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Routh’s motive might be hiding in plain sight. Take out Trump because Trump might stop the United States from the inevitable hot war with Russia. Routh, like all Democrats and establishment Republicans, wants war with Russia. They want to take out Putin like they want to take out Trump. They see them as one and the same.

Why isn’t this the moment we put it all together, all of the last ten years? The framing of the Trump campaign by the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton that he was in the pocket of Putin. The obsession with Trump and Russia by Adam Schiff, not to mention others, who sold that lie to Americans every day Trump was in office.

But no one sold it harder than Rachel Maddow. She was the one with all of the secrets, the one we couldn’t stop watching. She was on the trail to out Trump and bring him down. We believed that. She seemed to believe it too.

So what I’m wondering in the wake of the second Trump assassination attempt is what Rachel Maddow is thinking right about now. Did she think for one second that it might have been dangerous to wage a witch hunt campaign that Trump was a Russian asset?

A scroll of Rachel Maddow videos on YouTube tells the tale. There is no other voice in cable news more hysteria-inducing than hers. Because her sincerity is hard to dismiss, she never sounds like she’s lying or that she would be doing all of this just for money.

And yet, how can we not see the actions of Ryan Routh somehow inspired by her insistence on Trump’s involvement with Putin’s Russia or that he is a dangerous dictator who must be stopped by any means necessary?

Yawn. "Hot war" with who? The assholes who can't make any meaningful progress against much smaller and numerically weaker opponent FOR FUCKING YEARS and now LOSING their own TERRITORY? Bitch, please!