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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Jun 8, 2017, 12:57 PM Jun 2017

The Biggest Scandal Is the GOPs Response

June 8, 2017By Taegan Goddard

Michael Grunwald: “There are still plenty of unanswered questions about Russia—including the usual questions about what the president knew and when he knew it—but what’s shocking is how many questions have already been answered. The scandal has already led to the abrupt firing of Trump’s national security adviser. His attorney general and his son-in-law are also under siege for making false statements about their contacts with Russians; his former campaign manager is in legal jeopardy over his own political and financial ties to Russian operatives. And Trump himself keeps saying and tweeting things that would make any defense lawyer cringe, while doing things in his official capacity that make Vladimir Putin smile. It isn’t clear how much, if any, of this behavior has been criminal, but a lot of it is pretty clearly scandalous.”

“The main unanswered question is whether the Republicans who control Congress will do anything about any of it. So far, their response has mostly amounted to ‘Ha! ha! ha!'”

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https://politicalwire.com/2017/06/08/biggest-scandal-gops-response/

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The Biggest Scandal Is the GOPs Response (Original Post) DonViejo Jun 2017 OP
Of course it is. Eliot Rosewater Jun 2017 #1
Thank you for this, because that is what is happening still_one Jun 2017 #2
so true! niyad Jun 2017 #3
Agree. kentuck Jun 2017 #4
I don't think the GOP will do a thing about Trump... yuiyoshida Jun 2017 #5
Ask a republican to explain ThoughtCriminal Jun 2017 #6

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
1. Of course it is.
Thu Jun 8, 2017, 12:59 PM
Jun 2017

I think we need to stop talking, stop analyzing the reality that the GOP is, as a whole, traitors and start REACTING to it in some way where maybe we save the country.

We need serious leadership from someone, and quick.

yuiyoshida

(41,832 posts)
5. I don't think the GOP will do a thing about Trump...
Thu Jun 8, 2017, 01:08 PM
Jun 2017

He is their guy, they want him there...so they can undermined the country while people are distracted by Trump's shiny things.

ThoughtCriminal

(14,047 posts)
6. Ask a republican to explain
Thu Jun 8, 2017, 04:38 PM
Jun 2017

Why it would even be acceptable for Trump to "Hope" that Flynn not be investigated?

Setting aside obstruction, explain why Trump would would not want these ties to any foreign government and especially the Russians
by his national security adviser not be investigated.

There is no possible acceptable answers to that.

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