And it never occurs to them to askt “what if this was Hillary? would I be okay with it?” Let me think. Hmmm.
This is what happens when people start taking the “deep state” stuff in a really literal way. What they’re advocating is that the president be able to act independently and contrary to the interests of the rest of the US government, even the parts of the government that the president by law controls.
Next up: “One man’s treason is another man’s patriotism!”
Sometimes back channel communications can be useful, except when used for nefarious purposes. What’s really important is what the trump cabal’s purpose was.
Party before country, they all shouted in unison.
Wow. What has happened to religious christian conservatives in the Republican party? Selling classified information, compromising national security and betraying ones country to a foreign country in exchange for money is a good thing? Benedict Arnold was an American hero? Judas Iscariot was a good thing?
They should be locking the traitors and spies up until trial.
Arbitrary assertions of what and how do not address the question of why. If Kushner’s interest is America’s interest, why bypass protocols established to avoid potential conflicts of interest?
Wonder if some of them are concerned that it’s either Jared or Bannon and Bannon’s worse, so let’s not rush Jared off the cliff…?
“Traitors support treason”, News at 11:00.
NYT: “Is Colluding with Adversary To Destroy Country Treason? Views Differ”
The facts are that Kushner, Trump, et al still haven’t doubted the accuracy of the reporting.
Additionally, Kushner failed to mention his contacts with Kisliak on his clearance forms, and when given the opportunity to amend, there were additional contacts he again failed to disclose!
“Person of Interest” well on his way to becoming a “target”, whether Senator Graham likes it or not.
The more establishment Republicans defend Trump, the more his corruption and malfeasance reflect on them.
he’s more than glad
Why he’s plumb red-faced…
Ahem. Any real estate developer with Russian investors already has back channels available to them. This wasn’t setting up a back channel. It was an attempt to set up a covert communications channel to the Kremlin using Russian systems - something that in every other context would be called espionage.
And their Russian contributors through masked LLCs…
Lindsey Graham should return to his former job starring in “Petticoat Junction.”
Absolutely. They are all complicit = the entire GOP. They have to go.
they approach this as if it has occurred in a vacuum, not in the context of reality-based reality, as if multiple secret contacts over the course of 10 months before that did not occur, and then add in the request was so that US intelligence was being intentionally bypassed
as for ms. lindsey’s concerns, is Kislyak a double agent and wanted the US to know? Is this so beyond the norm that Russia wanted US intelligence to know, and the benefit of what was to be gained by Russia outweighed by potential future consequences? (essentially loans to bailout kushner’s bad investment) and those two are just off the top of my uninformed brain
the term “red state” and the R’s behind the “GOP” member’s names are taking on new meaning
if the division is this great, where one side sees such obvious treasonous behavior, and the other is OK with this, this country is in some deep shit
Benedict Arnold kept his oath, with certain exceptions.
By U.S Colonial government, Benedict Arnold - http://www.ourarchives.wikispaces.net/Archivist+of+the+United+States+David+Ferriero%27s+Favorite+Records, Public Domain, Link