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turbinetree

(24,695 posts)
Sun May 17, 2020, 12:49 PM May 2020

It must be Sunday, so the nuts jobs get free air time..............

CNN’s Tapper forced to shut down and fact check GOPer Ron Johnson during Russia conspiracy rant

Published 1 min ago on May 17, 2020By Tom Boggioni



CNN “State of the Union” host Jake Tapper was forced to cut off Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) on Sunday morning after the Republican went off on a rant about Russian interference in the 2016 election.

In an interview that grew increasingly, contentious, Johnson tried to implicate former President Barack Obama in a broad conspiracy — what Donald Trump calls “Obamagate” — to destroy the Trump presidency before it even began.

“Something is amiss here,” Johnson stated. “Something was going wrong. I don’t know exactly what happened, we’re getting a clear picture of it. I think the chickens are coming home to roost.”

“What does that mean?” Tapper shot back. “Obviously there’s questions about FBI behavior, Peter Strzok was fired, Lisa Page resigned. James Comey is no longer on the scene. What are you alleging by the Obama administration? I have yet to see any facts at all supporting this grand conspiracy that the Trump administration is pushing,”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/cnns-tapper-forced-to-shut-down-and-fact-check-goper-ron-johnson-during-russia-conspiracy-rant/

So Idiot from Wisconsin, you want the press to basically make up your shit to justify whatever your trying to do, when the facts go in the opposite direction................ and by the way just for old time sake where were you last July 4, 2019...............Oh yeah your were having drinks in fucking Russia............and to top it all off asshole..............YOU voted to keep a person that clearly broke the law and the Constitution in power, and now zippy he and essentially you and your deflection game have over 90,000 + human beings dead on his abject failure to help this country...........YOU HAVE BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS........so let me be the first again to tell you, to go pound sand......

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It must be Sunday, so the nuts jobs get free air time.............. (Original Post) turbinetree May 2020 OP
Great photo of Johnson. CurtEastPoint May 2020 #1
I REALLY wish... UncleTomsEvilBrother May 2020 #2
And he ended up with "but her emails". They're going to ball up all their Clinton & Obama.. CousinIT May 2020 #3
I caught that this morning. I really don't understand this. underpants May 2020 #4
I think they realize they are screwed..........and Tapper should have been more forceful............ turbinetree May 2020 #5
Trump call in to the golf thing on TV today underpants May 2020 #6
Sounds like more gibberish from a lunatic................ turbinetree May 2020 #7
2. I REALLY wish...
Sun May 17, 2020, 01:05 PM
May 2020

...the DEMS would have a cadre of talking heads to unleash on Sundays. We're "better than that," though.

CousinIT

(9,241 posts)
3. And he ended up with "but her emails". They're going to ball up all their Clinton & Obama..
Sun May 17, 2020, 01:19 PM
May 2020

....conspiracy theories into one big shitshow (alleged plot) and toss it out on social media and regular media. The regular media will ensure some of it sticks no matter how ridiculous or untrue it is. Just like they did in 2016.

Since sHitler can't run on the economy or his pandemic response (maliciously sadistic), this must be their new modus operandi.

Pffft.

underpants

(182,789 posts)
4. I caught that this morning. I really don't understand this.
Sun May 17, 2020, 01:25 PM
May 2020

Tapper gave his vague BS right back to him. We all know this is the new But her emails.

I don’t understand this from their political standpoint. Clearly this was pre-packaged and ready to go. Barr to a Trump tweet to Fox News having wall to wall doesn’t just happen. Are they trying to diminish Obama before he hits the trail for Joe and other Dems? Are that all really that hitched to Trump that they are willing to make this Trump vs. Obama? How could that possibly help them with independents and voter turnout?
The simplest explanation I can think of is that Trump wants a WIN over Obama and yes they really are willing to go all in with him on that. Either that or it’s a Hail Mary because they know they are screwed.

turbinetree

(24,695 posts)
5. I think they realize they are screwed..........and Tapper should have been more forceful............
Sun May 17, 2020, 02:27 PM
May 2020

and the simple fact he and his cronies are abject failures, he has done nothing to help the country when it came to this catastrophe unfolding before our collective eyes..............he has BLOOD ON HIS HANDS..........and now they are trying to circle the wagons hoping that the deflection game being thrown up sticks, and if the media continues to bite at it..............then we are in deep (sh*t)..........Tapper should have said, you let him off............do you not take some responsibility for this debacle.................

underpants

(182,789 posts)
6. Trump call in to the golf thing on TV today
Sun May 17, 2020, 04:51 PM
May 2020

Didn’t know it was coming
But to normal soon
Should have known. Didn’t know.
Vaccine soon. Hopefully.

That was basically it.

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