Channeling Alex Jones

Donald Trump Jr. Scolds Theresa May Over Brexit: ‘Was It All a Ruse?’

The party of lies and disinformation is in the White House and doing its best to shatter the EU, undermine NATO, and earn brownie points redeemable for cash from Vladimir Putin.

Bear in mind the Brexit plebiscite was non-binding and purely consultative.

It was the Tories and pro-Brexit others who have since then at every opportunity lied that it was actually a binding referendum leaving the decision entirely to the voters, the Parliament's remaining role in the matter being only to smooth the path.

But never in my life - I am seventy - has the blog name "Crooks and Liars" seemed so apt.

President Trump has offered the British prime minister advice on Brexit. 

The president’s son said this week that she should have followed it.

Donald Trump Jr. accused “the European elites” of trying to sabotage Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union, in an op-ed  in  The Daily Telegraph on Wednesday. 

He put some of the blame on Prime Minister Theresa May, and declared that “democracy in the U.K. is all but dead.”

“Next Friday, March 29, is supposed to be the British people’s Independence Day,” Mr. Trump wrote. 

“But because the elites control London from Brussels, the will of the people is likely to be ignored.”

During a visit to Britain last summer, President Trump told Mrs. May to “sue the E.U.,” according to her account of the meeting — advice the prime minister dismissed in favor of negotiating.

According to Stephen K. Bannon, the president’s former chief strategist, Mr. Trump told the British leader to “overshoot the target” on her deal, be on “terms agreed within six months” and “use every arrow in your quiver even if you have to do litigation later.”

“She laughed it off,” Mr. Bannon told the British network Sky News on Monday.

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Because she didn’t listen, the younger Mr. Trump wrote, “a process that should have taken only a few short months has become a yearslong stalemate.” 

Such an outcome, he added, was “exactly as the European elites were hoping.”

Plenty of Britons would dispute the claim that anyone is in control in London, where Mrs. May has been tripped up by one Brexit dispute after another. 

The notion that puppet masters in Brussels are pulling the strings might come as a surprise to European officials who have been exasperated by Britain’s paralysis.

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Mr. Trump described both Britain’s vote to withdraw and his father’s election as victories over establishments that have since tried to “overturn their mandates.”

“What we’re seeing now in Washington, London and Brussels is the desperate, last-gasp attempt by those previously in power to cling on to what was once theirs in the face of an overwhelming mandate for change,” he asserted.

He thinks you don't remember that the voters chose Hillary, a choice the Electors overruled in favor of the mad orange suffering mad cow now in the White House.

The Times helpfully reminds its readers, who probably need no reminding.

[T]he senior Mr. Trump won the presidency, despite losing the popular vote to Hillary Clinton, 45.9 percent to 48 percent.