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You Go Girl! Kellyanne Conway Goes after Adam Schiff
Kellyanne Conway is fighting back. She’s not just willing to say, “let’s just move along, folks”; for one, she’s going after Adam Schiff:
Adam Schiff should resign. He has no right as somebody who has been peddling a lie, day after day after day, unchallenged and not under oath. Somebody should have put him under oath and said ‘you have evidence, where is it’?
. . . Those who let this lie fly for two years, haranguing and harassing and trying to embarrass and worse, those of us connected to the 2016 campaign, beginning with the president and his own family really do owe people — owe America an apology.
I think Republicans need to call out every Democrat and every “journalist,” every reporter and every media organization that spread the lies and fake news. I think they should do it with dignity, dispassion and class. They should show them how a professional comports him or herself.
Let’s not forget all those people who lost their families, their fortunes and their reputations at the hands of James Comey and his pals, and Mueller and his crew.
This country will never be the same.
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I think this gets to Susan’s question. The indications are that there is rot in the senior ranks of DOJ and FBI. Thus you need an outsider whose next job is not in the same system to come in, notice what is wrong, and act without fear of upsetting future coworkers or bosses
I suggest a proven state Supreme Court justice, or federal judge with a career away from the Beltway.
I don’t understand how so much of what the DOJ and FBI did would not rise to the level of treason. After losing an honest election they tried to take down a sitting president. Am I exaggerating?
Yes you are exaggerating. Treason was frequently charged by the British against the colonialists to the point that Article III, Section 3 limits conviction for treason to two eye-witnesses.
Was there good cause to investigate collusion. I believe so. Charlie Sykes quotes David Frum as follows:
“It’s not a theory but a matter of historical record that Vladimir Putin’s Russia hacked American emails and used them to help elect Trump to the presidency.
“It’s not a theory but a matter of historical record that agents purporting to represent Putin’s Russia approached the Trump campaign to ask whether help would be welcome, to which Donald Trump Jr. replied, ‘If it’s what you say I love it…’
“It’s not a theory but a matter of historical record that Donald Trump publicly welcomed this help: ‘I love WikiLeaks!'”
https://thebulwark.com/no-collusion-no-exoneration/
The FBI, the NSA, and the CIA never inspected the compromised servers. The information that it was the Russians is secondhand, from an outfit named CrowdStrike, who was hired by the DNC. There is no point discussing the chain of custody of the evidence because there isn’t one. There was never a chain, there was never any custody, and there is no point in giving any credence to the so-called evidence, either.
You’d never get that bilge into a court of law.
I purport to be an agent representing the court of King Charles II of Spain. Believe me?
The “agents” offered no help. All they wanted to do was discuss revocation of the Magnitsky Act.
Oh, please. WikiLeaks was publishing documents that made it clear that the DNC was fixing the primaries in favor of Hillary (Note that the DNC never questioned the content of those messages. Not one single attempt to claim that the emails were forgeries was made.) They also established that John Podesta is the kind of email user who clicks on links contained in unsolicited emails. The term of art within the IT community for such a user is “knucklehead.”
If you took that guff to an honest judge and asked for a warrant, he’d have you tossed out of his chambers.
Oh please! David Frum? Not a source I’d depend on.
No, you are not.
Is it a matter of historical record? I was under the impression that the Russians hacked American emails and used them to sow confusion. They were’t so interested in electing a particular person to be president as they were in destabilizing the system.
It’s a matter of historical record in the same way that Nazi responsibility for the Katyn Forest massacre is a matter of historical record. It’s a false historical record, but it’s a matter of historical record.
Move along, nothing to see here.
True. Also, as long as they were simply saying they were going to hand them what amounted to honest reporting I don’t think that meeting was illegal either. I maybe wrong.
It also showed that the DNC is controlled by a bunch of ruling class creeps that hate half of their constituents. Blech.
No, there wasn’t a good cause to investigate collusion. There was a fake cause bought and paid for by HRC from foreign agents in an attempt to influence the election. That happened. We’ve known that for well over a year. Stop trying to whitewash that in your overriding pursuit of Orange Man Bad.
There was good cause to investigate Russian interference and hacking. There was no good cause to implicate Trump in that. Stop conflating the two.
Now (and for well over a year), there’s also been good cause to investigate who weaponized the federal government against political opponents.
I don’t understand why you keep trying to muddy this and equivocate. I was joking about you being an algorithmic bot, but perhaps I wasn’t so far from the doggone truth.
Limbaugh just talked about the DNC WikiLeaks leak. Nobody knows if Russia did it. Podesta fell for a phishing scam that wasn’t that sophisticated.