Most Ridiculous Bald Faced Lie Of The Day: Richard Burr "I Don't Recall Anybody Asking Loretta Lynch

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Absolutely UN-F@#ING BELIEVABLE.

With the f-ing PANDEMIC of lying, gasslighting, and flooding the airwaves with alternative facts, it's a pretty tough call to pin the MOST ridiculous lie to any one person; but I think today's prize has to go to Republican Richard Burr, chairman of the Intelligence Committee.

When asked if Attorney General Jeff Sessions should RECUSE himself from investigations into Flynn et al. colluding with Russia during the election, the blowhard actually had the nerve to say....

"I don't recall anybody asking Loretta Lynch to recuse herself after she spent some time on an airplane with Bill Clinton..."

No, that's right, peckerhead. Nobody except THE ENTIRE F-ING REPUBLICAN PARTY, and all of their imps and goblins in the right wing noise machine, who screamed about it for an entire month.

http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/286202-lynch-pressured-to-recuse-herself-after-clinton-tarmac-meeting


For example...

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) said in a statement on Thursday calling for Lynch to recuse herself.

“Given the culture of unaccountability in the Obama Administration, it is unlikely that Attorney General Lynch will heed the growing calls for her resignation,” he said. “But at a minimum, Lynch should immediately recuse herself from the Justice Department's criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton’s unlawful activities, and appoint a special prosecutor to handle the case, so the American people can know the truth about this secret meeting and finally rest assured the criminal investigation of Hillary Clinton is being conducted fully and impartially, without even the appearance of corruption.”

And...

To Republicans, the episode reeked of impropriety and proved Lynch is unfit to oversee the Hillary Clinton email probe, which many thought would have been resolved months ago.

John Cornyn (Texas), the Senate’s No. 2 Republican, has repeatedly called for Lynch to appoint a special prosecutor to oversee the Clinton investigation. On Thursday, he reiterated the demand.

Richard Burr (Stock photo)

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. And yet that is now the truth, since the right will believe it without question.

Culture of unaccountability in Obama administration..

dear god, help us...

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2. there is no shortage of outrage I feel toward the republics

My thesis is those R leaders not calling for an independent investigation of Russia's hacks and ties to Trump are complicit. Recall the GOP DID help Trump win, so some GOPers surely knew of the Russian communiques early on. Maybe they even set up meetings betwn Trump and the Russian ambassador or whoever.

Why else would they fight an indep. investigation with all these leaks coming out?

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3. Lynch didn't recuse herself. Should Sessions? n/t

[TrollBuster9090]

4. She announced ahead of the FBI investigations that she'd accept their recommendation.

Which is virtually the same thing.

However, to answer your question, she didn't appoint a special prosecutor, and didn't FULLY recuse herself; and she was wrong not to. She should have had the common sense to stay away from Bill Clinton, but since she didn't, and handed the GOP a publicity victory, she should have at least had the common sense to recuse herself from the investigation completely.

That being said, there's an order of magnitude difference between the two allegations. One is petty corruption for money and carelessness with government correspondence, the other is collusion with a hostile power to undermine the democratic foundations of the United States.

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5. I agree that she should have recused herself, and I believe that Sessions should as well.

As far as recusing yourself goes, it's like being pregnant, it's either "yes" or "no", there's not some threshold below which a conflict of interests should be acceptable. Clinton's investigation wasn't just about petty corruption for money either.

[TrollBuster9090]

6. I'm glad we're in agreement. I thought Lynch was, overall, a good AG, but seriously...

but seriously, she should have shown better judgement. And so should a lot of people in the Clinton campaign.