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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNunes is gone, so they're going to try to delegitimize the committee instead.
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https://crooksandliars.com/2019/02/house-minority-leader-mccarthy-demands
2/17/19 10:12am
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy did his best to undermine the new Democratic House Intelligence Chairman during an appearance on Fox's Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo.
The right is constantly looking for an excuse to undermine the entire Russia investigation, pretending that the entire thing was based solely on the Steele dossier when it wasn't, and doing their best to undermine the dossier, even though core aspects of the dossier have indeed been verified.
They're also apparently still smarting from demands that former House Intel Committee chair Devin Nunes recuse himself, despite the fact that his recusal was pretty much a joke, which he never had any intention of honoring. The right was already demanding that current chair Adam Schiff recuse himself from any investigation of Russian collusion way back in 2017, simply because the ranking member was a supporter of Hillary Clinton.
Following an op-ed from one of The Hill's right-wing contributors, John Solomon, attacking Schiff for a brief meeting with Fusion GPS' Glenn Simpson during a security conference in Aspen last July, the wingnut outrage machine is out in full force, with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy using the meeting to again demand that Schiff recuse himself from the Russia investigation.
Shortly after the op-ed was published, Trump followed suit and went after Schiff on Twitter:......................
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Nunes is gone, so they're going to try to delegitimize the committee instead. (Original Post)
riversedge
Feb 2019
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manor321
(3,344 posts)1. John Solomon? HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
Always stop reading as soon as you see John Solomon's name.
pwb
(11,252 posts)2. More right wing crap from. the hill
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Leghorn21
(13,523 posts)3. Whassuppp, KEVIN
Theres two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump, McCarthy said in the recording of a June 15 exchange obtained and published by the Washington Post. At that point, House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) cut off the conversation and swore those present to secrecy.
Care to show us a tad of transparency on your remarks here or nah
FUCK
RIGHT
OFF
LOSER
agingdem
(7,805 posts)6. McCarthy's panties are in twist
because he and his useless compatriots have zero leverage..and..Schiff doesn't give a damn what McCarthy is demanding...a valuable lesson in what goes around comes around bitch!
wryter2000
(46,023 posts)4. These people need to be punished
Every time the say this sort of crap, which they know is BS, they need to be loudly mocked until they stop!
dem4decades
(11,270 posts)5. Call McCarthy to testify on his Trump was on Putin's payroll comment.
rsdsharp
(9,146 posts)7. Nunes isn't gone.
He's now the ranking member.