Trump intervening to completely dismantle and prevent any FBI investigation into the matter had a much bigger impact. I expect Democrats to allow the investigation when they get sufficient power.Wrong.Ebola, caravan, race, can Republicans use the same fear twice?
So if they donāt use one of the fears that they used before, whatās the next fear?
Or do they recycle them?
Will the next one be gay people?
Muslims?
Marriage?
Anyone?
Like Ford, the caravan disappeared from the headlines as soon as it ceased to be useful to the democrats.
This fails as a false comparison fallacy.
Sexual assault and the attacks on Ford are a legitimate issue, nothing ācontrivedā by Democrats.
Indeed, the issue of sexual assault and the propensity of conservatives to disbelieve and attack women who make claims of sexual assault remains an issue for Democrats after the election.
Thatās not the case with the āinvading caravan,ā which was a non-issue, nothing but a manufactured ācrisisā ā a lie contrived and propagated by Trump, Republicans, and rightwing media to motivate the conservative base by exploiting their bigotry and unwarranted fear of immigrants.
Wrong. Ford's story fell apart because it was carefully crafted to avoid any specifics that could be proven false and she could not get anyone to verify anything. Thus she ceased to be useful to the democrats and disappeared from the headlines.
Allow or demand their predetermined outcome? The FBI had sworn testimony from the principle characters and the "witnesses" Ford said would corroborate her story. They did not do so.
The bottom line remains, there just wasn't enough to verify, so they did what they could and didn't come up with the result the democrats wanted. She didn't give them an address so they could interview the home owners. She didn't give them a date so they could interview people who were at the pool or the house. She didn't give them the name of anyone who would have driven her to the house and home. There just wasn't anything to go on, by design. They didn't want to give easily debunked details.
And who said Trump dismantled the investigation? Names only please.