A very bright young man
Republicans in Congress are assuring us there’s nothing to see here, move along.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, said any time you’re in a campaign and you get an offer from a foreign government the answer is “no.”
Some Republicans — including Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley — defended Trump Jr.’s tweet as an example of transparency.
“I think the transparency is the proper thing to do and I think he’s shown that he wants everybody to know what the situation is, as I have found them on so many stories since the election,” Grassley told CNN.
Ah yes the transparency! So transparent, very forthcoming, much clarity. That’s why he told us all about it right after the New York Times told us all about it. It just doesn’t get any more transparent than that.
Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah described Trump Jr. as “a very bright young man,” but not a member of his father’s administration. He responded to Kaine’s accusations of treason with, “You got to be kidding.”
“He’s not in the administration,” Hatch said. “He may be the son of the president but he doesn’t have the authority to speak for the president. Look, I think this is overblown.”
Oh yes, definitely, Trump obviously keeps his adult children scrupulously separate from his presidency.
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Picture a Clinton 2016 victory. Picture mid 2017, and Chelsea Clinton reveals that she’d chatted up some ISIS reps with supposed damaging material on Trump last year.
Now, picture Republicans in Congress praising her transparency and dismissing it as no big deal.
I’ll wait for you to take some headache meds, or clear the beverage off your keyboards.
Hypocrisy, lying, stealing, and cheating are the core principles of the modern GOP.
That’s true. It is transparency. he transparently admitted his crime. To get this kind of unbidden admission you usually have to watch Perry Mason or law and Order. Criminals don’t usually come right out, being that transparent. Now if only congress and the justice department weren’t so blindly opaque.
So the test for Treason is now whether or not you are officially part of the administration. No private citizen can commit treason.
Even if that were true (I don’t think the Republicans are about to embrace Manning, Winner or Snowden), are they going to pretend that no other crime has been committed, or even that if there is no crime this is how politics should be conducted?
It’s clear that the only thing that matters to the Republican party now is power and control. They’ve long since lost any sense of morals or principles and now they can’t even be bothered pretending otherwise. They want, and intend to create, a one party state.