GOP Rep. Blackburn: Maybe Trump Jr. Got 'Duped'

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo




By NICOLE LAFOND Published JULY 11, 2017 2:48 PM

After Donald Trump Jr. tweeted the email exchange that led to his meeting with a Kremlin-linked lawyer, Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said Republicans have always known Russia is “a bad actor.” She wants to know whether Trump Jr. was tricked into taking the meeting.

“It has taken the Democrats 50 years to admit Russia is a bad actor. … We know that Russia always is trying to influence activity in the United States and they are not a good actor. They are not our friend,” she said in an interview on Fox News. She added she’d like to know more about the Clinton Foundation’s links to Russia and former President Barack Obama’s conversations with the country.

“Let’s look at all of it holistically and let’s get to the bottom of what transpired with this and find out if Don Jr., if there was something that was a wrongdoing or if he was duped into taking a meeting on another issue,” she said, following the narrative perpetuated by some Republicans that the Trump family doesn’t know when they’re making mistakes because they aren’t politicians.

She also railed against the media for focusing its coverage on the “shiny object of the day” rather than what Congress and the administration is doing to create jobs and provide health care.

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[C_U_L8R]

1. And he's been hiding this info for a year because..... ????

These Republican deflections just make them look guiltier.
Keep digging, assholes.

[Pluvious]

19. "Americans want us to focus on reducing taxes on the rich..."

... Not on endless distractions of the Goofy bumblings of our President's children.

[olegramps]

43. The only ones who are getting duped are the stupid working class that votes for these fascists.

Only when Americans wakeup and realize that they are assisting in the own destruction and that of the nation will there be significant change.

[JHan]

2. She doesn't get tired talking bullshit?

[KRISITNA]

3. LOL Um no--

[LonePirate]

4. Tricked or duped is irrelevant when he attended with the intent to cooperate with them.

This is the political equivalent of those "To Catch a Predator" news stings if you believe he was duped.

[RhodeIslandOne]

5. Have another drink, Marsha. n/m

[CurtEastPoint]

6. Oh, Marsha Marsha Marsha... go work on your image, you little consultant you...

I NEVER tire of posting this airhead.

[YOHABLO]

36. She looks like an '80s girl. Think Daytona Beach, bikini, big hair, wet t-shirt contest.

[LeftInTX]

39. According to Wikipedia, she still runs this business.

[unblock]

7. politicking is so hard! who knew that meeting with a russian mob consigliari would look bad?

[JHan]

40. ....

[Submariner]

8. Blackburn is throwing shade for Obama

Hannity proved that this is all Obama's fault because "Obama let the Russian woman enter the U.S.".

If she did not enter the U.S. she could not have been at that meeting!

See how stupid we were not to see that coming from Obama. Boy were we ever duped at DU. Thanks for the education Sean, and

Thanks Obama.

[unblock]

9. we were duped! the meet was supposed to be about espionage and treason, not adoption!!!

[mercuryblues]

10. Saying jr was duped

is like saying Blackburn has a brain.

The email jr released made it very clear who was supplying this info.

[brooklynite]

11. Good point! What IS Congress doing to create jobs and provide health care?

[muriel_volestrangler]

45. Repubs want to make healthcare unaffordable for over 20 million people to cut taxes on the rich

I'm sure Blackburn would like everyone reminded of that. I hear the estimate is that it would kill jobs too.

[Ligyron]

12. When more comes out they will switch to: "Brave Donald Jr was undercover doing a sting operation".

"He was patriotically and diligently working on it as little as a week ago. He could have been KILLED you know!!"

They'll probably need to break out Kelly anne Conjob for that move.

[beastie boy]

13. Let's not rush to judgement, folks. Maybe Benedict Arnold got duped into surrendering West Point...

After all, it took over 100 years for the Colonials to admit England was a bad actor...

[trueblue2007]

14. stop making excuses for Trump Jr.... THE TRAITOR. Who wanted to win AT ANY COST.

they would commit ANY HIGH CRIMES & MISDEMEANORS to win.

[Freethinker65]

15. A dope talking about the dupe. Priceless.

[Solly Mack]

16. Blech.

Shut up, idiot.

[asiliveandbreathe]

17. Marsha, Marsha, Marsha - I think the only people who have been duped

are your constituents.....you own this one Marsha..you would think to take a lesson from the Fed Treasury Sec.. Mnuchin....oops!

[bucolic_frolic]

18. She's reaching for it which says we have hit the motherlode

Keep digging!

[obamachangetheworld]

20. How does the phrase go?

Ignorance of the law is no excuse for breaking the law... He may be dumb, but he's still a criminal.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

21. Yeah, I also got dupe when my boy told me that if you show up at a bank with a mask holding

a gun. They just give you money. And it's all legit.

[MarcA]

22. She's a Koch sycophant - one of the worst eom.

[onecaliberal]

23. They ALL LIED about the letting stupid fuck. Republicans LOVE Russia.

[Yonnie3]

24. I'm going to ignore the BS deflection and only say gee, gosh, duh, maybe he did get duped but ...

not as bad as those who voted for his father.

[Grins]

25. So then, Manafort and Jared Kushner were also duped...?

"...or if he was duped into taking a meeting on another issue.” - Ambulatory ad for botox, Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn).

Was Paul Manafort duped, too? He was there, too.

Was Jared Kushner also duped? He was there, too. Marsha? Marsha?

And fuck you for: “It has taken the Democrats 50 years to admit Russia is a bad actor."

Fifty years ago was 1967, when a Democrat president, and the Democrat president who succeeded him, were in their sixth year of bloody engagement in a war-by-clientele against the Russians in southeast Asia. And not to put too fine a point on it - the years a wheel-chair bound Democrat distrusted the Russians, the 7-years and 7-months of the Democrat that followed him in Europe and in Korea, and the four years the 39th president and Democrat waged war against the Russians. (I would have tossed in Eisenhower who, were he alive today - would surely be a Democrat.)

You know who gave a tongue-bath to the North Vietnamese, the Russians and the Red Chinese, Marsha? A Republican named Nixon.

And not one of them, Marsha, not fucking one, ever said anything comparable to: "I looked into Putin’s eyes and I saw his soul.”

[Maggiemayhem]

35. Ain't no way in hell

Manafort was duped.

[captain queeg]

26. I hope someone is saving & cataloging all the republican BS so it can be shown during next election

I know it would fill a lot of GB before this is all over. If Donny finally gets the boot, all these people will only remember that once he was too great a liability they jumped on the band wagon to ditch him.

[deminks]

27. Marsha, did you get 'duped' by your Austrian Nazi Party friends?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10028785096

[turbinetree]

28. Dear Mrs. Blackburn stick your head in a paper bag with a sock and glue

and breath---------------your fucking "guy" and his criminal enterprise are TRAITORS, in fact "everyone of them" should have the clearances pulled, Now, not to tomorrow or the next day but, Now, and if that is not done, then all legislation should come to a halt.


You really are STUPID.................

And your BS isn't going to fly, with this fucking double standard-----------FUCK YOU

[irisblue]

29. Yo Blackburn...TRUMAN DOCTRINE 1947

Democrats have known for more then 50 years the were 'bad actors'. I am not even going to remind you about the DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT in 1962 who backed up 'bad actors', nor the DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT in September 2016 who gave public stinkeye to Putin.
We Democrats have not forgot American history.

[GeorgeGist]

30. Bumblefuckery is an existential threat to humanity.

[DFW]

31. Maybe the country got duped into thinking Republicans could run it

Unless "run it into the ground" was meant. Fox Noise never did place great value on accuracy.

[WoonTars]

32. Dumber than a post.

And half as useful.

[lib-ruhl]

33. There seems to be an endless supply

of Republicans willing to step out on a ledge for these idiots.

[barbtries]

38. make no mistake

they're doing it for themselves. they have an agenda and this is their golden opportunity to just about do away with democracy in the USA.

assholes. history will not judge them kindly.

[irisblue]

44. Welcome to DU

& yeah, what the hell is up with them & party over country?

[Paladin]

34. I got your holistics, Blackburn. (nt)

[barbtries]

37. give me a fucking break

do you know i'm so close to outrage overload that all i had to type was "give me" and the rest auto filled.

i am so, so sick of republicans. so trump and his entire family are idiots. who knew. who could have known. they're bad actors with no faith or goodwill. who had a clue about that.

[Lucky Luciano]

41. Shut up Marsha. nt

[Corgigal]

42. More likely trump voters got duped.

Russia loves you. Wanna she your future? Look at how the middle class, or lower classes in Russia live. The people you vote for think that's fine for you.

[louis-t]

46. That's because he's highly dupable.

And has no business being anywhere near a position that affects hundreds of millions of people. Totally unqualified, unelected, ignorant toadstool of a man.

[BumRushDaShow]

47. Wow. She's doing a lot of this

[Hieronymus]

48. Marsha Blackburn is a disgusting person.

[paleotn]

49. F you, marsha.....

You're one of the scum who make me ashamed to be from my old home state. Piece of shit.

[keithbvadu2]

50. Maybe Jr lied about meeting the Russians... Oh, wait! That wasn't 'maybe'.

[Cracklin Charlie]

51. Addition to whataboutary.

It's a helluva drug.

[Sunlei]

52. duped how?with Daddy Don IN the 5th street tower & his closest Republicans-supervising the meeting?

?

[Adsos Letter]

53. Really, Marsha?

Just what are they doing to provide health care?

[jmowreader]

54. That's always possible

Anything is possible.

It's far more possible that Trump Jr. is crookeder than a left-hahd-threaded duck dick.

It's even possible that Don Don is the honest one of the family. (Which, of course, is a truly unsettling thought.)

And Marsha? Please don't claim Democrats thought Russia was a good actor. It doesn't become you.

[Gothmog]

55. Marsha Blackburn is an idiot