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Miigwech

(3,741 posts) Wed Jan 30, 2019, 07:50 PM Jan 2019

Question: why do we allow traitors subvert our Democracy when we learn the truth?

Joe Biden said Tuesday that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell stopped the Obama administration from speaking out about Russian interference in the 2016 campaign by refusing to sign on to a bipartisan statement of condemnation.

That moment, the former Democratic vice president said, made him think “the die had been cast ... this was all about the political play.”

He expressed regret, in hindsight, given the intelligence he says came in after Election Day. "Had we known what we knew three weeks later, we may have done something more,” Biden, a potential 2020 presidential candidate, said.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/23/mitch-mcconnell-russia-obama-joe-biden-359531

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Question: why do we allow traitors subvert our Democracy when we learn the truth? (Original Post) Miigwech Jan 2019 OP

Obama and Biden were in a tough spot. Hindsight is 20-20. aikoaiko Jan 2019 #1

And instead we got Pantagruel Jan 2019 #2

Agreed. Everyone thought HRC would prevail. aikoaiko Jan 2019 #3

Except McConnell Horse with no Name Jan 2019 #4

So be it ... defending the truth is never a wrong policy Miigwech Jan 2019 #5

aikoaiko

(34,169 posts)

1. Obama and Biden were in a tough spot. Hindsight is 20-20.

Reply to Miigwech (Original post)

Wed Jan 30, 2019, 07:59 PM

Jan 2019

But McConnel can't stop the President from speaking and showing evidence.

Had Obama spoken about the Russian involvement more and discredited the Trump campaign and HRC had won, there would be years and years of congressional investigations.

Pantagruel

(2,580 posts)

2. And instead we got

Reply to aikoaiko (Reply #1)

Wed Jan 30, 2019, 08:06 PM

Jan 2019

"years and years of congressional investigations."

No question BO should have gone public but everyone thought HRC would squeak by so a massive miscalculation was made.

aikoaiko

(34,169 posts)

3. Agreed. Everyone thought HRC would prevail.

Reply to Pantagruel (Reply #2)

Wed Jan 30, 2019, 08:08 PM

Jan 2019

Horse with no Name

(33,956 posts)

4. Except McConnell

Reply to aikoaiko (Reply #3)

Wed Jan 30, 2019, 08:10 PM

Jan 2019

He knew Russia was going to intervene. That’s why they didn’t seat Merrick Garland

Miigwech

(3,741 posts)

5. So be it ... defending the truth is never a wrong policy

Reply to aikoaiko (Reply #1)

Wed Jan 30, 2019, 08:42 PM

Jan 2019

bitch mc connel's crimes must have been known by many ... and his wife's family's mega shipping co. that has be under investigation for bringing drugs into the US? I just think, stop with the collegial democratic notion that every elected official is a patriot. Clearly,
mc connel is now and in the recent past is a traitor to our values and possibly to our country. Why don't we come full force against him? Where is the uproar? He doesn't deserve the respect afforded him as leader of the Senate!

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