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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRachel Maddow Just Busted The [Grassley] Senate Republican Plan To Save Trump From The Russia Scan
I heard this tonight and my heart sank. Several weeks ago when this Grassley and Feinstein Senate Judiciary Comm was set up I was initially elated. But then I read a short sentence or two from Grassley and I went DRATS!!
I posted about it but honestly do not recall why I was upset about the specific of what Grassley had said at the time but I knew his agenda was not good, as it was aimed at proving the Russian documents were crap. Anyway--here it is--Grassley is going full speed at saving Trump (and trying to prove the Democrats are the evil).
I did a quick search and did not find anything about this except for Rachel (politico has an article but nothing Rachel talks about is in it.
Also, The Hill has a story but did not address Rachel's concerns. It is here:
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/senate-panel-subpoenas-co-founder-of-firm-tied-to-controversial-trump-dossier/ar-AAozy64
Rachel Maddow Just Busted The [Grassley] Senate Republican Plan To Save Trump From The Russia Scandal
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/07/21/rachel-maddow-busted-senate-republican-plan-save-trump-russia-scandal.html
By Jason Easley on Fri, Jul 21st, 2017 at 9:59 pm
Rachel Maddow blew up the Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman's scheme to save Donald Trump with conspiracy filled hearing on Wednesday.
Maddow said:
This thing that is about to happen on Wednesday that just got scheduled tonight. This is the thing that I have been saying was coming. This is the thing Ive been saying was coming from Congressional Republicans and Republicans who want to defend Donald Trump. Sen. Grassley has sent the subpoena tonight to head of Fusion GPS. He has canceled the testimony from Don Jr. and Paul Manafort and instead of hearing from them next week on the collusion issue, the Senate instead, will play host at a big open televised hearing to the big Republican pushback theory that they have been gearing up with, gearing up for on conservative media for a couple of weeks now.
This is the big push back in which they will claim that there is a Russian scandal, but its not a Trump/Russia scandal. Its the Democrats, and the dossier on Trump, thats the real Russia scandal. Thats from Russia, and the scandal is about Hillary Clinton and the Democrats. We have known this was coming. Now, as of tonight, we know it is arriving on Wednesday morning in the Senate, and the first subpoena has just gone out.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is the home base for the Republican defense of Trump on the Russia scandal in the Senate. People should have known that Grassley was going to pull a bait and switch...........................
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)Why the fusion guy was gonna take the 5th, and why they caved about the public testimony
TRAITORS!!!
Too bad, fuckers!
Yer in too deep already
The truth WILL out!
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)Your treasonous asses out of the fire
Unless, of course, you already have the machines and registration scamming wired and ready for 2018
atreides1
(16,079 posts)Then it means that Feinstein and Grassley are walking hand in hand down the garden path!
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)Ranking members have no power, pretty sure
If she signed on to that, words fail
Maraya1969
(22,480 posts)be charged with obstruction of justice too? That is exactly what he is doing.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)pirateshipdude
(967 posts)OnDoutside
(19,956 posts)I expected stuff like this from Grassley.
tirebiter
(2,536 posts)Putin has them ready at command and Grassley is quite ready and willing to engage in collusion.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)Are you a spy?
Or a girl delighter?
annabanana
(52,791 posts)How many people are going to "get" this?
bahrbearian
(13,466 posts)Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)Still have the first 4 vinyls
Follow the rubber line to your seat!
Mister Ed
(5,932 posts)I don't know whether to be proud or ashamed.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)HAB911
(8,891 posts)powerful gasoline, a clean windshield, and a shoeshine!" - Pastor Rod Flash
mitch96
(13,904 posts)and totally out of my mind...... but not that far out to remember that quote!!
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Don't Crush That Dwarf ... Hand Me The Pliers
Vinca
(50,271 posts)What's to stop someone from asking the Fusion person about the peepee video?
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)And from the Republican Party. Just last night a group on MSNBC said it's far too late and large to be stopped, though. Likely they hope to drag it out while they finally manage to use their power to accomplish some goals, like getting taxation and regulation off the backs of the wealthy.
I have such a bad memory but this is reminding me that last month someone actually gave documents needed for the JC investigation to the Senate Intelligence Committee instead because the JD couldn't be trusted. Comey? Pointed out by Rachel, I believe.
Akamai
(1,779 posts)Last edited Sat Jul 22, 2017, 09:32 AM - Edit history (1)
than Senate judiciary committee because -- according to Rachel -- less grandstanding by Republicans.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)Can't take watching all of it
I would like to see that, tho
Thx!
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)I was busy, then trying to listen while not falling asleep. Think it was earlier. But, though these are experienced people, it was opinion. I took heart from the statement but wouldn't bother looking for it.
My own opinion ( ) is that the White House and the worst of the congressional caucuses are stuffed with so many dysfunctional, profoundly dishonest and amoral fools who badly disrespect and underestimate the power and virtues of our republic that they can't help failing. We're watching rather spectacular evidence of just that.
Not coincidentally, after almost two decades of not buying Altemeyer's The Authoritarians because he published it free on line as a public service, I finally ordered and received a bound copy. There are other types of dangerous right wingers, of course, including authoritarian leaders, but reading it these days causes far more political names and faces to pop to mind than it did long ago. Scary, but if their potential for evil is potentially virtually unlimited, so is their capacity for competence.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)won't testify at hearing because he's going to be out of the country and if he did testify he'd plead the fifth.
Link to tweet
Not Ruth
(3,613 posts)octoberlib
(14,971 posts)her information. CNN just said that both Managort and Trump Jr. are testifying . In a closed session , though.
The Wizard
(12,545 posts)is a partisan Republican liar. He's one of the creeps who peddled the " Obama death panel" crap regarding the Affordable Care Act. Unlike others of his ilk he tells the truth about 10% of the time as opposed to lying all the time. He and his Party are anti American bums that should be purged from the landscape.
BumRushDaShow
(128,970 posts)January 12, 2017 / 12:32 AM / 6 months ago
Former MI6 spy known to U.S. agencies is author of reports on Trump in Russia
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Steele was initially hired by FusionGPS, a Washington-based political research firm, to investigate Trump on behalf of unidentified Republicans who wanted to stop Trump's bid for the party's nomination. The BBC said on Wednesday, "He (Steele) was compiling this report on behalf of initially Trump's opponent Jeb Bush," referring to one of Trump's 16 opponents in the 2016 Republican primary.
The BBC subsequently said on Thursday that its correspondent misspoke.
Bush's spokeswoman, Kristy Campbell, denied any involvement between Bush and Steele.
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"It is absolutely not true that Governor Bush had any knowledge or involvement with this gentleman and his allegations," Bush spokeswoman Kristy Campbell told Reuters by phone. "Its nothing weve ever seen before."
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-steele-idUSKBN14W0HN
BBC article. I still think the "Never Trump" and "Stop Trump" conservatives were very much associated with that dossier and once Drumpf got the nomination, frustration set in from Steele when no one seemed to want the info anymore.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)Last edited Sat Jul 22, 2017, 12:40 PM - Edit history (1)
TRUE
How do these liars keep their stories straight?
I know DT doesn't even try, but most of them still put up the pretense
Except her
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BumRushDaShow
(128,970 posts)Sir Patrick!
In this case, it could be that Grassley is trying to confirm who ordered this (and we know who it was but they want to try to link Democrats to it as well, while ignoring the "Stop Trump" and "Never Trump" PACs that originally funded it). If he delves too deeply, he might open up a hornet's nest that he wished he hadn't messed with.
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)Sounds like he's on haldol most of the time
Or continuous TIAs
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)annabanana
(52,791 posts)please proceed.
FakeNoose
(32,639 posts)...but the report was written by the guy who's a true British spy.
Steele sifted the info from of his previously written reports concerning what happened in Moscow the past couple of years before Trump was a candidate. Nobody tracked his activities before Cheeto became a candidate, but they were significant.
The British government had all of this info ALREADY! So do the Germans and at least one or 2 other spy agencies. We're the last to hear any of this about the Trump and Putin collusion. Names, dates and places are given in the dossier. However they've been blacked out of the version that we get to see.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)And what, say Bush and McCain work for the Clintons?
Didn't the new Sessions leak reinforce the Steele dossier? Someone might be reacting too quickly for not-briefed-in Grassley if this imagined scenario has substance.n Which I doubt.
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Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)Where'd you find that?
Some lists!
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Isn't this the text of Mueller's "request" to the White House preserve all messages related to Trump Jr.'s meeting?
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)Getting nervous about headlong rush to fascism
Hugin
(33,140 posts)discredit the Steele Dossier (whether it's true or not) and then proclaim loudly.
LOOK! LOOK! SEE HERE! THERE WAS NOTHING THERE! IT IS ALL FAKE! in an attempt to discredit the whole Collusion investigations everywhere and to justify stopping any further investigation.
However, the Steele Dossier wasn't the only investigation... The US and several Foreign ICs had their own intelligence which indicated there was collusion and they were only comparing what appeared in their own intelligence with what was in the Dossier looking for verification of the Dossier. Not as the Republicans would have you believe the other way around.
None of this matters, anyway. They've already got a damn good case of Obstruction-of-Justice on Don Quistupidy among other high crimes. Plenty to impeach and convict him of if someone would just, DO IT!
Meanwhile, Twitterstiltskin is already TODAY undermining Grassley's efforts with his idiotic tweets.
emulatorloo
(44,124 posts)While Ignoring the fact that Steele's Russian sources were Russian whistleblowers exposing the Russian Govt.
Also ignoring the fact that never Trumpers were who got the ball rolling on the Steele Dossier. Possibly associates of Jeb!
As I see it, "Dems colluded w Russia!1!" is the headline Grassley's going for. Will fool Trump's base, but will probably backfire on him bigly.
Hugin
(33,140 posts)Shotgunning everything they think they've got out there in desperation hoping something, anything hits it's mark.
Muddying-the-waters in the process.
Desperation seems to be how the Republicans have been operating lately on constant clean-up-on-aisle-4 mode right behind the Buttocks-In-Chief and his spawn.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Egnever
(21,506 posts)This will all be revealed again. I don't see how this makes Hillary the fall guy.
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)Grassley has betrayed the country
Allowing Kushner and Manafort to merely provide docs (and maybe testify at some time in the future) and going after the Steele Dossier funding source.
Drumph is getting the toadies to fall in line with his corruption.
Looks like he will sack Sessions and appoint a lacky to fire Mueller.
We are now fully locked into a fascist state.
Time to form a Blue Guard.
pirateshipdude
(967 posts)I knew Grassley was not all of a sudden going to get down t the bottom of anything. Thanks for the information.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Another fucking republican traitor!
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Seems like he won't last that long at this point. How many gaskets did he blow last night?
Link to tweet
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