This is simply…. mind numbing.

Paul starts by stipulating that Tangerine is an inveterate liar. He openly agrees that there are lots and lots of verifiably false statements, out of Trump’s mouth on a daily basis.

But then — defying every ACTUAL rule of evidence, federal and state, he goes on to say we cannot take that — as evidence(!) — of general untruthfulness.

No, we must accord proper countervailing weight to the notion that lots of gullible (or malign) loons wholeheartedly believe his lies. So, according to Mirengoff, we must treat them as at least partially worthy of belief… because “some people” believe them.

Tautology — meet… tautology. [A classical logical error, that — well described in the literature, stretching back to about the sixth century BCE, without interruption — and most cogently explained by Immanuel Kant, by about 1740. Where was I? Oh. Right.]

Paul absolutely knows that The WaPo is correct to say there is “no evidence” for almost all Tangerine’s cray-cray claims. [And we are watching his stake in “Truth Social” go down the tubes, for it — day by day, as he offers ever wilder, and newer nonsense theories purportedly in support, from his own keyboard — or Devin Nunes’s.]

But Paul also knows that while Trump had Bill Barr run the DoJ as a political weapon, Mr. Biden has told Merrick Garland that he is to act independently (as had been 200 years of history’s teachings) from the White House. And Mr. Garland has.

It just turns out that Trump has committed lots of felonies. And Mr. Garland is just doing his job. In six short years, Mirengoff forgot all he ever knew — that even Dick Cheney was much for politicizing the DoJ. No — not since Nixon had we seen such banana republic stuff.

Stuff Trump took to a whole new level 2018 to 2021. [In that sense, Paul is correct, when he observes that Trump has — through debauchery — changed for many in the GOP what their relationship is to “objective” truths, altogether. And that’s not a good thing.]

So again, Paul ASSUMES — despite no evidence to support his notion… as a bare naked assumption — that Mr. Biden is pressing his thumb on the scales of justice, as to prosecuting Tangerine’s open and notorious crime spree (still ongoing, as securities fraud at stock symbol “DJT”).

That is… a preposterously bad form of argument / persuasion, Paul. Take a seat.