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I posted another thread with my first reaction to Kimmel's monologue tonight, but didn't have time to add details because I was watching Twitter reaction and looking for an article and/or video.
Both here, from Deadline:
http://deadline.com/2018/02/jimmy-kimmel-blasts-donald-trump-devin-nunez-paul-ryan-fbi-memo-robert-mueller-video-1202276887/
This is a memo written by Devin Nunes, a Republican Congressman from California that claims the FBI overstepped their surveillance of Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page in a very obvious attempt to paint the FBI as biased against Trump and to discredit the work of Special Counsel Mueller, Kimmel told viewers.
This is how our government works now: If your party is in charge, you can lie, you can cheat, you can game the system to benefit your buddies, you can basically do whatever you want, he said.
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Much more in the article, lots of quotes, but here's the video, found via the article:
highplainsdem
(48,994 posts)dalton99a
(81,513 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,349 posts)Dayum! Tell it Kimmel. (And give your writers a raise).
pangaia
(24,324 posts)blogslut
(38,001 posts)Good for Jimmy and good for all.
Cha
(297,275 posts)simple if any trumphans happened to be watching.. and for those who haven't been paying as much attention.
Thank you, Jimmy Kimmel and highplainsdem
Release the Tax Returns, Crooked Elite trumphuck.
radius777
(3,635 posts)as they can influence people who aren't that political. That is where elections often are won and lost, on the simple memes/frames people know from these shows.