Paging Frank Luntz
by Tom Sullivan
Somebody over there in Trumpland has stopped listening to their messaging guy:
Last week, NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch turned Capone into a verb to argue Trump is the victim of unfair prosecution.
“They’re trying to Al Capone the president,” she said on her NRATV show. “I mean, you remember. Capone didn’t go down for murder. Elliot Ness didn’t put him in for murder. He went in for tax fraud. Prosecutors didn’t care how he went down as long as he went down. The same goes for Democrats. Whatever avenue is needed to bring down the president, they’ll take it.”
Earlier this month, conservative radio host Mark Levin’s reported that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s impaneling of a grand jury for the Russia investigation is essentially a “coup” against the president. Conservative blog Right Wing News picked up Levin‘s comments, adding, “They are looking to catch these people in a process crime… Think Al Capone and the IRS. It’s a trap meant to take down the Trump Presidency.”
The conservative logic is clear: Trump is being slowly railroaded by various legal investigations—just like Al Capone.
Keep it up, kids.
If I may, check out this thread from Will Bunch on why we do what we do.
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