Just when you think liberals in the media couldn’t reach any new levels of crazy, they completely shatter their own glass ceiling. In one of the most incredible segments of cable television you’ll ever see, MSNBC contributor Frank Figliuzzi claimed that President Trump ordering flags be lowered to half-mast in the wake of last weekend’s mass shootings is a neo-Nazi dog whistle. No, really.

Figliuzzi, a former FBI assistant director for counterintelligence, floated the conspiracy theory during MSNBC’s 11th Hour With Brian Williams on Monday night. He demonstrated the media’s unhinged nature in the Trump era by claiming that Trump lowering the flags until August 8th, or “8/8,” was an appeal to neo-Nazis and Adolf Hitler supporters:

And I'll give you an example of that. We have to understand the adversary and the threat we’re dealing with. And if we don't understand how they think, we’ll never understand how to counter them. So, it’s little things and language and messaging that matters. The President said that we will fly our flags at half-mast until August 8th. That's 8/8. Now, I'm not going to imply that he did this deliberately but I am using it as an example of the ignorance of the adversary that’s being demonstrated by the White House. The numbers “88” are very significant in neo-Nazi and white supremacy movement. Why? Because the letter “H” is the eighth letter of the alphabet and, to them, the numbers “88” together stand for “Heil Hitler.” So, we’re going to be raising the flag back up at dusk on 8/8. No one is thinking about this. No one is giving him the advice or he's rejecting the advice. So understand your adversary to counter the adversary.

Figliuzzi, who has a history of wacky claims, fully shows the pretzels Democrats and their allies in the media twist themselves into to claim that President Trump’s rhetoric is inspiring white supremacist terrorism, such as the El Paso shooter. In doing so, however, they have completely ignored the Dayton shooter’s leftist politics, and constantly divide and gaslight Americans by suggesting the rhetoric of politicians inspires violence.



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