{"id":2661436,"date":"2026-09-15T07:48:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T11:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaigndimwitted-trump-opponents-keep-trying-to-gin-up-panic-with-fake-future-events\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T07:52:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T11:52:30","slug":"utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaigndimwitted-trump-opponents-keep-trying-to-gin-up-panic-with-fake-future-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaigndimwitted-trump-opponents-keep-trying-to-gin-up-panic-with-fake-future-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Opponents Try To Gin Up Panic With Fake Future Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Futm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaigndimwitted-trump-opponents-keep-trying-to-gin-up-panic-with-fake-future-events%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2661436&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >article critiques recent media narratives<\/a>, focusing on exaggerated fears about political conspiracies and future events that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-attorneys-move-to-toss-federal-election-case-for-vindictive-prosecution\/\" title=\"Trump&#039;s lawyers seek dismissal of federal election case due to &#039;vindictive&#039; prosecution.\">lack credible evidence<\/a>. It highlights how outlets like The new Republic and others have published alarming predictions about Donald Trump allegedly planning a coup or undermining democracy, based on unsubstantiated claims and assertions rather than solid proof. The author criticizes the tendency of certain media to generate manufactured panic, labeling these stories as part of a pattern of &#8220;casual media psychosis&#8221; that has persisted for over a decade.The piece emphasizes that criticizing public officials, including Trump, is valid, but it condemns the propagation of fake future scenarios intended to stoke hysteria. Ultimately, it urges readers to be skeptical of sensationalized reports and questions the credibility of sources that rely on baseless predictions.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-body body-md bdr-top-black pt-30\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12\">\n<figure class=\"article-thumbnail mb-30 mb-sm-60\">\n<div class=\"article-thumbnail-caption d-flex align-items-center justify-content-md-end label-xs mt-15\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-camera me-10\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Image Credit<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M96UAUJWW3Y\">Turner Classic Movies \/ YouTube<\/a>       <\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-share text-center article-share-simple\">\n<h5 class=\"label-sm mb-10\">Share<\/h5>\n<ul class=\"article-share-list list-unstyled m-0 p-0\">\n<li class=\"article-share-facebook m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/09\/15\/dimwitted-trump-opponents-keep-trying-to-gin-up-panic-with-fake-future-events\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-facebook\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Facebook<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-twitter m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Dimwitted Trump Opponents Keep Trying To Gin Up Panic With Fake Future Events&#038;url=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/09\/15\/dimwitted-trump-opponents-keep-trying-to-gin-up-panic-with-fake-future-events\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-twitter\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Twitter<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-truth-social m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/share?title=Dimwitted Trump Opponents Keep Trying To Gin Up Panic With Fake Future Events&#038;url=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/09\/15\/dimwitted-trump-opponents-keep-trying-to-gin-up-panic-with-fake-future-events\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" fill=\"currentColor\" style=\"width:36px;height:auto;\" viewbox=\"0 0 92 93\"><path d=\"M69.444 55.716H56.772v10.37h12.672zM64.487 37.795V27.32H38.666v38.664h13.18v-28.19zM21.05 27.321h12.653v10.471H21.051z\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/><\/svg>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Truth Social<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-link m-0\">       <button data-clipboard-text=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/09\/15\/dimwitted-trump-opponents-keep-trying-to-gin-up-panic-with-fake-future-events\/\" data-tooltip-content=\"Copied!\" class=\"clip tooltip\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-link-variant\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Copy Article Link<\/span>       <\/button>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-email m-0\">       <a href=\"mailto:?subject=Dimwitted Trump Opponents Keep Trying To Gin Up Panic With Fake Future Events&#038;body=We&#039;ve now lived through a full decade of this casual media psychosis.%20https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/09\/15\/dimwitted-trump-opponents-keep-trying-to-gin-up-panic-with-fake-future-events\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-email\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article via Email<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-email m-0\"><span class=\"printfriendly pf-button  pf-alignleft\">                     <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\" rel=\"nofollow\" onclick=\"window.print(); pfTrackEvent(&#039;Dimwitted Trump Opponents Keep Trying To Gin Up Panic With Fake Future Events&#039;); return false;\" title=\"Printer Friendly, PDF &#038; Email\">                     <span id=\"printfriendly-text2\" class=\"pf-button-text\"><i class=\"mdi mdi-printer\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span>                     <\/a>                 <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<div class=\"pf-content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s all so tiresome.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The formerly adequate New Republic reported absolutely TERRIFYING news late last week about \u2026 things they completely made up that are for sure going to happen in their make-believe future. In an <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/215198\/2027-new-congress-final-battle-american-democracy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">essay<\/a> written by the now-obviously-insane former federal judge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fjc.gov\/history\/judges\/luttig-j-michael\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Michael Luttig<\/a>, the magazine warned that Donald Trump is about to launch a huge coup d\u2019\u00e9tat in which he\u2019s not going to allow Democrats to hold seats in Congress anymore. Here\u2019s the headline, framed as a description of \u201cthe coming crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1798993868\" class=\"d-flex justify-content-center fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2 fdrlst__b89e9-entity-placement\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1463670073398-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters body-xs m-0 text-start\">\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-4\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-8\">\n<div class=\"article-thumbnail-caption d-flex align-items-center justify-content-md-end label-xs mt-15\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-camera me-10\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Image Credit<\/span>Screenshot       <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">COMES NOW THE FINAL BATTLE. It sounds like a lazy Star Wars spinoff. See, what Luttig knows is about to happen in the future is that Republicans in the House are going to reject the results of the upcoming election and only seat their fellow MAGA TERRORISTS: \u201cHouse Republicans are now poised to claim that the midterm elections were stolen from them when they meet on January 3 to decide which members-elect will be seated in the 120th Congress.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Luttig explains the fake future steps: First Speaker Mike Johnson will fire the House clerk and replace him with a slavish MAGA puppet, and then \u201csometime before the 120th Congress has been gaveled into session, the loyal temporary clerk refuses to list Democrat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-prevail-in-new-mexico-special-election\/\" title=\"Democrats Prevail In New Mexico Special Election\">representatives-elect<\/a> on the clerk\u2019s roll of representatives-elect that determines who may participate in organizing the new Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the whole thing, if you hate yourself and want to punish your soul. <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/215198\/2027-new-congress-final-battle-american-democracy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Here\u2019s the link again<\/a>. See if you can find the part where Luttig identifies his evidence and his sources, because I sure couldn\u2019t. He just typed up a description of future events, on the basis of because-I-said-so, and then it was <em>published<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019ve now lived through a full decade of this casual media psychosis. This fake story was reported <em>everywhere<\/em> after the 2016 election, but the Huffington Post managed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/women-getting-iuds-trump_n_58238a74e4b0aac62488f005\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bump up the hysteria<\/a> by several notches:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters body-xs m-0 text-start\">\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-4\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-8\">\n<div class=\"article-thumbnail-caption d-flex align-items-center justify-content-md-end label-xs mt-15\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-camera me-10\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Image Credit<\/span>Screenshot       <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAnd so it begins.\u201d Ten years later, do you see how no one is ever allowed to have birth control anymore? KNEEL BEFORE TRUMP, HANDMAIDS!<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Luttig\u2019s psychotic hallucination isn\u2019t even the first time a witless leftist thumbsucking publication has warned that we\u2019re about to have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2018\/02\/23\/timothy-snyder-trump-may-use-russian-interference-as-a-pretext-for-canceling-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the last election<\/a> Trump will ever allow us to have, and 2026 is at least our second <em>final <\/em>midterms.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters body-xs m-0 text-start\">\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-4\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-8\">\n<div class=\"article-thumbnail-caption d-flex align-items-center justify-content-md-end label-xs mt-15\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-camera me-10\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Image Credit<\/span>Screenshot       <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Everyone who holds elected office is fair game for criticism, and it\u2019s just fine to criticize Donald Trump. But what does it mean that these drooling idiots can\u2019t criticize him without manufacturing fake future events?<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">      Chris Bray is a senior correspondent at The Federalist and a former infantry sergeant in the U.S. Army. He has a history PhD from the University of California Los Angeles, not that it did him any good. He also posts on Substack, at &#8220;Tell Me How This Ends,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/chrisbray.substack.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-author mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-30 bdr-top-bold-black\">\n<div class=\"row g-0 align-items-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-6\">\n<div class=\"article-author-profile d-flex align-items-center justify-content-center justify-content-md-start\">\n<div class=\"article-author-details\">\n<div class=\"label-md\">Chris Bray<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-6 d-flex justify-content-center justify-content-md-end mt-15 mt-md-0\">        <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/author\/chrisbray\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">More Articles<\/a>     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-tags no-print bdr-top-black mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-15 pt-md-45\">\n<ul class=\"list-unstyled d-flex flex-wrap align-items-center mb-0 mx-n10 p-0\">\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/actual-conspiracy-theories\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">actual conspiracy theories<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/huffington-post\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Huffington Post<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/manufactured-panic\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">manufactured panic<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/michael-luttig\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Michael Luttig<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/new-republic\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">New Republic<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/psychosis\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">psychosis<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/salon\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Salon<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/tds\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">TDS<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/timothy-snyder\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Timothy Snyder<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/trump-derangement-syndrome\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Trump Derangement Syndrome<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fake fears about Trump coup spread again<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":2661437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/howard-beale-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[3985,50738,5894,3634],"class_list":["post-2661436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-conspiracy","tag-misinformation-2","tag-politics","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/howard-beale-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2661436"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2661440,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2661436\/revisions\/2661440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2661437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2661436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2661436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2661436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}