In a story released today by Reason, along with an audio recording of the call, it is revealed that long time fringe lunatics Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman engaged in a simple plot. They used money, bribery, pressure, and dishonesty to encourage a woman to make claims of sexual harassment in order to bring someone down. In this case, however, thanks to a strike of conscience, the woman pressured could not go along and decided to out the entire scheme.
The scheme was simple, and long in the works: continue to divide others by just slinging mud. True or not, honest or not, truth or a lie, it simply did not matter. They could chum the water full and if only a few people believed, just enough, they could continue to chip away at any narrative against Trump, and any narrative in favor of a Democratic solution. Let’s be honest, this isn’t about fighting with different ideas. This is about a group of rogue operatives acting as terrorists to the basic underpinning of civil society: the truth.
The Reason article lays out what happened:
"Let me tell you something, Diana," says Burkman. "This guy shut the country down. He put 40 million people out of work. In a situation like that, you have to make up whatever you have to make up to stop that train and that's the way life works, OK? That's the way it goes."
Andrade counters that he and Wohl are not taking COVID-19 seriously. "It's not just any virus. I mean, it's a huge deal….I think you guys think it's something made up, and it's not."
"Mother Nature has to clean the barn every so often," Burkman counters. "How real is it? Who knows? So what if 1 percent of the population goes? So what if you lose 400,000 people? Two hundred thousand were elderly, the other 200,000 are the bottom of society. You got to clean out the barn. If it's real, it's a positive thing, for God's sake."
It was in that moment when the woman asked to commit to this farce decided she couldn’t any longer.
Put aside that Wohl and Burkman are seen as cranks. Realize for one second what this symbolizes: the truth simply does not matter at all. While Wohl and Burkman are often thought of as far fringe, are they really that far from the conspiracy floating commander in chief? Or Fox News? Or OANN?
This represents a unique kind of domestic terrorism. A form of terrorism designed with only one goal: to declare that if their goal is at odds with the truth, the truth dies first. Every time.