Rachel Maddow Asks One Question That Destroys The Trump-GOP Smear Campaign Against The FBI

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Posted on Thu, Jul 12th, 2018 by Sean Colarossi
Rachel Maddow Asks One Question That Destroys The Trump-GOP Smear Campaign Against The FBI


With one question on Thursday, Rachel Maddow completely destroyed the Trump-GOP conspiracy theory that the FBI was working in 2016 to hurt Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

If that was the bureau’s intent, Maddow asked, then why didn’t they come forward during the campaign and tell the American people that there was a good possibility the Republican nominee for president was coordinating with a foreign adversary to influence the election?

The MSNBC host called the GOP’s inability to answer that question a “foundationally awkward thing” that completely undercuts the Republican Party’s smear campaign against the FBI.

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Maddow said:

The Republican case against Peter Strzok, them defining him as enemy number one. The way they have made him subject to public pillory is by claiming that his work on the Russia investigation was motivated purely by his partisan wish to hurt the presidential campaign of Donald Trump. If that’s the case then, honestly, why didn’t he or anybody else at the FBI tell the public at any point before the election that Donald Trump’s campaign was, in fact, the subject of a very serious counterintelligence investigation? If the whole thing was motivated by bias to try to make sure Trump didn’t get elected, then why didn’t they tell the American public that Trump shouldn’t be elected? It’s awkward, right? It is a foundationally awkward thing.

The Republican Party is desperate

The behavior of Republican lawmakers on Thursday made it clear that they had no intention of using their hearing to gather facts. Instead, they were using Peter Strzok as the latest punching bag in their ongoing effort to discredit the FBI.

If the GOP truly cared about getting to the bottom of important matters, they’d be focusing their time and energy on Russia’s interference in the 2016 election – and whether the Trump campaign was directly involved in that meddling.

But, sadly, the Republican Party under Donald Trump doesn’t know the first thing about putting country before political affiliation – especially when they know their president is in a boatload of legal trouble.

The entire GOP effort to paint the FBI and Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation as the enemy has always been a sham. Thursday’s hearing only further confirmed that.

[The Genealogist]

1. Basically...

They put the elephant next to their name on the ballot over the flag they so eagerly fetishize and weaponize. Their priorities are clear. Party over country, gravy train over country, Trump over country.

[Vinca]

2. That's what it boils down to.

The sincerity and enthusiasm the GOP has for a totally ludicrous notion - the FBI withheld investigation info on Don, but blabbed it on Hillary for the purpose of helping Hillary - makes them all eligible for the rubber room.

[lindysalsagal]

3. They all took russian oligarch money and now they'll do and say anything to muddy the waters.

The entire GOP is acting on behalf of Putin.

The solution is to remove outside money from elections.

[dhill926]

4. they're only trying too save themselves....

they are desperate and will do ANYTHING to stay in power. These are dangerous times....

[Lonestarblue]

5. Russians also hacked RNC servers.

Nothing has ever been released from that hack, so I wonder whether the bizarre Republican behavior on Mueller’s investigation has more to do with what those emails might show than fear of Trump’s base. Wouldn’t it be fabulous to have those emails released to the public so we all could read about their actions with and for Russia! The media never brings up the fact that U.S. intelligence knows that the RNC was hacked along with the DNC. They should be making the point that Russia released only the Clinton campaign emails in support of Trump. I wonder if Mueller has access to those emails or if the RNC deleted them all immediately after the hack. That’s what they did with the 22 million secret emails during the Bush administration’s plotting on the Iraq war.