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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMorning Joe mocks GOP...: 'It takes a special kind of genius' to get 'checkmated by the facts'
Morning Joe panel mocks GOP over Comey memos: It takes a special kind of genius to get checkmated by the factsTRAVIS GETTYS
20 APR 2018 AT 07:30 ET
MSNBCs Nicolle Wallace mocked House Republicans after their attempt to discredit FBI director James Comey quickly backfired and confirmed his salacious claims about President Donald Trump.
The presidents congressional allies pressured the Department of Justice to release contemporaneous memos written by Comey, which match up with accounts in his new book describing events from the early months of the Trump administration.
Every conversation that Jim Comey testified to is proven out by the memos that the Republicans trying to prosecute Jim Comey wanted released, said Wallace, who was filling in as guest host of Morning Joe. This is really a case where the Republicans were checkmated by the facts.
House Republicans threatened to hold deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein in contempt if he did not authorize release of the memos, which were promptly leaked to reporters.
It takes a certain special kind of genius on the part of the Republicans to think that having these memos and then leaking them would somehow be would work out well for the president, said MSNBCs John Heilemann, that this would somehow exonerate him, knowing what the substance of the memos were. There may be a few new details, but these memos were never going to be good for President Trump, and none of them are devastating. Theres no huge material fact here thats going to move the investigation.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/morning-joe-panel-mocks-gop-comey-memos-takes-special-kind-genius-get-checkmated-facts/
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Morning Joe mocks GOP...: 'It takes a special kind of genius' to get 'checkmated by the facts' (Original Post)
DonViejo
Apr 2018
OP
Masterfully played, GOP. Now everyone is talking about trump and hookers again.
flibbitygiblets
Apr 2018
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exboyfil
(17,863 posts)1. A Br'er rabbit move
Please don't throw me into that briar patch.
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)2. Masterfully played, GOP. Now everyone is talking about trump and hookers again.
Would you like to subpoena & leak anything else, or are you done for now?