Yes, I’m making an accusation. It’s warranted though. Four hours ago Mary Clare Jalonick filed this report @ the Associated Press.
Here are a couple of excerpts:
As investigations into Russian meddling and possible links to Trump's campaign have escalated on both sides of the Capitol, some Republicans argue that the investigations should have a greater focus on Democrats.
Remember Devin Nunes?.. the republican House Intelligence Committee Chairman that faked up a scandal claiming that he had found documents proving that Susan Rice had spied on the Trump campaign?
He’s doubling down on that farce:
The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., has continued a separate investigation into whether Obama administration officials inappropriately made requests to "unmask" identities of Trump campaign officials in intelligence reports.
Not too long ago Rachel Maddow and her team caught something suspicious going on with the republican chair of the senate judiciary committee, Chuck Grassley, and followed it up (powerful video segment @ link).
Sure enough Grassley is deep in it trying to undermine and discredit Robert Mueller’s investigation into the Kremlin election subversion and collusion with the Trump regime, by attacking the whole premise of the #TrumpRussia investigations. And doing so by pinning it on Dems.
Meanwhile In the House:
The House Judiciary Committee, which has declined to investigate the Russian meddling, approved a resolution this past week to request documents related to the FBI's now-closed investigation of Clinton's emails. In addition, Republican on that committee wrote the Justice Department on Thursday and asked for a second special counsel, in addition to Special Counsel Robert Mueller, to investigate
"unaddressed matters, some connected to the 2016 election and others, including many actions taken by Obama administration."
“unaddressed matters”. Yeah, so why not throw President Obama into the cover-up?..
Here is what more than a few republican politicians are attempting to sell:
GOP Rep. Pete King of New York, who's on the House Intelligence Committee, said after the Kushner interview that the committee investigation into Russian meddling is a "sham."
"To me there is nothing to this from the beginning," he said of his committee's own probe. "There is no collusion ... it's the phoniest investigation ever."
It appears that the farther along Robert Mueller’s investigation progresses and as more facts are unearthed, the scope continues to widen to include much more GOP involvement in the Russian/Trump election interference, subversion and cover-up. So it’s not all that surprising to see republicans falling back on their old manufactured scandals to deflect attention away from themselves.
What is surprising, at least to me, is the number of republican politicians claiming they seek to get to the bottom of this while endeavoring to thwart that very thing, as if their on-going campaign to cover-up doesn't do exactly the opposite..
"The American public has a right to know the facts — all of them — surrounding the election and its aftermath,"
the [republican] lawmakers wrote.
..it is almost as if republican politicians and various trumpundits are trying out Trump’s method of scatter-shot lying. The method is real simplistic. It amounts to assuming that no one would ever believe they would dare tell a lie when the truth de-bunking the lie(s) is staring them in the face, from numerous sources. That only worked on about 12% of the people with this latest republican "skinny deal" swindle
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