Mulvaney Confirms Trump Held Up Ukraine Aid Over DNC Server Conspiracy | Talking Points Memo

They should be asking every Chump-turd how come the Server didn’t feature in any of your counter arguments until today? How come Rudy never mentioned it in any of his poo-flingings? How come you guys just said BUT BUT BUT for almost a month, but NOW the server is all important? Are you busy cloning one, so you can produce it and say SEE? Do you think anybody is going to buy that the Dems framed Russia, and Ukraine, and Chump to corrupt the elections…and still went on to lose? Remember Putin has admitted to hacking the election, states have evidence they were hacked, and Robert Mueller has jailed and put warrants on Russian hackers.

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And once again, there is no physical DNC server, never was, and it is not “missing”.

This part of the conspiracy developed from an anodyne note in an early report that Crowdstrike did not hand over a physical server to the FBI, but an image of the server’s data. Several conservative outlets immediately latched on to this, taking it as proof that something was being hidden; that Crowdstrike was not handing over the physical server because it would contain proof of somethingorother.

The reality is that they didn’t hand over the physical server because there wasn’t one. The “server” is actually cloud based, so they handed over an image because that’s all there ever was to hand over.

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What difference does the DNC server make? He’s bitching about a rigged election he WON.

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I still can’t figure out if I’m on the placebo or the real stuff. Even Mad Hatter wasn’t this confusing.

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“We do that all the time with foreign policy,”

NO. WE. DO. NOT.

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Because they don’t have to, under the current journalism rules anything that is said by the wingnuts has to be treated as true, otherwise the whine about bias in media.

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Ain’t that the pisser? he is stuck in outrage mode. Nothing will stop it.

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Karl pressed: “To be clear, what you described is a quid pro quo, it is, funding will not flow unless the investigation into the Democratic server happens as well?”

Mulvaney didn’t deny the characterization.

“We do that all the time with foreign policy,” he said.

Mulvaney hopes people are too uninformed to know how foreign aid and/or election law works, and is counting on the media not to inform those people. Yes, we sometimes put conditions on countries, but -

  • not conditions meant to personally help a candidate
  • before the money is approved, not after

ETA: I’d like to hear about any media figure asking for specific examples and press on how they relate to this one

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Did you take the blue pill or the red pill?

That dark place we’re in just got darker.

And btw, what other QpQ have there been?

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Yeah, well, hiding the cookies until the floor got mopped is pretty close. Just sayin’…

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It’s a deliberate (albeit doomed) attempt at distraction.

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Which one makes one small??

One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small

ETA: AZLyrics - request for access

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Right? They spirited it off to the Ukraine for hiding.

I mean, WTF.

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Because it bugs him that he didn’t win completely on his own

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I was thinking Matrix not Airplane… :slight_smile:

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…and then his lips fell off.

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Well, one good thing. The Mulvaney remarks on Ukraine, and the we’ll believe it when we see it Syria ceasefire, have already killed the momentum of the Doral G-7 distraction gambit.

And now Donnie is kissing Erdogan’s ass, and congratulating himself, in today’s episode of Chopper Talk. And blaming Obama. FFS

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“We do that all the time with foreign policy,” he said.

Translation: “Laws, schmalz.”

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“You’re damn right he ordered the code red! And this was on the express orders of the Dark Lord, his master Vladimir Putin.”

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