In Ohio bastion, supporters dismiss uproar over Jr.

[struggle4progress]

Tim Reid

... In the mostly rural, heavily Baptist and predominately Trump-supporting terrain, the collective reaction ranges from ignorance about the Russia investigation, to a belief that some media want to destroy Republican President Donald Trump and his family, to complete disinterest ...

"It just plays into the belief here that the media is fixated on all things Russia," said Abernathy, whose newspaper was one of only six in the United States to have endorsed Trump for president during the election campaign ...

Trump won Highland County with more than 76 percent of the vote, 12 points more than the 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney won, part of a surge in votes for Trump in many Midwestern rural counties that was a significant factor in his victory ...

In the Bob Evans diner in Jackson, three workers from Walmart ... Asked about the Russia investigation .. stared back blankly. "I have never heard anything about it," said Chastity Banks. Neither had her two colleagues.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-ohio-idUSKBN19X2TN

[YCHDT]

1. The reason they've not heard about it is rural American news is 95% winger

[BootinUp]

2. Fuck them. Nt

[Bleacher Creature]

3. Never underestimate Fox News' ability to create an alternate reality.

Case in point:

Link to tweet

[Laura PourMeADrink]

4. It just proves there is a certain percentage of less than normal intelligentsia. Living in TX

I have learned first hand - there is absolutely no energy, knowledge, proof, that will make a difference. We just have to write them off. And, I include some of my in-laws in this group.

[pangaia]

5. Bob Evans... haute cuisine

[WinkyDink]

9. It ain't sausage making them stupid. It's cynical smart guys at FOX.

[CincyDem]

6. As an Ohioan, I get to say this...we have to work hard to be this oblivious (and stupid).

And Fox News is the ideological vitamin mix that gives them all that energy.

[Solly Mack]

7. You'd have to work at being that uniformed.

It has to be a conscious choice.

The information is available. You'd have to decide not to look for it.

[WinkyDink]

10. But the information is "FAKE"!

[Solly Mack]

12. There is that. They sure do have an answer for everything to not know anything.

[geek tragedy]

8. Place full of dumb fuck Trumpers produces dumb fuck Trumper quotes nt

[dalton99a]

11. "Thank God our country is run by a Russian puppet - and not a Chinese puppet!"

[Orrex]

13. Idiot racist fuckheads.

Proud of their idiot racist fuckheadedness.

[HAB911]

14. The reason NOTHING matters but indictments and prison

otherwise it doesn't exist