Republicans defeat Democratic push for docs on Trump-Putin summit
Source: The Hill
House Republicans on Thursday rejected a push by Democrats to obtain documents from the Trump administration about President Trumps one-on-one summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in July.
Democrats on the House Foreign Affairs Committee rallied behind a resolution that would have directed the executive branch to send to Congress copies of all documents, records, communications, transcripts, summaries, notes, memoranda, and read-aheads related to Trumps summit with Putin in Helsinki over the summer.
Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-Pa.) introduced the measure as a resolution of inquiry, which under House rules must be considered by a committee within 14 legislative days, or else its sponsors can force a vote on the House floor.
Lawmakers on the committee voted along party lines to reject the effort Thursday afternoon.
Trump endured a barrage of criticism, including from Republicans, following the summit, during which he appeared to cast doubt on the U.S. intelligence communitys assessment about Russian election interference at a press conference alongside Putin. The president later walked back the remarks, saying he misspoke.
Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/406600-republicans-defeat-democratic-push-for-docs-on-trump-putin-summit
ananda
(28,866 posts)Whether it gets reported properly is another matter.
cstanleytech
(26,298 posts)flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)It WAS good that they forced a vote on this. Now when they lie about it (and they WILL), we have irrefutable proof. What possible reason could they have for this?
joshdawg
(2,650 posts)I prefer traitor.
SWBTATTReg
(22,143 posts)material too. Really does make you wonder what's going on here.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)The Liberal Lion
(1,414 posts)Silly me!
riversedge
(70,243 posts)SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)We wouldn't want the truth to come out now, would we?
Bayard
(22,100 posts)If the Dems try to do anything, the Pugs will go against them just to be assholes.
lark
(23,109 posts)They know the president is a traitor and are afraid to request the information because they know PUtin would tell his lackey not to release itl They don't want to highlight that fact een more and are just hoping people forget they saw drumpf basically on his knees in front of his master.
DavidDvorkin
(19,479 posts)FakeNoose
(32,645 posts)Can't a media outlet like NYT or CNN file an FOIA request?
LiberalLovinLug
(14,174 posts)Its a play on The Big Lie. They've just expanded the strategy. ie..."Surely they wouldn't be committing treason right in front of us would they?". Uh yes they are.
Okay..I know this could be applied in almost any day in this sham presidency, but once in awhile, I just have to swing back to...What if a Democrat were in a similar situation? Which wouldn't happen of course, because no Democratic candidate would deal with a foreign power to steal an election. But for the sake of argument, lets say Hillary or Obama ten years ago, went in league with Chaves or Maduro, a left equivalent of a semi dictatorship, under the guise of democracy. And the Venezuelans had a crack team of social media propagandist experts and hackers that had info on the Republican party's campaign and even promised dirt on Trump (but then how hard would that have been?) And there were proven meetings between Venezuelan agents and Hillary's campaign members.
And with Trump leading the polls and everyone expecting him to win....guess what? Hillary somehow squeeks a win out!
Then it comes out from intelligence services that Venezuela was definitely screwing with our elections in order for Hillary to win.
But it doesn't stop there. After Democrats majorities fail to do anything other than passing sanctions which Hillary immediately cancels, a special investigation with a Democrat leading it is formed to look into it. And after a few months 5 of Hillary's former staff or lawyers are charged with crimes. Still Democrats sit on their hands, appealing to the 30% of better-dead-than-red die hard Democrats, over the national will.
Then
then
Hillary flies over to a third party moderate south American country to have a secret meeting, with only translators allowed, with Maduro, amidst much criticism from the, what Hillary likes to call, the "phony news".
Back in DC, the Republicans, almost besides themselves, ask for a vote on finding out what was said, any documents from that meeting. To which Democrats say no, we don't think so.
I mean.....WTF people.
This seems like one big social experiment to see just how far this can go until people wake up from the matrix and look around and take in the depth of these assholes betrayal.