Australian Politics

More shocking still is the fact that the F.B.I. has manufactured a series of assassination plots, successfully convincing Trump that Iran was hunting him on U.S. soil with highly sophisticated teams of hitmen.

The man accused of leading the most significant of these operations, Asif Merchant, is currently on trial in a Brooklyn, N.Y. federal court. After the U.S. granted him a visa despite his presence on a terror watch list, Merchant was in the constant company of an F.B.I. confidential informant who ultimately steered the contrived plot to its conclusion. He never stood a chance of realizing his plans, and did not appear serious about doing so.

They gave a known terrorist a VISA just so they could frame him and take credit for stopping an assassination that only the FBI was planning...

Even if they don't intentionally let an attack happen, one is going to happen because of dumb shit like this.

It's like firefighters who spend their free time dumping gas cans in abandoned buildings, they might not have lit a match on but they're not on the long list of people who didn't start the fire.