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FakeNoose

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54. Maybe John McCain was just really naive

Sun May 8, 2022, 01:27 PM

May 2022

Maybe he wasn't pro-Russian or anti-Ukraine, but I'm just guessing. It could be that people on his campaign were lying to his face and using him, in the same way that Manafort used Chump while acting as his unsalaried campaign manager. We know that Manafort had a secret agenda because he accepted $ millions from Yanukovich while he worked for Chump for "free." Who's to say the same thing didn't happen on McCain's campaign?

Something tells me that Steve Schmidt knew all this, and he was keeping it to himself out of respect for the memory of John McCain. However McCain's really stupid daughter Meghan changed all that. Now he's got no reason to keep quiet anymore.

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Steve Schmidt gives a Master Class on Twitter outrage and not giving a f**k. [View all] madaboutharry May 2022 OP

Yeah. I went through three pages of his twitter feed early this AM. Cathartic for him and hlthe2b May 2022 #1

JFC, check out the earlier part of this twitter dump. A Putin puppet was the one who vetted Palin. TheBlackAdder May 2022 #21

I found it equally disturbing that McCain knowingly brought on a prominent Putinista to hlthe2b May 2022 #24

Maybe John McCain was just really naive FakeNoose May 2022 #54

Someone needs to post the entire thing, beginning with Megan. Baitball Blogger May 2022 #2

Boom! - Here's a short article summary, focused on him and her, leaving out the Russia UTUSN May 2022 #39

Here's the PUTIN part SCHMIDT cites from the 2008 article undermining Montenegro/Ukraine: UTUSN May 2022 #59

Isn't it amazing how everyone is talking now? Baitball Blogger May 2022 #62

Welcome. Well, SCHMIDT's been talking since losing with McCAIN, dished dirt on PALIN UTUSN May 2022 #65

Can Schmidt sue McCain over this? rurallib May 2022 #3

I certainly hope so! blueinredohio May 2022 #7

what it this azureblue May 2022 #4

Rachel Maddow did a show of the pedophile thing a week or so ago vlyons May 2022 #30

Don't miss Glenn Greenwald jumping in to defend Putin. Warning his pay. yardwork May 2022 #5

Usual memes hit. Notice he's defending Russian asset Tucker Carlson Hortensis May 2022 #50

Of course. It's Greenwald's job. yardwork May 2022 #51

Self employed or otherwise, he's very industrious. Hortensis May 2022 #53

This one is making bank, I think. yardwork May 2022 #55

I read her book only sold 300 copies. nt in2herbs May 2022 #6

If you read the OP yesterday about Steve and the entitled one, there is a photo niyad May 2022 #8

NOt surprised. FoxNewsSucks May 2022 #9

I saw that pic, area51 May 2022 #22

She wishes it was 300. GoCubsGo May 2022 #32

Who, At The Publisher... ProfessorGAC May 2022 #66

Apparently, she wrote another book in 2010 that sold fairly well. GoCubsGo May 2022 #67

If what this guy is alleging is true. And I admit part of me wants it to be true, just Carlitos Brigante May 2022 #10

read the Nation artitcle from 2020 that Steve linked in the OP yesterday. Long niyad May 2022 #11

Would you mind posting the link here? Thanks. n/t OneGrassRoot May 2022 #13

My computer won't let me link. But if you google "mccain's kremlin ties the nation" niyad May 2022 #16

Got it - thanks! OneGrassRoot May 2022 #17

Now I gotta go read that! TY. nt Carlitos Brigante May 2022 #15

The article ends with: PatSeg May 2022 #40

Yeah, it certainly sounds like it PatSeg May 2022 #14

It's a continuum. plimsoll May 2022 #20

Thank you for the reminder about keating. And I always remember the way niyad May 2022 #23

The c-word thing has always stuck with me tishaLA May 2022 #63

The entitled little princess definitely has some issues. niyad May 2022 #64

McCain was always just another Reaganesque style buffoon. jaxexpat May 2022 #38

Pretty much. He went through some horrific shit. But seemed to have learned the Carlitos Brigante May 2022 #48

From a number of reports I saw during the campaignn, including here on DU, niyad May 2022 #60

Just another Republican I would never vote for. calimary May 2022 #49

Keating five. thomski64 May 2022 #47

Wow, Meghan pissed off the wrong guy PatSeg May 2022 #12

veruka salt. I would not have understood that if I had not just finished a niyad May 2022 #19

Thanks I was going to google it padah513 May 2022 #25

You're welcome PatSeg May 2022 #33

Yes, that is an apt comparison PatSeg May 2022 #31

Veruca Salt has been my go to name for Trumpers who threw tantrums since the pandemic started themaguffin May 2022 #58

I only learned of this character last week, but thanks to you, I now have a niyad May 2022 #61

Not sure I want to hear from the man who gave us Alito Sympthsical May 2022 #18

Yes. He's got a lot for which he will not be readily forgiven. This is first and foremost right now hlthe2b May 2022 #29

And the reason he's going after McCain so hard is to mask his own culpability Sympthsical May 2022 #34

I have no problem listening to what he has to say, though. It is incumbent on all of us to do so hlthe2b May 2022 #36

Listening to anyone tear down those self-righteous asswipes on the right is Ferrets are Cool May 2022 #42

Tweets don't erase culpability Sympthsical May 2022 #45

Twitter os stupid Puppyjive May 2022 #26

I did too and have reclaimed cilla4progress May 2022 #35

Yes Puppyjive May 2022 #43

Crazy, cilla4progress May 2022 #46

Twitter is stupid Puppyjive May 2022 #27

A bit like focusing on "the leak," rather than the ROE v WADE opinion itself, don't you think? hlthe2b May 2022 #28

well said Grasswire2 May 2022 #56

Schmidt's thread brings to mind the Ezra Klein podcast series cilla4progress May 2022 #37

Simple smb May 2022 #41

After Palin.. then Manafort & his Ukrainian/RU meddling, I'd like to hear SSchmidt address DeVine .. Budi May 2022 #44

"None of this is a secret..." dchill May 2022 #52

I never thought much about Meghan McCain in any sense, other than Wingus Dingus May 2022 #57