'Judicial Watch' Weirdo Tom Fitton Starts Dumb Slap Fight With FBI Weirdo Kash Patel, Cries

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It's another MAGA CIVIL WAR!!!

Break out your recordings of “Ashokan Farewell,” the poignant theme from that Ken Burns documentary, because there’s a new MAGA Civil War brewing between idiot FBI Director Kash Patel and idiot Trump “legal advisor” Tom Fitton (Archive link; may not work for everyone). Fitton is no more a lawyer than Patel is a cop, but he’s a longtime rightwing asshole beloved by Donald Trump, and heads the vexatious litigation factory “Judicial Watch.”

The latest MAGA civil war, or feud, or perhaps squirmish, involves something Fitton and his legal trolls thought they’d found in a 48-page cache of heavily redacted Justice Department documents about the 2024 assassination attempt on Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. The documents, which are redacted to the point of near-incoherence, don’t contain any smoking guns (especially not any from a second gunman), but since Judicial Watch went to the trouble of filing a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, the group nonetheless trumpeted the few barrel-bottom scrapings they found in a June 5 “Trump Assassination Attempt Update!”

That initial press release claimed that the files “revealed” that Thomas Crooks, the guy who was shot to death after nicking Trump’s ear and killing a fireman in the crowd, had supposedly “exchanged emails” with a deputy in the Butler County Sheriff’s Department at some point prior to the assassination attempt, and wouldn’t that be a huge story if true? Why was Crooks talking to law enforcement before the attempt on Trump’s life, why did the deputy write back to the would-be assassin, what did they talk about, and why has this information been suppressed until Judicial Watch “forced” the DOJ to admit it? WHY???

Simply put, no, Crooks didn’t email anyone in the Butler County Sheriff’s office. Fitton and his legal kleagles just saw some heavily redacted documents, played Mad Libs with what was missing, and guessed wrong. That said, the FBI’s redactions to the documents were so overzealous that it’s not at all surprising that Fitton & his Fool Squad came to the wrong conclusion.

Also, no Libs were actually Mad.

https://www.wonkette.com/p/judicial-watch-weirdo-tom-fitton