GOP leader: It was 'rightful' for Trump administration to break the law

[turbinetree]

By Dan Desai Martin -January 16, 2020 2:37 PM

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy defended the Trump administration after a GAO investigation found it broke the law.

During a Thursday press conference, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy attempted to brush aside a GAO investigation that found the Trump administration broke the law by withholding military aid from Ukraine.

"I think it was the rightful thing to do," McCarthy said hours after the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office released a report calling those actions illegal.

McCarthy repeated Trump administration talking points defending holding back the aid out of concerns for corruption, a concern that was debunked by the GAO report itself.

The GAO concluded the Trump administration's hold on Ukrainian military aid violated the Impoundment Control Act.

https://americanindependent.com/kevin-mccarthy-donald-trump-ukraine-gao-investigation-military-aid-house-gop-impeachment/

No asshole is not alright to try and normalize your traitors criminal behavior.....................and to think asshole you are in Congress supposedly defending the "rule of law and laws that were passed to protect the country from this kinda of shit............your a disgrace to put it mildly ........

November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough..........................

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. America was a fun experiment, its over. Surely we understand NO election can fix

65 million voters who want their leaders to BREAK THE LAW so they win?

[turbinetree]

2. Yepper spot on....................

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. Thanks...I remember being SCREAMED at here for calling rump a traitor.

Or suggesting cons want us dead.

They want all non-them gone, they do NOT care how.

Does anyone reading this board STILL doubt that statement? And if you say how could one family member want another gone or dead, trust me, cons dont really care about family when it comes to their racism and hate of others.

They will throw you under the bus so fast your head will do the mariachi...

[Turin_C3PO]

5. It's not over.

We had a blue wave in 2018 and we’ll have a bigger one in 2020. A lot of mischief has been prevented because Democrats have the House of Representatives. Once we get the Senate and Presidency, we can correct much of the damage Trump has inflicted on us. I believe.

[Eliot Rosewater]

7. Maybe not, but there sure as hell better be a SENSE OF URGENCY, as in if Joe Biden

is the nominee, for instance, or for that matter Bernie Sanders, everyone better at least ACT like they are the 2nd coming...or we are doomed for sure.

[Turin_C3PO]

18. Very true.

All hands need to be on deck for us to prevail.

[Cosmocat]

10. YEP

Even if we somehow can root this POS out of the white house by the start of next year, the damage done by the republican party can never even remotely be repaired.

[struggle4progress]

14. Resistance is futile!

[Ahpook]

19. I've heard this sentiment before

The explanation is the best person is in regardless of broken laws. You can't argue with that kind of mindset. Fucking lost!

They know not what they are asking for if this keeps up

[tblue37]

3. K&R for visibility. nt

[Newest Reality]

6. The irony...

The irony is getting to be rather painful. The erosion and corrosion and confusion seems to be working, though.

[Aussie105]

8. Republican thinking at it's best.

Honestly, all previous rules, laws and even the Constitution are now null and void.

Trump will tell you what to do, what to think, what the new rules are.

So be good sheeple and follow our lead, ok? Don't think, just follow orders.

Not going to work though, is it? Too many good people going 'Hell no, this shit isn't happening to MY COUNTRY!'

The smell of Revolution and Change is in the air! Time for every American to wake up and know this has gone too far, too long, and the invertebrate life forms that make up the majority of the Republican party need to be forced to slither back under their rocks. And stay there!

[FiveGoodMen]

9. All the terrorists who shoot up crowds or run people down with trucks or blow up buildings ...

...think it's the "rightful" thing to do.

Send the GOP to Gitmo and forget them there.

[Aussie105]

11. Gitmo? Yep!

No rule against locking up political terrorists in Gitmo. They are operating within the US, otherwise no different to outside terrorists.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

12. Republicans would be perfectly happy with an imperial presidency so long as.....

that president is a Republican. In other parts of the world, their concepts would be called fascism.

And, if he/she is a Democrat, the office must be neutered and symbolic only - giving out medals, lighting the Christmas tree and such only.

We can't be rid of this slimy hoard of minions fast enough......

[coti]

13. Their argument of last resort is to try to justify corruption. nt

[bluestarone]

15. Republicon laws?

I will NEVER accept them!!!

[lpbk2713]

16. Same as "It's OK to shoot someone on 5th Avenue"

They have always thought they were above the law.

[Midnight Writer]

17. Tempting to believe in McCarthy's ignorance, but he is the one who said Trump is on Russian payroll.

He knew Trump was a snake when he let him in.

And when he defends Trump, McCarthy knows full well what he is doing is not "rightful".