My Facebook feed is filled with anti-Trump folks repeatedly citing Louise Mensch, Claude Taylor and the Palmer Report as if they had any credibility at all. They don’t and you really should stop citing them. Zach Beauchamp at Vox gives lots of examples of their absurd claims, but let’s go with just a couple examples.





Mensch seems to think the Russians are behind absolutely everything:

Another post, allegedly based on “sources with links to the intelligence community,” claimed that Trump, Mike Pence, and Paul Ryan were all going to be arrested on racketeering charges against “the Republican party” owing to collaboration with Russia. “Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah, who was the ‘Designated Survivor’ at the inauguration of Donald Trump (yes, really) is likely to become President,” Mensch writes. She’s also suggested that Anthony Weiner was brought down as part of a Russian plot to put the Clinton emails back in the news…

Oh, and the Ferguson riots too, Putin was behind them:

That's because you, Russia, funded riots in Ferguson. See 0 hour I have your connections to Trump archived via Schiller and Scavino https://t.co/aTUDlCGkYi — Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) April 9, 2017

That’s every bit as idiotic as the right claiming that George Soros was behind all the protests (few of which were riots, for crying out loud; most protesters were very well behaved). And here’s their latest claim, which should provoke nothing but laughter and derision:

Multiple sources close to the intelligence, justice and law enforcement communities say that the House Judiciary Committee is considering Articles of Impeachment against the President of the United States. Sources further say that the Supreme Court notified Mr. Trump that the formal process of a case of impeachment against him was begun, before he departed the country on Air Force One. The notification was given, as part of the formal process of the matter, in order that Mr. Trump knew he was not able to use his powers of pardon against other suspects in Trump-Russia cases. Sources have confirmed that the Marshal of the Supreme Court spoke to Mr. Trump.

Oh for crying out loud, the Supreme Court does not notify a president that he’s being impeached. There is no impeachment without the House voting articles of impeachment and they haven’t even considered such a thing, nor is there a motion or a proposal to do so that is likely to be voted on any time soon. Nor is there a shred of evidence that a “sealed indictment” has been filed against Trump by the DOJ, or that the Trump presidency “ended May 9th” and now Orrin Hatch is getting security briefings because Trump, Pence and Ryan are all going to be indicted for rackateering.

This is bovine excrement. And that is all it is. And if you are quoting it and taking it seriously, you are quoting the liberal equivalent of Alex Jones and Roger Stone.