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sunonmars

(8,656 posts)
Thu Oct 22, 2020, 08:03 AM Oct 2020

Schumer says Ratcliffe is lying, told Senators something completely different




Leader Schumer says that DNI Ratcliffe shared different information in a classified briefing with senators than he did in the press conference last night. Ratcliffe told senators Iran election influence was not designed to hurt one candidate.

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We knew he was lying.
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Schumer says Ratcliffe is lying, told Senators something completely different (Original Post) sunonmars Oct 2020 OP
Well, there's a surprise. Sherman A1 Oct 2020 #1
It would only be notable if a truth actually came out of this administration or its cronies. CentralMass Oct 2020 #2
And yet silence from the GOPs . . Iliyah Oct 2020 #3
Kicking with disgust Mike 03 Oct 2020 #4
I think this Ratcliffe garbage was agingdem Oct 2020 #5
I agree duforsure Oct 2020 #7
+1 uponit7771 Oct 2020 #9
tRump gave him "a talkin to" and he's more interested in keeping his job then his reputation. nt yaesu Oct 2020 #6
RATcliffe didn't pass the sniff test!...Mainly because his "speech" didn't make any sense. Not Illumination Oct 2020 #8
Lie bigger, lie harder, lie faster, you assholes. BKDem Oct 2020 #10
Another day another dozen lies. NoRoadUntravelled Oct 2020 #11
You know musclecar6 Oct 2020 #12
Some are greedily happy with their stock portfolio. I know a few of them. SammyWinstonJack Oct 2020 #21
Wray was the one to watch in that presser bucolic_frolic Oct 2020 #13
It was plain as day. dalton99a Oct 2020 #14
His discomfort was so obvious PatSeg Oct 2020 #16
It's a classic case of a republicans lips are moving, therefore he/she is of course lying. Augiedog Oct 2020 #15
Well, after all, what happens in our country is none of our damn business. Dark n Stormy Knight Oct 2020 #17
Ratcliffe is an unqualified Trump loyalist, resume embellisher and former ambulance chaser lawyer honest.abe Oct 2020 #18
Oh God, RobinA Oct 2020 #19
The fact that the Administration equates an attack on voters by applegrove Oct 2020 #20

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
1. Well, there's a surprise.
Thu Oct 22, 2020, 08:06 AM
Oct 2020

someone hired by Trump lying.............who would have thought such could occur?

agingdem

(7,756 posts)
5. I think this Ratcliffe garbage was
Thu Oct 22, 2020, 08:43 AM
Oct 2020

intended to be the 2020 equivalent of the Comey news conference that took down Hillary..but it came across as a vague nonsensical attempt to frame Trump as some sort of heroic victim...this is an SNL skit that writes itself!

duforsure

(11,882 posts)
7. I agree
Thu Oct 22, 2020, 08:55 AM
Oct 2020

Trump just using Radcliffe as another prop hiding the truth, and people already aren't buying it this time, and more running from him for this .

 

Illumination

(2,458 posts)
8. RATcliffe didn't pass the sniff test!...Mainly because his "speech" didn't make any sense. Not
Thu Oct 22, 2020, 08:58 AM
Oct 2020

to Rachel Maddow either. It shouldn't be acceptable to constantly lie to the American people. We can do much better than this garbage leadership!...

BKDem

(1,733 posts)
10. Lie bigger, lie harder, lie faster, you assholes.
Thu Oct 22, 2020, 09:49 AM
Oct 2020

Your con is doomed.

Nobody but your brain-dead base is buying it

musclecar6

(1,681 posts)
12. You know
Thu Oct 22, 2020, 10:20 AM
Oct 2020


What amazes me is how so many in this country still can't see through these awful incompetent hateful people. This should be a slamdunk where 90% plus of the people in this country can't wait to vote this asshole out.

SammyWinstonJack

(44,129 posts)
21. Some are greedily happy with their stock portfolio. I know a few of them.
Fri Oct 23, 2020, 08:23 AM
Oct 2020
They simply do not care about anything else.

bucolic_frolic

(42,672 posts)
13. Wray was the one to watch in that presser
Thu Oct 22, 2020, 10:36 AM
Oct 2020

Didn't look up from his prepared remarks. Talked in a cadenced monotone. Bobbled his head. Maybe it was a way of avoiding questions. But he didn't look happy.

Dark n Stormy Knight

(9,760 posts)
17. Well, after all, what happens in our country is none of our damn business.
Thu Oct 22, 2020, 11:09 AM
Oct 2020

As long as Rs are in power, anyway. One more example of why we need to boot out the Crooked Drrumpf Admin.

honest.abe

(8,556 posts)
18. Ratcliffe is an unqualified Trump loyalist, resume embellisher and former ambulance chaser lawyer
Thu Oct 22, 2020, 11:13 AM
Oct 2020
Perhaps the clearest sign that three-term Texas congressman Ratcliffe is manifestly unqualified to serve as the nation’s director of national intelligence isn’t the fact that he embellished his résumé, nor that only a minority of the US Senate would vote to confirm him, nor that the first time he was floated for the post last summer he was so soundly rejected that he withdrew almost immediately.

Instead, it’s that years before just 49 senators of the 116th Congress—all Republicans—voted to confirm him last week as the head of the nation’s 17 intelligence agencies and the president’s top intelligence adviser, the 108th Congress tried to stop a man like Ratcliffe from assuming that very role in the first place. They wrote into the law that created the job, 50 US Code § 3023, “Any individual nominated for appointment as Director of National Intelligence shall have extensive national security expertise.”

A longtime personal injury and medical malpractice lawyer, Ratcliffe once told his law school alumni magazine, “I just wanted to hang out my shingle and start making money.” He served a decade as the part-time mayor of Heath, Texas, (population 8,000) and, midway through his career, spent four years as a federal prosecutor in Texas. Elected to Congress in 2014 on the Tea Party wave, he has served in Congress for five years and is in his first term on the House intelligence committee.

When the congressman’s name was floated for DNI last summer, the already-thin justification of his national security “experience” evaporated almost immediately. Precisely two sentences of his official biography dealt with anything related to national security. Both proved to be inaccurate embellishments.

https://www.wired.com/story/john-ratcliffe-director-of-national-intelligence/

Anything he is involved in is sure to be a lie to protect Trump.

applegrove

(118,018 posts)
20. The fact that the Administration equates an attack on voters by
Fri Oct 23, 2020, 07:34 AM
Oct 2020

Proud Boys, that was really done by Iran, to make Trump look bad shows the White House feels connected to the Proud Boys as part of their campaign and election strategy. Very telling.

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