A far-right "journalist" by the name of Jack Posobiec, a crackpot who reports for Trump's other favorite network. One America News, has managed to worm his way into the internet's pseudoconservative psyche by simply deploying one basic weapon: the tweet.
Knowing nothing about this 15-minute-of-fame clown except that his name is on the NY Times' front page this morning, I had to resort to Wikipedia for information on his professional credentials. The site quotes a Hill editor: Posobiec "make[s] stuff up, relentlessly … there's no one [else] at that level."
Naturally, then, Posobiec is a man whom Donald Trump's Friends & Family mob would enjoy retweeting, if, that is, Posobiec's tweet — rather, a retweet itself — was sufficiently demented. It was.
The Times reports that he "had retweeted a lengthy thread by a Florida man — a fan of QAnon, a fringe conspiracy about the 'deep state' — claiming to have witnessed Colonel [Alexander] Vindman 'bash America' in conversation with Russian officers during a joint military exercise in Germany in 2013."
You know Col. Vindman. To your regret, I'm sure, you also know Donald Trump Jr., who retweeted Posobiec's mental refuse: "Anyone who’s been watching for the past three years is not at all surprised that this would be [the impeachment inquiry panel's] 'star witness.'"
Oh, Donnie, you poor thing, you poor, witless thing. In your Trumpy-scion message, there's a touch of enormously unintended humor. It was impressive, though unsurprising, as you rightly note, that Chairman Adam Schiff's keenly professional inquiry would call a war-bemedaled colonel as just one star witness.
It was equally impressive, as it were, that Trump Inc., in refutation, would cite a (literally) brain-damaged, QAnon-following, deep-state believing, retired Army officer who was unaware that fluent-in-Russian Col. Vindman would have spoken to Russians in Russian — thus he would not have understood a word of what Vindman was saying.
So what's the point — other than the pedestrian, that Donnie and Dad are idiots? Well, speaking of Russians, they "get" the point: "They say Trump is making Russia great. That’s basically accurate," said Russian television celebrity Karen Shakhnazarov to the Daily Beast. "The chaos brought by Trump into the American system of government is weakening the United States. America is getting weaker and now Russia is taking its place…. And that’s why we love him…. The more problems they have, the better it is for us."