One day after Donald Trump sided with Vladimir Putin regarding Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, the official president of Treason™ tried to backtrack, saying he had "full faith in our intelligence agencies."
Then all the lights in the room went out!
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"Whoops, they just turned out the lights," Trump said. "That must be the intelligence agents."
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It's unclear what caused the momentary blackout, (Someone backing into the light switch? A brief power outage due the rain in D.C. today? A patriotic ghost?). But it was certainly some on-the-nose pathetic fallacy. One of those scenarios that, if you pitched it for a movie scene, you'd probably be asked to "tone it down a little."
UPDATE: July 17, 2018, 4 p.m. PDT Apparently, it was Chief of Staff John Kelly, according to Washington Post photographer Jabin Botsford.
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Friends, you can't make this stuff up. We wish we could, though, because we wish it wasn't real. Bye!
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