Republicans Defend Trump's Election Interference Comments by ... Blaming Hillary Clinton
On Wednesday night, ABC released a clip of President Trump telling George Stephanopolous that he doesn’t feel he needs to contact the FBI if a foreign government offered him dirt on his 2020 opponent, and that he would be willing to court to any such offers. “If somebody called from a country [and said] we have information on your opponent. Oh. I think I’d want to hear it,” the president said.
As Federal Election Commission Chair Ellen Weintraub pointed out on Twitter, this is illegal. It’s pretty simple. There is no gray area. “I would not have thought that I needed to say this,” she wrote, attaching a statement clarifying that “it is illegal for any person to solicit, accept, or receive anything of value from a foreign national in connection with a U.S. election.”
“This is not a novel concept,” she added. “Electoral intervention from foreign governments has been considered unacceptable since the beginning of our nation.”
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But as has been made abundantly clear over the past two-plus years, the president hold his own inclinations on a higher plane than federal law. This, sadly, has meant that Republican lawmakers, too, consider the whims of this real estate con artist and reality TV star to be more legitimate than anything outlined in the Constitution. They’ve made this position clear repeatedly, and did so again in the wake of Trump’s contention that the FBI director is wrong, and that he can accept foreign election assistance if he pleases. The comments were so egregious that most Republican refrained from commenting, but there were still those who looking to curry favor with Trump.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) on Thursday bumbled through a nonsensical deflection of the president’s comments. “I’ve watched this president stand up against these foreign entities and he would not allow any foreign country to interfere in our elections,” he said in response to Trump’s admission that he would gladly allow a foreign country to interfere in our elections.
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But the overwhelming response from Trump’s top Republican lackeys has been to, what else, point the finger at Hillary Clinton. “Talk about taking foreign help. Hillary Clinton hired a foreign spy,” tweeted Rep. Gym Jordan (R-OH). “He talked to Russians and put together an oppo research document. It wasn’t verified, but the FBI used it to spy on the Trump campaign.”
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trump ass kissers. The question is who, trump or putin? I guess it could be both!
