Category: Counting On

Duggar family fans and haters alike were both shocked to see Anna Duggar return to reality TV. The former 19 Kids and Counting star made her first Counting On appearance in six years this week. And Anna’s return has sparked new concerns about Josh Duggar coming back as well.

The frequency with which he’s started speaking out against Jim Bob Duggar would seem to suggest that we might be getting a Derick Dillard book after all. Derick, whose views on the transgender community remain not great, has started using his social media platforms to attack the Duggar family patriarch more often, now that Counting On has returned with new episodes. In his latest salvo, Derick compared Jim Bob to the notorious accused sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein, and once again appeared to promise he’ll someday spill all Jim Bob’s tea.

After a weekend filled with gossip and uncertainty about an alleged Duggar home raid, we’ve finally gotten confirmation that federal agents were at the family’s compound as part of an “ongoing criminal investigation.” However, the Duggars themselves have also offered a denial of the events, in which they appear to be splitting hairs about the definition of the word “raided.”

Despite a tidal wave of rumors, gossip, and supposed circumstantial evidence proving it, there appears to have been no Josh Duggar FBI raid this past weekend. But the real story is how the alleged raid went from Facebook gossip to blind item to accepted fact by plenty of Duggar detractors in just 48 hours.