The FBI appears to be trolling Donald Trump about treason on Twitter
Donald Trump has spent an extraordinary amount of time demonizing, sabotaging, and flat out lying about the FBI since he’s taken office. The reason is obvious enough: the FBI is investigating Trump’s numerous crimes, including his campaign plot with Russia to alter the outcome of the election. While Trump was overseas for a summit with Putin which many have categorized as treasonous, the Feds arrested a Russian political operative linked to his campaign. Now the FBI appears to be outright trolling Trump about treason on Twitter.
The official verified @FBI account on Twitter periodically makes posts about notable criminal cases from the past. Yesterday the FBI posted a multi-part Twitter thread which focused on both Russia and espionage. First came this tweet: “In 1950 British agents arrested Soviet spy Klaus Fuchs after FBI agents helped make counterintelligence use of telegrams decrypted & decoded by Army experts. The work, later code named Venona, was key to advancing FBI counterintelligence program.” On its own, we’d have written off this tweet as mere happenstance. But thenf came the next one.
As part of the same thread, the FBI account then posted this: “In 1951, 4 subjects – Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, David Greenglass and Morton Sobell – were each convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage in what was dubbed at the time as the ‘Trial of the Century.”” That’s right, the FBI is playing up historical instances of Russian spies getting busted, and historical instances of Americans being convicted on espionage charges. This came after the Feds arrested Maria Butina on charges of acting as an agent of Russia, and after Trump’s treasonous press conference with Vladimir Putin.
So is the FBI really trolling Donald Trump with these tweets? If this is a mere coincidence, it sure isn’t being interpreted as one, as most of the replies are based on the presumption that this was done on purpose. If the FBI is trying to send a message to Trump, perhaps he should be most spooked by the one other tweet in the three-part thread; it’s about the Ten Most Wanted list.
