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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOh, Lordy, Chris Wallace played the TAPES for Mick Mulvaney..."You totally said that!"
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/10/you-totally-said-that-mulvaney-melts-down-as-chris-wallace-plays-tape-of-quid-pro-quo-admission/
Thats not what I said, thats what people said I said, Mulvaney pleaded. Heres what I said there were two reasons that we held up the aid.
I believe that anyone listening to what you said in that briefing room can come to one conclusion, Wallace explained before replaying the tape of Mulvaney.
Go back and watch what I said before that, Mulvaney begged.
You totally said that, Wallace quipped. You said what you said, and the fact is, after you had that exchange with [ABCs] Jonathan Karl you didnt mention two conditions, you mentioned three conditions.
At that point, Wallace forced Mulvaney to watch tape of himsel
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)I just hope there are more very damaging tapes of the mafia don locked in that vaulted server. Sure would be a shame if someone leaked them, or stole them.
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)Mulvaney wasn't bugged or coerced or manipulated...he simply came out at the press conference swingin' Little Mick, and then trampled all over him. And, for emphasis (and $$$) the Trump campaign immediately sold "Get Over It" t-shirts.
EVERYBODY WINS! Trump makes some cash, and the House has significantly more ammo in its impeachment inquiry.
yonder
(9,678 posts)engage in some sort of Gish gallop contest. Not sure who would win that one. That speed yammering they do just polishes the turds they try to push.
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)Radical bircher, repuglinazi.
SuprstitionAintthWay
(386 posts)Ideal fashion choice on his part.
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)people making their kind of money would be able to afford a decent tailor. Mick's jacket was loose enough around the collar to fit another neck in there. What a pathetic little man. tRump does not get the best or the brightest. He gets the DREGS after the decent, intelligent people are in the democratic party.
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)The best never interact with him, avoid any situation where there'd be the remotest possiblility they'd cross paths with him.
Rumpf magnetizes all the freaks, goofs, losers, mutant criminals. Those are his people.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)He reminds me of this guy from "Raiders of the Lost Arc". I'd like to see his face melt off.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)OMG, you're right! That's hysterical!
The was a memorable scene when his face melted...
superpatriotman
(6,252 posts)Truth is the Ark of the Covenant to redpillers
PatrickforO
(14,592 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,778 posts)The Wizard
(12,549 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)Russel: So what you said last week about no story, youre a little flexible on that now.
George: Is-is that what I said no story? Because Jerry had to tell me later.
Jerry: He couldnt believe it.
George: I said, I said: Get outta here! No story? Is that what I said?
ClusterFreak
(3,112 posts)Leave it to George to put things in perspective!
Mulvaney might also add another classic George line, with a twist...."Was that wrong? Should I not have said that? Because if I had any idea that kind of thing was frowned upon..." etc. etc.
Evolve Dammit
(16,778 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)rolling over them as they did a while ago.
Nitram
(22,892 posts)evidence is presented against it. I don't know how they can stand before the public and just keep repeating the same lies over and over again.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)at people screaming "I never said that."
Keith Olbermann.
God I miss you, Keith. PLEASE come back to us. We need your take on things. You always presented your material straight and true, usually with a savage wit. How I miss that wit.
DBoon
(22,397 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,330 posts)this is probably the first time Fox News viewers have seen a replay of that tape. It seems like MSNBC has been playing it multiple times an hour since the actual event.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)show up for "work" tomorrow, or if he has already been canned? He should have taken a leaf out of Stephen Miller's book, stay out of sight. Do your dirty work, but keep hidden. Not too bright, is he?
empedocles
(15,751 posts)traitortrump's lies are intended to be seen on rw media - what is important to trumpsters is how it plays on rw media
LenaBaby61
(6,979 posts)This low-down, dirty skunk is STILL saying that he didn't say what he said on the tape
It's laughable, but extremely frightening in this way: It took most in the news media almost 3 years to catch up to the out and out LIES this administration told and continues to tell, yet I will BET a dollar to a dozen of doughnuts that if/when a Dem administration takes the reigns of power again, it'll be grilled incessantly even for the most minor of mistakes. THEIR feet held to the fires of HELL. Not that an administration shouldn't be above board, fourth-right and honest with the American people, but I think that this corporate media will over-correct in a big way on the backs of a Dem administration, and on the Backs of a Dem POTUS
ET Awful
(24,753 posts)sakabatou
(42,176 posts)PatrickforO
(14,592 posts)He looks like a Nazi party member trying to deny complicity at Nuremberg.
Hangdog Slim
(81 posts)AG Barr will be making his way up to Fox HQ again.
EveHammond13
(2,855 posts)cutroot
(876 posts)Normally their little cloud is kept afloat by the twisted logic that they are fed on a daily basis.
A republican coworker of mine was caught stealing on video. Even as they were showing him the tape he denied it. He returned to work the next day and found all of his personal belongings in a box by the door. He acted as if everything that he had been caught doing was some kind of imaginary deception that we had cooked up to harass him. He of course sued the company but could not find an attorney to represent him. The judge laughed at him when all of the evidence was presented, but he still refused to believe that he had been caught red handed.
The company was just happy to be rid of him so they did not charge him with the theft. Petty thievery decreased to zero the day he left.
Mr.Bill
(24,330 posts)who even now will blow off the whole impeachment inquiry by saying it is illegal without a vote and anyway, everything the whistleblower said was hearsay and not admissible in court.
47of74
(18,470 posts)I had the misfortune of working with some over the years who didnt have the good sense to check their politics at the lobby entrance.
One place I worked at there were two of these guys. They both eventually left and things became a lot better after they were gone.
calimary
(81,507 posts)Youre fucking DONE, Mulvaney.
Youre done. Finished. You climbed all the way into the White House and thats gonna be as far as you get. Youre such damaged goods after this video confessional that you better plan to retire to some secluded location, write a book or something, and not try to go high-profile ever again. You need to slink away into the shadows and stay there, and hope to God the law (or karma) doesnt come after you, too.
Mr.Bill
(24,330 posts)But he won't have a chance against a Ted Nugent/Sarah Palin ticket.
calimary
(81,507 posts)tblue37
(65,490 posts)budkin
(6,717 posts)LOVE to see Wallace rub his face in it!
Backseat Driver
(4,399 posts)Buttttt...
OTOH: I do have questions about Mulvaney's "they do it all the time." Who they? How does this bipartisan letter not rise to quid pro quo pressure that apparently did get sort of a positive response. Note date and signers...That guy's now serving a 50-week sentence, that will end there or about 6 months before our General Election...Is there a political advantage here in such timing; I'm assuming release would be followed by time required to obtain US extradition???
https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/_cache/files/a/8/a8a63343-fba7-4ea6-8090-5fb3d9f5d3de/7B8CEDB7545C8C99DEDB0AC0931C9873.10-16-2018-letter-from-engel-ros-lehtinen-to-president-of-ecuador.pdf
blaze
(6,374 posts)underpants
(182,904 posts)Done
RainCaster
(10,923 posts)People haven't focused on that, and they should. This kind of corruption is something that they do all the time.
Mr.Bill
(24,330 posts)ClearSky24
(236 posts)That was hard to watch.
wnylib
(21,615 posts)Tim Russert. He was sooo good at what Wallace just did to Mulvaney. Russert called people on things they said or did and then had the tapes as back up when they tried to deny or fudge the facts. We desperately need more media people today like Russert.