Sarah Sanders, Trump himself, Manafort, Stone, Giuliani, Hannity, Limbaugh - all these people and an entire network of sources of fake news and conspiracy theories look more and more like Baghdad Bob announcing massive Iraqi victories and crushing losses of the invading Americans to TV newsies in the last days of Saddam's regime.
Newsies were actually laughing at him during his press conferences.
Of course, the Trump folks were laughable from the beginning, from the days of their insisting his inauguration crowds were the biggest ever, and much bigger than Obama's.
It's just that newsies were so unused to press conferences in the White House being as absurd as those of Baghdad Bob that they reacted with shock and dismay rather than unrestrained mockery and laughter.
About Bob:
His pronouncements [during the Iraq War] included claims that American soldiers were committing suicide "by the hundreds" outside the city, and denial that there were any American tanks in Baghdad, when in fact they were only several hundred meters away from the press conference where he was speaking and the combat sounds of the nearing American troops could already be heard in the background of the broadcast.
On another occasion he spoke of the disastrous outcomes of previous foreign attempts to invade Iraq, citing an unspecified Western history book and inviting the journalists present to come to his home to read it.
His last public appearance as Information Minister was on 8 April 2003, when he said that the Americans "are going to surrender or be burned in their tanks. They will surrender, it is they who will surrender".
When asked where he had got his information he replied, "authentic sources—many authentic sources".
He pointed out that he "was a professional, doing his job".
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