What were Grassley and Feinstein told in that ultra top secret briefing room that caused them to blanche white in shock as they emerged from the room. Farmer Grassley couldn’t even speak of what they had learned and left it up to Feinstein to give a brief statement to the press. This rancid old bastard really needs to stay on the tractor planting beans.
Don’t forget, Obama had FIRED FLYNN because of previous counter-intelligence intercepts, and definitely WAS keeping tabs on him as the security risk he remained to be.
He told Trump to his face DO NOT HIRE FLYNN BECAUSE HE IS A RUSSIAN ASSET AND WE HAVE PROOF OF IT, yet Trump hired him ANYWAY!!! Over the objections of his OWN VETTING COMMITTEE!!!
Chris Christie was chair of that committee and he refused to allow Flynn to be hired for this VERY REASON, so Jared/Ivanka got Daddy to FIRE CHRISTIE and replaced him with Mike “RuberStamp” Pence as chair of the Vetting committee, who approved the hiring of Flynn immediately.
If Flynn was so innocent, then WHY did Trump FIRE HIM for “Lying to the Vice President”?
Now of course, with the shit hitting the fan over COVID-19, Cheatolini is desperate for a distraction, and THIS IS IT.
Trump needs to throw everything against the wall before it all collapses. I suspect to see more of these distractions.
[quote=“discobot, post:1, topic:182165”]
“Today I received the shocking reply that @JoeBiden and many others knew!” Paul tweeted. “What did President Obama know?”
[/quote]
Like the Tara Reade thing, I’ve seen enough. I’m done with this.
and he will paint it black, too.
Masks and Walls, Trump’s only real legacy.
“MAY have received”? “cannot confirm”?
This is weak sauce but it is probably enough for the mouth breathers who “report” for Fox News.
ETA: Yes, nannybot, “cannot” is ONE word. Buy a dictionary.
I hope Pence breathed hard on him before the meeting with the meat and grain honchos who had to take off their masks. I hope Pence and Grassley fell into each others’ arms.
I never liked Lord of the Flies, because my teen age brain, though addled, sensed that it was a justification of authority.
Here´s an interesting article about a real marooning of teenage boys, and what happened to them.
This is what we get when the administration gets rid of career professional intelligence folks in the top levels, and replaces them with political hacks with acting folks who have not been confirmed by the Senate (though with this senate, I expect they’d confirm Putin himself in the position – after all, Agent Orange gave a thumbs up to such things earlier)
If you argued this as well as you possibly could to an audience of any extra voters you might persuade who were paying attention, the best you could possibly do is tell them the Obama administration investigated your campaign’s members for political gain.
Which, it can easily be pointed out, is what the Trump people are obviously and flagrantly doing now.
Seems pretty weak. But can you blame them? When Trump talks about his supposed accomplishments, he’s got to talk about nominating judges, which is a level of customary functioning not far above turning on the lights when you come in to work in the morning. Tax cuts? Rebuilding the military? All of that can be brushed aside like a dusting of snow. They got nuttin’ and they know it, and all this convoluted unmasking stuff isn’t going to do jack for them. It’s not the kind of thing that lands hard, like saying this guy fired the pandemic people for spite and then we had a pandemic and he sat on his hands because he’s crazy.
Buckle up, Buttercup, players are playing long toss, the Ump has yet to say, “Play Ball!”
Gonna be a long, hot summer.
Rand wants Grenell to testify in front of the senate next week. That would be a huge mistake. The committee Dems will rip his hide off.
Time to “unmask” all the intelligence operatives who determined Russia interfered in the 2016 election on behalf of Trump. The nerve of the intelligence agencies investigating reality is just beyond the pale when we have Rush Limbaugh & Alex Jones intuiting things for the rest of us. May the fever swamps be filled with pestilence & may a pox be visited upon its inhabitants.
Stop the nonsense already. This is the idiocracy trying to distract itself from failure.
Oh how horrible. Vice President Biden caught doing his duty.
File under Trump commits yet another impeachable offense.
FFS. I guess the whole Obama TELLING Trump that Flynn was a risk wasn’t ENOUGH for the conspiracy minded MAGAhats. They had to UNMASK DAMMIT HILLARY OBAMA mumble mumble…and by Grenell of all people. Scum. Total lying hypocritical scum.
Yeah,
“Each individual was an authorized recipient of the original report and the unmasking was approved through the NSA’s standard process…” should be the last word on this garbage.
There’s simply nothing untoward or irregular here.
So let’s hope Grenell testifies.
He’s far from bright, and would be a truly dreadful witness for the Trumpies.
The “and get the Russian government to comply” is key.