As Twitchy reported earlier, Judge Diane Goodstein's South Carolina home was engulfed in flames on Saturday night. The family managed to escape with no life-threatening injuries, though three are hospitalized. Authorities are investigating the cause of the blaze. Someone named Spencer Hakimian posted that it was an apparent explosion, which led all of the usual suspects, like Mehdi Hasan, to suggest that a Trump supporter blew up her house because she had temporarily blocked the release of South Carolina voter data to the Trump administration.
Among the worst offenders of playing psychic was Rep. Dan Goldman, who wanted to know when President Trump was going to speak out against the extreme right that did this:
TIME Magazine went ahead with the "enemy of President Trump's house set ablaze" angle.
Miranda Jeyaretnam reports:
Police are investigating the cause of a fire that burned down the home of South Carolina Circuit Court judge Diane Goodstein, who had reportedly received death threats for weeks related to her work.
"At this time, there is no evidence to indicate the fire was intentionally set," South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) Chief Mark Keel told TIME in a statement on Monday, noting that the investigation into the house fire on Edisto Beach is "active and ongoing."
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If the fire at the judge’s house turns out to be targeted, it may mark the latest incident of a startling rise in political violence in the U.S. And while the Trump Administration has blamed the left’s rhetoric for inspiring violence such as the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, an attack on a judge would come as the Administration has increasingly vilified the judiciary, blasting judges that rule against it as “U.S.A-hating” insurrectionists.
Wait, the headline said the house was set ablaze, but the story says there's no evidence yet that the fire was intentionally set. Then Jeyaretnam speculates that if the fire was targeted, it may mark the latest incident "in a startling rise of political violence in the U.S." We thought reporters were supposed to stick to the facts.
TIME also reports that investigators have preliminarily found there is no evidence to support a pre-fire explosion, so take the original post with a grain of salt.
The story pretty quickly contradicts the post, but that doesn't stop the "journalist" from imagining if it were politically motivated. Maybe we should wait and see what the investigators find.
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