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riversedge

(70,092 posts)
Thu May 9, 2019, 11:13 AM May 2019

GOPers Fume At Republican Colleagues On Senate Intel Over Don Jr Subpoena

Source: TPM






May 9, 2019 7:59 am

Two top GOP lawmakers are not pleased that their colleagues on the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee haven’t let the Russia probe die as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell instructed earlier this week.



House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) scolded the committee, which is led by Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC), for its decision to subpoena Donald Trump Jr. on Tuesday.

“It’s time to move on,” he said in a tweet, just after news broke that the committee wanted to bring the president’s son back to testify. Several Democratic members of the committee have been pushing to review Trump Jr.’s testimony against key findings of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, specifically his statements about the Trump Tower Moscow deal. In past Senate Intelligence Committee testimony, he claimed he knew very little about the plans.................................

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GOPers Fume At Republican Colleagues On Senate Intel Over Don Jr Subpoena (Original Post) riversedge May 2019 OP
Golly Kevin vlyons May 2019 #1
Are we at the point yet... Cracklin Charlie May 2019 #2
Yes, by their inaction and denials we saidsimplesimon May 2019 #3
Excellent comment..wise , observant, focused, in-tune. In an opinion this morning asiliveandbreathe May 2019 #4
These are rich (mostly) white men who were fine with representative government CrispyQ May 2019 #6
What are they hiding? lagomorph777 May 2019 #9
Are they doing it to actually investigate or to cover up? keithbvadu2 May 2019 #5
I don't trust any repubs. CrispyQ May 2019 #7
K & R SunSeeker May 2019 #8

Cracklin Charlie

(12,904 posts)
2. Are we at the point yet...
Thu May 9, 2019, 11:20 AM
May 2019

Where we can tell whose name is redacted from the Mueller Report by how loud they scream “Move On”?

Funny, wasn’t Moveon a swear word to them just a few years ago?

asiliveandbreathe

(8,203 posts)
4. Excellent comment..wise , observant, focused, in-tune. In an opinion this morning
Thu May 9, 2019, 11:43 AM
May 2019

that came across my log-in MSN page..it was an editorial opinion from the Natl.Review..I was going to ignore it, as I usually do - curious to see, in light of the congressional contempt of congress charge against the AG, I read it...

my point, to your comment, "Where we can tell whose name is redacted". When I finished reading the article, I mused to self..just look at those who are protesting. So many are heritage foundation, or federalists, and seem to have no problem tearing at the fabric of the constitution.

I don't know what Burr has going considering, by some reports he was a back channel to the wh .. but many are twisting into a pretzel to "stomp" on any opposition to their (wh) plan..I read Democracy in Chains...we are living it!!

Be well..

CrispyQ

(36,424 posts)
6. These are rich (mostly) white men who were fine with representative government
Thu May 9, 2019, 11:57 AM
May 2019

as long as they were essentially in charge. Once the uppity women, people of color, & gays started demanding & actually getting equality & equity in the system, like Zappa said, they will just take down the scenery. They are busy doing that as we speak.

These people are playing for keeps & they are closer then they've ever been to controlling our government & treasury. I'm not sure that democratic leadership knows just what they are up against. Sometimes I worry that they have worked with their "colleagues across the aisle" for so long that they aren't able to see them for what they really are - the enemy of the People, the enemy of representative government.



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lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
9. What are they hiding?
Thu May 9, 2019, 01:21 PM
May 2019

It's pretty obvious who's implicated, by Mueller, or by the inexorable continuing investigations. The flop-sweat is dripping from their flapping jaws.

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