Republican: "NYT has blood on their hands for reporting on russian bounties." - WTF?

[DetlefK]

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/republican-blasts-the-nyt-for-reporting-on-trumps-russia-scandal-the-blood-is-on-their-hands/

Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) defended President Donald Trump following a briefing on Russia paying bounties for the killing of U.S. troops.

Banks described the bombshell New York Times report as a “hit piece falsely accusing Trump of ignoring reports that Russia placed bounties on American soldiers in Afghanistan.”

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Banks argued that “the blood is on their hands” for reporting fatalities that had already occurred.

[malaise]

1. 128,000+ dead people because of the Con and ReTHUGs and this is their latest rant

Fuck off ReTHUGs!

[OnDoutside]

2. Oh, this should be good....

[jalan48]

3. One of the reasons it was Republicans only at the briefing. They can now put out an alternative

narrative to the original story.

[cayugafalls]

4. This will not work out well for them.

They are rowing a sinking boat.

The story is going to come out.

Dump is going down.

[Thekaspervote]

5. Dotard has gone from saying he wasn't briefed, to he was but it wasn't taken as serious

WHY would anyone let alone the president not take any intelligence of that nature seriously.

Lying sack of shit!!!

[spanone]

6. This is why they only briefed republicans.....circling the wagons again

[brush]

7. Guess that kind of logic runs in the repug party.

Don't report it and it doesn't exist.

Don't test and there will be no new cases.

[struggle4progress]

8. "It's a lot like testing for covid: soldiers don't actually die until somebody reports their deaths"

[Solly Mack]

9. Banks sounds like he is still fascinated with his own feet.

Toes! Whee!

[Wellstone ruled]

10. So,that did not take long.

Once again,the GOP Spin Machine is now attacking the NY Times . Same play book,just another Scandal.

[erronis]

12. I'm thinking putin's media/murder squad in the GRU/FSB are getting stale. Need new playbook.

Same techniques now being caught by any 11 year-old in the basement with a bit of natural-text-processing and some machine-learning.

Their murder squads are increasingly being caught by open-sourced groups matching information.

Maybe Pute should just try a bit of real openness, democracy, encouragement instead of fear.

Nah, he'd be piked.

[Wellstone ruled]

17. If you have ever followed

Malcolm Nance,you would see what the end game of Putin is. Putin is just another Stalinest (Dictator),he goal is to reestablish the USSR once again. And btw,there is a ton of payback in Putin's mind for how we destroyed the Russian economy as well as armed and gave intel to the Taliban who chased the Russian Army out of Afghanistan.

European and Asian Countries plan years in advance,we being Governed by the GOP plan only till maybe yesterday.

[erronis]

20. "governed by the GOP plan only till maybe yesterday". Yup - they yearn for the yesteryears.

Most of them would gladly climb back into some womb - back to fairy tales, chivalrous knights, happy peasants and slaves, obedient women.

There's got to be a cognitive disconnect between their thinking and reality.

Or else, they're faking it all.

Or both.

[Wellstone ruled]

21. As a Friend once said,

after spending forty years in Government,if this was any European or Asian Country,our Government would have changed hands,and this was during the Cheney Reign of terror.

[Mersky]

11. So spins a 'safe' republican from a deep red district

I’m not fooled as to why he’s carrying water for tRump.

The majority of Americans want answers about what tRump knew/did and when in regards to the bounty revelation. To put it mildly, distrust of tRump and his lot of enablers is well-founded. Any claims made after a partisan briefing are just framing/talking points used to get ahead of the story.

[roamer65]

13. This will be what's left of Trumplican party after the election.

Human filth like this deplorable.

[Walleye]

14. That's all they've got? Very weak.

[lpbk2713]

15. (R)s regard an informed public as a threat to their existence.

And the way things are going they won't exist much longer.

[ananda]

16. So reporting on deaths make you a murderer?

I guess I need to go back and learn Republican Logic 101.

[dewsgirl]

18. I bet this is one of the talking points they came up with this afternoon.

[budkin]

19. NO MORE OF THIS MADNESS

This HAS to end in November.