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John Heilemann has had an epiphany, and it's about time. He's been raising the alarm for more than a week, saying that Republicans are compromised and working as agents of Russia.
Last night on MSNBC, he said it again.
"I've said this now multiple times this week and I'll say it again," he told Nicolle Wallace about the administration's determination to release the Nunes memo.
"It has clarified the extent to which Paul Ryan is now no longer on Team USA, or on even Team Old Republican Party. He is on Team Nunes, which means he's on Team Trump, which means to some extent they're all -- they're advancing, in some sense, Russia. This is -- this is what Russia wants here.
"And I continue to be baffled by Ryan's behavior. But we now have a clear signal that Ryan is utterly supine and he's backed Nunes, he's saying to the extent that Nunes is saying we don't care about Russian meddling in the 2016 election, what we're going to do is investigate the FBI, which is what Nunes is saying. Ryan has come out and endorsed that view. And I find that utterly stunning," he said.
"Paul Ryan has behaved poorly over the course of the last year, but this -- I did not think he would end up in this position. He is and he is there. It has huge implications for the future, too."
https://crooksandliars.com/2018/02/john-heilemann-paul-ryan-no-longer-team
riversedge
(70,239 posts)randr
(12,412 posts)I would venture that the lsos has a portfolio on all of them accepting laundered money or in some nefarious compromising position.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)"Every senior Republican is a Russian agent, working to overthrow American democracy."
oasis
(49,388 posts)contacts have promised him. His only allegiance is to Ayn Rand ideology.
librechik
(30,674 posts)continue to slow walk and torpedo everything America stands for and seize the whole thing for the most complicit hands.
Justice
(7,188 posts)Millions and millions of dollars.
Maybe Ryan and McConnell didn't know what Trump was up to - they just made a deal for money to win Congress. Now they are compromised and must fall behind Trump or be exposed.
logosoco
(3,208 posts)StevieM
(10,500 posts)Heilemann, Scarborough and Mika all lied about that.
Caliman73
(11,738 posts)Ryan has been using the GOP as a political vessel to try to enact his libertarian policies of destroying the infrastructure of the Federal government to achieve his Randian Utopia, his Galt's Gulch if you will. Ryan is as much a narcissist as Trump, but he is not as vulgar and showy.