Former FBI agent warns of lingering dangers from Trump's election schemes
Source: Alternet.org · Bias: Left
Summary
Former FBI agent Michael Feinberg told MS NOW anchor Nicole Wallace the difficulty President Donald Trump has in outright overthrowing state elections in November is no reason to dismiss the possibly of him using the federal government to tamper his way into a victory for himself or his political party.“I think people are giving themselves a false sense of comfort by saying it would be too difficult for him to steal the election. ‘You would have to do a lot in a lot of states, in a lot of cities, and it's just too complicated.’ He doesn't need to steal it. He needs to throw it into confusion,” said Feinberg, a former FBI Assistant Special Agent in a fellow of the “Lawfare” blog.“If you throw it into confusion and you are the federal government and you control law enforcement, you control intelligence, you have a bully pulpit unlike no other — that is enough to undermine the process,” continued Feinberg. “And if he has a director of national intelligence like Tulsi Gabbard, who's grasp on reality, I will just say is not particularly firm, she would be willing to say things that in the intelligence community, we would say have very low confidence [to make that happen.]”Feinberg cited Gabbard’s willingness to claim that China interfered with the 2020 election that Trump lost without evidence, without any evidence whatsoever.“I worked Chinese intelligence my entire career. There is no validity to that theory whatsoever. And nobody who has ever examined the Chinese intelligence services or the government of China would argue otherwise,” Feinberg told Wallace. “But [Trump] now has a national security council and intelligence community, and a law enforcement apparatus that is willing to say the most unhinged, untethered things possible if it will help him throw the election into turmoil.”That statement prompted Wallace to ask how Trump’s base “swallowed” the impossible idea that only the elections of Barack Obama and Joe Biden were the result of tampering while Trump’s was not.“Because none of this is actually about factual assertions or about the truth on the ground,” Feinberg answered. “This is not a political movement. It is a movement based on personality. It is almost a quasi-religious dedication to a public figure in a way that America, thankfully, for the past 250 years, has been immune to.”“But we're seeing whatever inoculation we once had break down at an alarming rate,” Feinberg added. - YouTube youtu.be
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