After Stanford professor Pamela Karlan made an awkward pun yesterday reflecting on autocrat Donald "Impeachable Me" Trump's monarchist tendancies in naming his son Barron, the Rethugs ginned up their faux outrage machine, and quadrupled down on weaponizing the pun as an "attack" on Trump's son. It was nonsense, of course, and a feeble attempt to distract from the impeachment hearings, which some in the Beltway media bought.
Unreal. The wife of the man who separates hundreds of children from their families, AND INCARCERATES THEM INDEFINITELY, has the audacity to whine & play the victim when their rich, sheltered child’s name is mentioned?! STOP. Put this crap in your gold toilets where it belongs. https://t.co/mnTZJNjdV5— Ken Olin (@kenolin1) December 5, 2019
For those who missed the GOP outrage today: Barron Trump was ripped from his mother’s grasp and placed into detention in another state and might now be put up for adoption. Oh. Wait. No. That’s thousands of other children.— SIVA VAIDHYANATHAN🗽🤘🏽 (@sivavaid) December 4, 2019
Anyone still covering the he who must not be named fake outrage should really be noting how quickly the administration embellished the professor’s remark into an “attack.”— Schooley (@Rschooley) December 5, 2019
Any member of the media who treats this utterly fabricated, faux outrage with one ounce of seriousness should be embarrassed. The comment was not offensive. They are not actually offended. Nice try. Let's move on. https://t.co/kY7LUnc1L9— Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) December 5, 2019
Nobody used Barron "to justify impeachment," as Pence claimed. Nobody "mock[ed]"him as @kayleighmcenany dishonestly asserted. Those things didn't happen. Indeed, the fact that these statements are false points to their insincerity, which would otherwise be hard to prove.— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) December 5, 2019
Melania is a birther https://t.co/oz6EddBd7f— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) December 5, 2019
(photo: "Melanie" wearing her signature "I Really Don't Care Do You?" coat as she travels to the child internment camps along the southern border)
