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Senators pushing the Russian Ukraine hoax despite classified briefing from IC. Grassley and Johnson.
On edit- elleng posted about the NYT story b/4 I did https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016242934
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,695 posts)Only two things can be possible: (1) the senators have chosen not to believe the intelligence agencies because they want to believe the falsehoods for their own and Trump's purposes, or (2) they believe the intelligence agencies' briefing but have decided to push this disinformation to the public anyhow, probably to stay in the good graces of Fat Nixon and the MAGAt base.
Either possibility is appalling.
TwilightZone
(25,471 posts)I think they know our intelligence agencies are right, but push the narrative anyway for political purposes.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Perseus
(4,341 posts)They are implicated, they have been compromised with Russian money laundered through the NRA.
LenaBaby61
(6,974 posts)ru$kie assets.
ALL OF THEM.
Speak up those of you who aren't, and prove me WRONG.
OliverQ
(3,363 posts)I feel like there is no way out of this. An entire party is committing treason against the United States to benefit Russia and we have no way to stop them other than hoping in a year, they get voted out and most of them won't due to demographics.
elleng
(130,908 posts)Good thing: Heard from daughter, so will have pre-Thanksgiving with her, son-in-law, + 2 little kids tomorrow, so that's good, and will open Grand Marnier after Rachel.
rzemanfl
(29,557 posts)GreenPartyVoter
(72,377 posts)Woodycall
(259 posts)It's part of an international and interconnected web of organized crime. Spread this message please. Because it's the truth.
bdamomma
(63,849 posts)are traitors, Putin is taking us down, and tRump is getting his marching orders everyday from Putin. Repigs have sold our country to the Russians.
ariadne0614
(1,729 posts)We are all Paul Revere now.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)targetpractice
(4,919 posts)If Trump is impeached the Republican party is destroyed for a generation... This is their last desperate grasp to hold onto power. They don't care how history will portray them. If they lose they are completely toast. If they win, then maybe they can shape some kind of recovery narrative, and continue to transfer wealth from all of us to their patrons and offspring.
rzemanfl
(29,557 posts)elleng
(130,908 posts)things work differently than in the past.
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)Before they go home for the holidays. Republican Senators are spewing bullshit so their base wont pressure them to be critical of Trump. They are scared of Trump and they are scared of Putin. The last thing they want to do is vote Trump out, and their brainwashed base can give them political cover via the crap just fed to them.