President Donald Trump's administration announced a new investigation on Monday, which one analyst said should be seen as a "blinking red light" for the MAGA movement.
Last week, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced that it had uncovered evidence that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama conspired to prevent Trump from winning the 2016 election. On Monday, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that the Department of Justice would also be releasing information about former FBI Director James Comey's investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails.
Progressive YouTuber Brian Tyler Cohen responded to the news on his show, "No Lies," calling it "perplexing."
"Trump is reverting to his old strategy of throwing out the most obvious distractions he can find, including and up to Hillary's emails," Cohen said. "He'll threaten football teams, President Obama, and anybody else he can think of so that he can fool the rubes."
"Therein lies the real embarrassment for Trump's voters," Cohen continued. "The people he is trying to fool are not the Democrats. The Democrats understand that the guy is very clearly trying to hide something, and where there's smoke, there's fire. It is the Republicans whom Trump is targeting. Those are the people he believes are dumb enough to fall for this stuff. His own voters!"
Cohen's comments come at a time when Trump is attempting to distance himself from the Epstein saga. However, those efforts appear to be alienating a large swath of his base.
"Those are the people he despises enough to spend all of his time and energy fooling," Cohen said. "The people who should be angriest here are Trump's voters who are being deceived in real time."
