratic ideal of an informed citizenry.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-108.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-3565\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-108.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-108.png 800w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-108-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-108-770x433.png 770w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-108-293x165.png 293w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/image-108-390x219.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has charged that a \u201cmatrix of lies\u201d was used by a \u201cweaponised\u201d FBI in an attempt \u201cto destroy a sitting president.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RFK Jr. was responding to journalist Matt Taibbi\u2019s reporting on the Durham report, which effectively exonerated President Trump once and for all from bogus charges of Russian collusion, concluding that the FBI had no grounds at all to open an investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is no partisan skirmish,\u201d Kennedy tweeted, adding \u201cIt is about the political weaponization of the FBI to destroy a candidate and then a sitting President. It\u2019s about a matrix of lies so elaborate as to make a mockery of the democratic ideal of an informed citizenry.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Following <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mtaibbi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@mtaibbi<\/a>\u2019s terrific reporting on the Durham investigation. This is no partisan skirmish. It is about the political weaponization of the FBI to destroy a candidate and then a sitting President. It\u2019s about a matrix of lies so elaborate as to make a mockery of the\u2026<\/p>&mdash; Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobertKennedyJr\/status\/1660633920717611009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 22, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Kennedy also got the knives out for the media for being complicit in perpetuating the Russian collusion nonsense for years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201c<\/strong>Maybe most alarming of all, the Durham investigation reveals the abject complicity of the mainstream press, which has yet to admit they were taken in by the big lie, propagated it, and now continues to permit those lies to stand as truth,\u201d Kennedy stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Maybe most alarming of all, the Durham investigation reveals the abject complicity of the mainstream press, which has yet to admit they were taken in by the big lie, propagated it, and now continues to permit those lies to stand as truth.<\/p>&mdash; Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobertKennedyJr\/status\/1660634159734312962?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 22, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Original Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2023\/05\/23\/rfk-jr-slams-political-weaponization-of-the-fbi-to-destroy-a-sitting-president\/\">https:\/\/summit.news\/2023\/05\/23\/rfk-jr-slams-political-weaponization-of-the-fbi-to-destroy-a-sitting-president\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA matrix of lies so elaborate as to make a mockery of the democratic ideal of an informed citizenry.\u201d Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has charged that a \u201cmatrix of lies\u201d was used by a \u201cweaponised\u201d FBI in an attempt \u201cto destroy a sitting president.\u201d RFK Jr. was responding to journalist Matt Taibbi\u2019s reporting on the Durham report, which effectively exonerated President Trump once and for all from bogus charges of Russian collusion, concluding that the FBI had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3566,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564\/revisions\/3566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}