1,800 Missing and Defending Alex Jones

Two separate bad news stories from the Trump regime today — neither one about acetaminophen/autism or his deranged speech at the UN.

First: As the Everglades concentration camp has been taken off-line because of a court order, 1,800 of its former detainees are missing.

Where are they? Have they been flown out of the country to some of the cruel countries that say they will accept deportees? Are they hidden away in other U.S. facilities? Are they dead and buried in unmarked graves?

As Dean Baker pointed out on BlueSky,

Losing track of 1,800 people is kind of a big deal. That's more people than Hamas killed on October 7th. We know Noem and her team are pretty damn incompetent, but this is hard to believe.

More people than Hamas killed on October 7th. Let that sink in.

The other story is about Ed Martin, the lawyer for January 6 insurrectionists who Trump tried to make U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C. When that appointment couldn't get approved, Martin was put in charge of a Department of "Justice" working group looking into past weaponization of government. (I know, I know. That in itself is enough to make you want to stick your head in an oven. It's not current weaponization of government, oh no, of course not! Only weaponization by Democrats.)

Anyway, today it came out that Martin sent a letter to an FBI agent who testified during the Alex Jones defamation trial brought by Sandy Hook parents. The agent had affirmed that he saw the dead children after the Sandy Hook shooting. 

Martin's letter asked if the agent had a financial incentive to testify to that effect.

You read that right. The DOJ is investigating whether an FBI agent is part of the Sandy Hook truther conspiracy against Alex Jones. That conspiracy posits that there were no children killed at Sandy Hook, that it was a "false flag" for ... whatever twisted purpose they could come up with.

As I wrote back in 2017 (and that post links to the New Yorker story that outlines the whole conspiracy theory), it's one of the most depressing things I'd ever read up to that point.

So that's two more pieces of the Trump regime obscenity that probably won't make major news, given everything else that's going on. 1,800 missing people! And a weaponizer, in charge of making up things to weaponize against Trump's enemies.

Another day in Trump's America.