“Fox and Friends” host Steve Doocy, who President Donald Trump ranked 12/10 for loyalty, weighed in on the Trump-Ukraine scandal Tuesday.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1250765
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1250765
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“If the President said I will give you the money but you have got to investigate Joe Biden, that is really off the rails wrong,” Doocy said. “But if it’s something else, you know it, would be nice to know what it is.”
How long before Murdoch fires this guy?
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So if he used a bazooka to shoot someone on Park Avenue, it’s a problem, but with a pistol, well, that’s okay?
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FYI Dump giving a speech now eyes squinted shut and talking very slow, Sure looks medicated to me
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“If the President said I will give you the money but you have got to investigate Joe Biden, that is really off the rails wrong,” Doocy said. “But if it’s something else, you know it, would be nice to know what it is.”
So, Steve Doocy is for releasing the tapes and transcripts of the conversations referred to in the WB complaint, as well as giving the complaint to the House and Senate Intelligence Committees?
Or, does he just want the so-called president to make up another lie and that will be good enough for him?
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Murdoch does not care anymore. He is busy off counting his money from the sale of FOX Entertainment to Disney.
His SON however, who now runs News Corp, may take offense to it.
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Don’t worry. Tomorrow, after another leak provides proof of an explicit quid pro quo demand by Trump of Ukraine, Fox News will have their in-house Winston Smith erase Doocey’s remarks from history. Doocey will deny that he ever made such a statement.
We have always been at war with East Asia.
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Ainsley Earhardt is off-the-rails stupid. ‘If he just had a phone call you know saying…’ dumba$$.
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He’s trying to read words he’s never seen before in quite that same order, many of which he does not know or understand either individually or when used in groups to express an idea.
(full disclosure - I’m not watching, just guessing from previous speeches)
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Doocy is talking with both sides of his mouth. He knows that the president did not do it that way. Trump withheld the money first and then pressured the Ukrainians into investigating Biden, he didn’t have to make it explicit, the Ukrainians understood, but Doocy can argue that he never mentioned the money and as such it’s all kosher.
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That’s why she got the job.
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That’s not how it works Steve. That’s not how any of this works.
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“Nice little country you have there. It’d be a shame if Russia ‘annexed’ it. “
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It’s super fucking wrong even if there was no explicit carrot-or-stick, but you know Trump also included the carrot-and-stick. So here we are, Doocy is accidentally kind of half correct for what may be the first time.
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Good Read here -
"We can only hope the whistleblower possesses a thumb drive containing audio files and transcripts, unmolested from the moment the calls were first recorded by NSA and others. Lordy, I hope there are tapes. The side-by-side comparisons between the White House version and the whistleblower version would be … informative.
On top of the myriad other actions in response to Trump’s criminality here, the appropriate congressional committees must subpoena Barr, if for no other reason than to determine what, if anything, he plans to do in the face of the president’s admitted pressure on the Justice Department to act against Biden. Barr also needs to answer for his role in the White House stonewalling of Congress, preventing the House Intelligence Committee from seeing the whistleblower’s evidence and hearing his or her testimony."
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Amazing how these idiots will require a word-for-word quid pro quo to even begin to acknowledge that Donnie did something wrong. They forget Incredibly strong circumstantial evidence is still incredibly good evidence to people in the real world.
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“Nice country you got there. Be a shame if something happened to it.”
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The implication here, that an explicit quid pro quo would be required, doesn’t comport with ordinary law enforcement standards.
I don’t see why we should embrace disingenuousness for Trump when the implications are fairly obvious.
a) Trump withheld military aid
b) Trump told the Ukraine to investigate the Bidens
That’s enough.
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Well, then, by all reports, Doocy gets his support. The WAPO story substantiates the hold of the money until the investigation.
Whistleblower report needs to be revealed or leaked. Because once Trump loses Doocy, it’s all over.
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Exactly - the extortion was implied, not explicit - the defense will be that he never actually said that the aid was dependent upon the investigation of Biden - even though obvious to all functioning adults, that will be the defense because they will go down screaming that he never did anything wrong.
This is a political and not a criminal issue, but they will rely on our very own SCOTUS ruling that quid pro quo has to be so obvious that even a child could make the connection - another terrible decision from the last decade. Doocy is saying exactly what he has been told to say to lay this groundwork
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