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global1

(25,242 posts)
Sun Sep 29, 2019, 12:19 PM Sep 2019

A Couple Of Incidents The Dems Need To Talk About And Drive Home When The Now Circling The Wagons...

Repugs try and protect Trump from impeachment. The Dems need to drive home these points. They need to use these incidents to refute any of the lies and the obfuscation that the Repugs are throwing up now to protect Trump.

Here they are:

1. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell stopped the Obama administration from speaking out about Russian interference in the 2016 campaign by refusing to sign on to a bipartisan statement of condemnation.

2. A month before Donald Trump clinched the Republican nomination, one of his closest allies in Congress — House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy — made a politically explosive assertion in a private conversation on Capitol Hill with his fellow GOP leaders: that Trump could be the beneficiary of payments from Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,” McCarthy (R-Calif.) said, according to a recording of the June 15, 2016, exchange, which was listened to and verified by The Washington Post. Paul Ryan shut him down by saying something to the effect that 'We need to keep this in the family'.

3. The negative comments about Trump from the clown car of Repug Presidential Primary candidates during the Repug Primary debates. The Dems need to say - "This is what these Repugs really think about Trump". There are countless clips and sound bites from these Repug opponents of Trump that can be strung together to show how Trump was thought of by the Repug Party before he won the primary and became their candidate.

Upon edit: These same former candidates that criticized Trump back then need to be asked why they now protect Trump and what caused them to change their minds about Trump?

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A Couple Of Incidents The Dems Need To Talk About And Drive Home When The Now Circling The Wagons... (Original Post) global1 Sep 2019 OP
Excellent advice, and good points. guillaumeb Sep 2019 #1
Very good points indeed!! Thx Thekaspervote Sep 2019 #2
In an e-mail KT McFarland wrote denbot Sep 2019 #3
What!? mikeysnot Sep 2019 #4
Here ya go denbot Sep 2019 #5
Thank You! mikeysnot Sep 2019 #6

denbot

(9,899 posts)
3. In an e-mail KT McFarland wrote
Sun Sep 29, 2019, 02:03 PM
Sep 2019

“They should reassure Russia now that they threw the election to Trump”.

Traitors, every fucking one.

mikeysnot

(4,756 posts)
6. Thank You!
Mon Sep 30, 2019, 11:59 AM
Sep 2019

So much bullshit so little time to keep track of it all. And to think Acorn was de-funded and disbanded for registering voters that "voted" for President Obama.

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