Glenn Greenwald claims believing in “white supremacist terrorism” is a ‘liberal psychopathology’

Glenn Greenwald, who is the founder of The Intercept, appeared on the Rolling Stone YouTube show “Useful Idiots” on September 18 — helmed by Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper — to say that belief in white supremacist terrorism is a form of liberal psychopathology.

“Listen to Ben Rhodes, listen to Susan Rice, or listen to Kamala about Russia and white supremacist terrorism,” Greenwald instructed.

“And you will not have any doubts that they are true believers in those propositions… [Kamala] definitely believes in the use of law enforcement to punish people she thinks deserve punishment.”

White supremacists pose the deadliest domestic terror threat facing the U.S., according to a DHS draft document that Politico reported on, which also labeled Russia as probably “the primary covert foreign influence actor and purveyor of disinformation and misinformation in the homeland.”

Taibbi followed up with a question: “You went on Tucker Carlson’s show to talk about the possibility of using a pardon, and you caught a ton of flak for it, can you walk us through your thought process, on going on the show — and what potential benefit there might be to doing a broadcast like that?”

“Donald Trump — kind of on his own — raised the possibility of a pardon of Edward Snowden about six to eight weeks ago, and then was asked about it a second time, and was stronger about the possibility that he would,” Greenwald said.

He then declared it’s “become clear why” the President was considering a pardon of Snowden, praising “people who have Trump’s ear, like Rand Paul, and congressman Matt Gaetz, have been advocating for a pardon of Snowden, on the grounds that he exposed what they consider to be the deep state spying apparatus that has been used against domestic opponents for abuse of political ends, including during the 2016 campaign.”

Greenwald was referring to the paranoid Fox News conspiracy theory that former President Barack Obama spied on Donald Trump.

Greenwald elaborated on why it was beneficial for him to appear on Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight, “I also know that going on Fox, the shows that Trump watches, that means Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson’s shows in particular, is a really effective way of speaking directly to the one person that holds the power of the pardon, which is the President.”

He ironically pointed to people convicted or accused of federal crimes that used their appearances on Fox, to beg Trump for a pardon.

“People have successfully gone on those shows and advocated for pardons before,” Greenwald stated. He went on to stress the “merit” of going on a show that gets four million views, and added it was his “ethical duty to end injustices in the world, such as the injustice of Edward Snowden being trapped in one country for having exposed things that Americans have the right to know. And the injustice of Julian Assange being prosecuted and to the United States, on revealing war crimes about the United States.”

In a self-righteous tone, Greenwald said that he “cared a lot more about outcomes, about actually having my beliefs manifest as change in the world, than I care about preening and posturing for the approval of online, larping liberals.”

Minutes later, Greenwald charged that Rachel Maddow and Chris Hayes are “so inconsequential,” explaining he only goes on consequential outlets.

Idrees Ahmad, the contributing editor of the non-profit LA Review of Books, mocked Greenwald for this comment on Twitter. Ahmad wrote snarkily that the only consequential podcasts Greenwald had managed to appear on in recent months was Megyn Kelly and pro-Assad conspiracy theorist Richard Medhurst.