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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFrank Figliuzzi, MSNBC pundit, former Assistant Director for Counterintelligence at the FBI...
"We have a game going on, the president is telling the public one thing and handing the FBI an entirely different thing"
No link.....just said on MSNBC
Chiquitita
(752 posts)He lied in a job interview. He should be disqualified based on that. Kavanaugh = lied, lies, lying, liar
TheBlackAdder
(28,205 posts)Chiquitita
(752 posts)per·jure
ˈpərjər/Submit
verbLAW
willfully tell an untruth when giving evidence to a court; commit perjury.
synonyms:lie under oath, lie, commit perjury, give false evidence/testimony;
TheBlackAdder
(28,205 posts).
Yes, it is lying. But lying while sworn under oath. It's not just a lie, but a criminal offense.
Words and their contexts do matter. Kavanaugh perjures repeatedly.
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Scruffy1
(3,256 posts)In the Us code lying to Congress is a crime whether your under oath or not. I know the public will never get this because politicians like to confuse the issue.
live2011
(101 posts)So, either Trump is lying (again) or he doesnt know what he is talking about (again). Its so hard to decide (again). NEITHER IS ACCEPTABLE!
spanone
(135,840 posts)irresistable
(989 posts)MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)MJ tried to trip him up, but instead sounded like an ignoramus. Figliuzzi has contacts inside the FBI and KNOWS what he's talking about.
JudyM
(29,250 posts)They keep pushing the bounds of acceptable play.
Our election infrastructure is going to have to be re-secured and Faux news is going to have to be somehow constrained in order for us to maintain our democracy. Otherwise it will be completely out of our hands.
This is a coup d'etat. The lies, assaults, hypocrisy don't matter - they don't care. We don't know how to respond yet.
calimary
(81,295 posts)Only once did these bastards ever have to swallow that bitter pill: Nixon. And theyve been bitter, resentful, aggrieved, and hellbent on settling scores ever since.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,348 posts)A.k.a., reaching across the aisle, off the table, working together.
"I will not 'work together' to ..."
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211143812
calimary
(81,295 posts)Maraya1969
(22,482 posts)that law?
ewagner
(18,964 posts)Can a Senator on the Judiciary Committee file a complaint with the FBI that Kavanaugh PERJURED HIMSELF before the Committee...the stolen memos is enough by itself!
Mr.Bill
(24,299 posts)committee would need the approval of the committee as a whole. Which means right now it's not going to happen, and yet one more reason to GOTV.
dawnie51
(959 posts)behind the curtain, pulling the levers. And for the brain dead Dumpers, they take his shit as gospel. But 75 per cent of the country SEES. And the rethugs know that they see. And they are know what's coming for them in November.
Botany
(70,508 posts)The FBI will not interview Julie Swetnick, the third woman to accuse Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, according to multiple reports and the Republican senator Lindsey Graham, highlighting the narrow scope of the agencys supplemental investigation into Donald Trumps supreme court nominee.
After NBC News and the other outlets said Swetnick would not be questioned, the White House, which has stood by Kavanaugh through the fallout from an explosive Senate hearing on Thursday, denied it was limiting the investigation.
On Saturday Donald Trump said on Twitter he wanted the FBI to interview whoever they deem appropriate, at their discretion
spanone
(135,840 posts)pdsimdars
(6,007 posts)(it's called sarcasm)
RVN VET71
(2,691 posts)They tell the truths, and if one of the truths seems to contradict the other, it's because the audiences are different, not be cause they are trying to lie.
It's so easy to do if you have no conscience and truly love yourself more than any living creature, including your daughter.
To the public at-large: "I want the FBI investigation to move freely in whatever direction required to get at the truth. No limits, not from me. No siree bob!"
To the FBI: "You have a week, no more, to interview only people connected to Doctor Ford's rather dubious accusations. I'm not limiting questions you might ask concerning that alleged event, but do not ask questions of alcoholic blackouts and other sexual indiscretions. Don't talk to anyone from Yale, especially. And if you can't locate Mike Judge quickly, well, forget him."
See? Truths!
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)his own family if necessary.
But some of us knew this THIRTY years ago...lots of us did.
Bottom line, the most qualified human being to ever run for the office of President (surely one of the top 3 of all time if not #1) lost to the single most unqualified piece of human shit ever born.
Why?
Easy.
One was a STRONG WOMAN, the other was something similar in appearance to a "man"
Zackr
(2 posts)On a few occasions since Trumps election I have imagined protesting at the New York FBI office with a sign saying, Is it still Trumpland in there?
Now I think the other side of my sign would say Bureau of Fake Investigations
Amaryllis
(9,524 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,586 posts)The WH LIED, dumbass. Call it what it is.
The dog wasn't "put to sleep," she was killed. Grandma didn't "go to a better place," she died. Santa Claus doesn't exist -- wait, I need to reconsider that last one.