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Flo Mingo

(492 posts) Wed Nov 1, 2017, 12:42 PM Nov 2017

Is Paul Ryan guilty of obstruction?

Remember back in June last year when the, what should have been explosive, tape emerged where Kevin McCarthy is recorded telling Paul Ryan and others that he believes Trump and Rohrbacher were being paid by Putin?

Ryan's response was to instruct everyone to keep that to themselves. And "That's how we know we're a family". Wouldn't Ryan be morally, if not legally bound to pass that info to the FBI?

I want to see Mueller's net cast far and wide over the entire Republican cabal. They all either knew or indirectly participated in a foreign government interfering in our elections.

The only explanation for the stubborn refusal to hold Trump accountable is they're just as dirty or they don't give a fuck as long as they get their agenda passed. Either way, they deserve to be held accountable for their dereliction of duty.

[link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/house-majority-leader-to-colleagues-in-2016-i-think-putin-pays-trump/2017/05/17/515f6f8a-3aff-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html?utm_term=.389e0c357994|

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Is Paul Ryan guilty of obstruction? (Original Post) Flo Mingo Nov 2017 OP

And he could stop Nunes. OnDoutside Nov 2017 #1

+1 emulatorloo Nov 2017 #9

This is still amazing - even after all this time. rainin Nov 2017 #2

You can listen at the link Flo Mingo Nov 2017 #3

I clicked on the link rainin Nov 2017 #7

They will say it is a joke marylandblue Nov 2017 #4

They can say it's a joke Flo Mingo Nov 2017 #5

Not in that case FBaggins Nov 2017 #6

Is he still electable? Loge23 Nov 2017 #8

OnDoutside

(19,974 posts)

1. And he could stop Nunes.

Reply to Flo Mingo (Original post)

Wed Nov 1, 2017, 12:45 PM

Nov 2017

emulatorloo

(44,192 posts)

9. +1

Reply to OnDoutside (Reply #1)

Wed Nov 1, 2017, 02:02 PM

Nov 2017

rainin

(3,011 posts)

2. This is still amazing - even after all this time.

Reply to Flo Mingo (Original post)

Wed Nov 1, 2017, 12:49 PM

Nov 2017

I'd like to hear the tape again. Traitors! All of them!

Flo Mingo

(492 posts)

3. You can listen at the link

Reply to rainin (Reply #2)

Wed Nov 1, 2017, 12:53 PM

Nov 2017

rainin

(3,011 posts)

7. I clicked on the link

Reply to Flo Mingo (Reply #3)

Wed Nov 1, 2017, 01:06 PM

Nov 2017

and watched the reporter talk about the recording and I found the link to the transcript, but I'm missing the link to the actual audio. Is it there and I just can't see it?

I know I heard it when it first came out, but I want to hear it again.

Anybody else struggling with anger over all of this?

TRAITORS!!!!!!!!

marylandblue

(12,344 posts)

4. They will say it is a joke

Reply to Flo Mingo (Original post)

Wed Nov 1, 2017, 12:53 PM

Nov 2017

Unless Mueller can find some documentation that they knew it was true, it's not enough evidence.

Flo Mingo

(492 posts)

5. They can say it's a joke

Reply to marylandblue (Reply #4)

Wed Nov 1, 2017, 12:59 PM

Nov 2017

and some of the attendees did laugh out loud but McCarthy followed with a very serious, "Swear to God"

FBaggins

(26,773 posts)

6. Not in that case

Reply to Flo Mingo (Original post)

Wed Nov 1, 2017, 01:02 PM

Nov 2017

If there was a duty to report to law enforcement every time someone was heard to believe that Trump was a criminal (without citing any evidence or reason to believe that he knew of any)... then DU would be on the phone with the FBI 24/7.

Now... if McCarthy had such evidence and never provided it to law enforcement... perhaps he would be guilt of obstruction.

Loge23

(3,922 posts)

8. Is he still electable?

Reply to Flo Mingo (Original post)

Wed Nov 1, 2017, 01:10 PM

Nov 2017

Ryan's elect-ability is even more astonishing.
There was a time, not long ago, when a a scandal of this proportion would have finished a politician.

Now, the troglodytes who support this guy actually rally around their perp.

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