GOP Senators Follow Grenell’s Cue On Flynn ‘Unmasking,’ Ask For Obama Admin Names | Talking Points Memo

Senate Republicans asked Attorney General Bill Barr and acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell for a list of Obama administration officials at the center of a right-wing conspiracy theory, days after Grenell declassified their identities.


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It’s very important Obama must be defeated in the next election.

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I’ve been thinking the time will come when DOJ tries to indict Joe Biden. I wasn’t thinking big enough - they’re going to try to go after Barack Obama.

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Good to know they don’t have more pressing issues. Barr will go after Biden AND Obama by the summer, or at the very least, their close surrogates: Susan Rice, Eric Holder, etc.

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How many foolish investigations will the Republicans sign up for? They have nothing, have never had anything and will come up empty with this as well…excepting, of course, for time and exposure on their television network.

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The penalty for being uppity can be great indeed.

That boy looked at more than a few white women in his day. He must repent.

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This is really desperate and will probably backfire. Trump and a few GOP Senators think they can repeat Benghazi and emailgate to somehow shore up support. It’s not a strategy that will work in the middle of a recession and a pandemic, though. It’s likely to just piss people off even more about those currently in power.

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Thank FSM that nothing urgent is happening now, so the GOP can focus on the truly imaginary, I mean, important things…

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I can already see a heavily armed crowd of angry 3%-ers outside Obama’s residence. Whereupon Bill Barr will have to point out they’re merely exercising their 1st Amendment rights to peacefully protest.

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This is part of their campaign strategy to dirty up Joe Biden via President Obama. The base will eat this up but the majority of Americans are far more concerned about the chaotic management of the public health emergency -Covid-19. 83,564 deaths and counting, no plan to manage the pandemic and the economy in the dumper and yet this is what Grassley and Johnson believe to be important. Go figure.

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When you 'got 'nutin you must CREATE a “scandal” to distract the MSM from your glaring fuck-ups.

The Joe Biden “Sex Scandal” was a bust, so now they are going for the BIG ONE.

It’s time to go full-bore Racist and PUBLICLY LYNCH OBAMA for the terrible crime of being MORE POPULAR than Dear Leader Trump.

The MSM is waiting with baited breath for this to break, preparing op-ed after op-ed to push this FAKE SCANDAL like they did with “But her E-Mails” so they can stop doing actual “Journalism” and get back to what they love doing; “SCANDALS!!!”
Throw in a huge dose of good 'ol 'Murican RACISM and it will be like catnip to them.

Led around by the nose by the Reich-Wing Media, the NYT, WaPo, CNN, and others will jump on this with both hands and feet, DESPERATE for something “juicy” to sink their fangs into so they can ignore the rising death numbers from COVID-19 and get back to selling advertising.

America. It was great while it lasted…

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Counter Intelligence is not the same as Domestic Investigations. But, it isn’t like their constituents care about Facts.

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As if Republicans couldn’t sink any lower, make themselves even more hateful, and be even more loathed, despised and hated by the majority of literate, thinking, educated Americans.
They keep surprising me, I’ll give them that.

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And then armed Black Panthers show up and yucks ensue!

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Sasha is running for something?

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O/T: Kushner just questioned whether the election will take place… Anyone still wanna call me crazy?

@tena @rucleare

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/05/13/jared-kushner-election-delay-coronavirus/

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Oh! Oh! Let me! Let me! :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

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It will definitely NOT be Chuck Todd’s job to point out any problems with this fishing expedition. And if he does stumble into doing his job he’ll surely apologize and retract anything factual he reports.

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We wholeheartedly agree that transparency is needed more now than ever.

That’s rich, considering the source.

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Expect Barr to initiate grand jury proceedings and leak disinformation all summer.

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