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Sohn: Marsha Blackburn learned from Donald Trump how to ‘create narrative’

Staff file photo by C.B. Schmelter / Sen. Marsha Blackburn speaks during a Hamilton County Republican Party annual Lincoln Day Dinner at the Westin Hotel in 2019.
Staff file photo by C.B. Schmelter / Sen. Marsha Blackburn speaks during a Hamilton County Republican Party annual Lincoln Day Dinner at the Westin Hotel in 2019. Staff file photo by C.B. Schmelter / Sen. Marsha Blackburn speaks during a Hamilton County Republican Party annual Lincoln Day Dinner at the Westin Hotel in 2019.

The idea that Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn is accusing anyone of being “in cahoots” with anyone or “trying to create” a narrative by “cherry-picking information” is jaw-droppingly, knee-slapping funny.

Blackburn increasingly seems to be fashioning herself after her idol, the former president who practically invented cahoots and especially excelled at narrative creation with cherry-picked information. He honed it to an art. Clearly Marsha took copious notes.

There she was Thursday at a news conference calling for Dr. Anthony Fauci to step aside from his role as the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease and “make himself available to Congress to find out exactly how he was in cahoots with [Facebook founder] Mark Zuckerberg and ‘Big Tech.'”

Congress should investigate, she said.

This followed her Twitter post two days before of a 50-second video titled “Here are the facts on Fauci that big tech doesn’t want you to know.”