At a speech in West Palm Beach, FL, Donald Trump Jr. told conservative students from Turning Points USA (a Koch Brothers PAC) that there are "people at the highest levels of government that don't want to let Americans be American."
Despite delivering what amounted to a very vague "rigged" statement, Trump Jr. is echoing the sentiments of many conservatives talking heads who, in the age of the Mueller investigation, have brought suspect conspiracy into the mainstream conversation.
Take Kevin Jackson for example. In this clip, the Fox News contributor says that there are deep state operatives who have or are possibly plotting to assassinate President Trump; who have worked with the Clintons; or generally do not want to see Donald Trump as president. Throwing those claims about the FBI together under the guise of "we don't know what it was" is extremely dangerous and functions as subterfuge to obscure what we do and do not know about the Mueller investigation and its findings.
All this is to say, the Mueller investigation and Russia are meant to confuse us. It behooves the GOP that people like Don Jr. and Kevin Jackson go out into the world and talk about the devious plots of rogue FBI agents, the Clintons, and whoever else is not firmly on the side of Trump and his administration. The best thing we can do is to remain engaged and recognize when someone is trying to confuse us because it usually means they have something they don't want us to see.
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