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Republican response to the FBI’s raid on former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort was swift, most notably on Fox Information. And one factor that struck Fever Desires podcast host Will Sommer “was what number of guys who had been additionally beneath investigation for Jan. 6-related issues” had been additionally visitors on Fox Information decrying the transfer by the FBI.
On the newest episode of the podcast, Sommer and visitor host Anthony Fisher, senior opinion editor at The Each day Beast, talk about the proper’s response to the FBI raid and its total message that the search was fully unfair and unconstitutional.
“That they had Steve Bannon on who stated, ‘Hey, go away Trump alone,’” Sommer says. “And so they had Jeffrey Clark, the previous Justice Division official who memorably acquired frisked by the FBI in a strip mall parking zone just a few weeks again.
“The phrase that they stored coming again to was ‘banana republic’—this concept that Biden has the FBI form of roving the land selecting up MAGA supporters.”
Sommer predicts the subsequent time Republicans have management of the federal government, “the FBI and the Justice Division are going to be no extra,” as a substitute reconstituted beneath a unique identify.
Fisher agrees, warning, “I don’t suppose it may be overstated how harmful this might get.”
“It’s terrifying,” he says.
“It jogs my memory of how Trump, main as much as the 2020 election, mainly stated, ‘I’m listening to issues about election fraud’ and informed us the entire time what he was going to do, after which did it. And what occurred was horrible.”
Additionally on the podcast, Sommer and Fisher talk about creator James Lindsay, “one of many biggest right-wingers on the market, one of many biggest, biggest gamers, the king of ideas himself.”
Late final week, Twitter completely banned Lindsay, often called “Conceptual James,” after he used the time period “baby sexualization specialist” throughout an change with a transgender legal professional, in an try and sidestep the social media platform’s ban on the usage of the phrase “groomer.” He has repeatedly made transphobic feedback, however for Twitter, his newest transfer was his final.
“He’s only a straight-up posting bully who has more and more proven his fascistic tendencies however is a really influential individual on the anti-woke proper and heart who has been instrumental in drumming up each the crucial race principle, ethical panic, and the quote unquote groomer ethical panic,” Fisher explains.
Elsewhere within the episode, Jessica Pishko, creator of the e book The Highest Regulation within the Land and an knowledgeable on county sheriffs, discusses what makes the place of sheriff so distinctive to corruption and abuse.
“One of many issues to know about sheriffs is that they've advanced right into a place that’s half politician and half police,” Pishko explains.
“What tends to occur is when a scandal [involving a sheriff] does come to mild and other people attempt to take motion, the legal guidelines are so very outdated that they’re not fairly positive what they’re alleged to do. They form of get pleasure from this form of quasi-outlaw standing.”
Within the podcast’s “Contemporary Hell” phase, the hosts talk about James O’Keefe, “the prankster prince of the best” and his group, Challenge Veritas. The conservative media outlet is going through two lawsuits after worker Antonietta Zappier accused Veritas leaders of fostering a “sexually hostile work surroundings.”
“This is a bit more controversy than he [James] and I anticipated him to become involved in,” Sommer says.
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