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Source: The Guardian
Senator James Lankford said no loss from Biden receiving intelligence briefings but later tweeted support for baseless voter fraud claims
Tom McCarthy
@TeeMcSee
Thu 12 Nov 2020 14.42 GMT
A Republican senator backpedaled on Twitter Wednesday night after telling a local Oklahoma radio station he would step in if Joe Biden did not begin receiving daily intelligence briefings by the end of the week.
In an interview with local KRMG, first picked up by the Hill, the Oklahoma senator James Lankford was asked what he thought of the refusal by the office of the director of national intelligence to brief the president-elect until another arm of the bureaucracy certified Bidens victory.
There is no loss from him getting the briefings, and to be able to do that, said Lankford. And if thats not occurring by Friday, I will step in as well, and to be able to push and to say this needs to occur, so that regardless of the outcome of the election ... people can be ready for that actual task.
In his suggestion that the outcome of the election was still in doubt, Lankford made himself an ally to Donald Trumps cause of overturning the election or, failing that, spoiling public faith in it, as a means of weakening Biden.
Yet apparently under pressure to clarify that he did not mean to suggest that Biden might have won, Lankford later tweeted support for the presidents pursuit of baseless voter fraud accusations.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/12/james-lankford-republican-senator-biden-intelligence-briefings
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Can't hurt widdle Donnie's feelings!
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)Moostache
(9,895 posts)These clowns are the first invertebrate mammals ever found!
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)He is a man with a weak spine I knew he would never stand by that statement.
BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)thy name is GOP.
BainsBane
(53,032 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(9,423 posts)cabot
(724 posts)Jerry (the repukes) is spineless, while Beth is dominant. They're co-dependent on each other.
Bradshaw3
(7,522 posts)Lankford didn't "backpedal" on saying Biden should receive intelligence briefings. Tweeting support for drumpf's baseless claims is terrible but it isn't factually correct to say Lankford changed his mind on intelligence briefings. He may very well; we'll see.
spooky3
(34,452 posts)interpret Lankford's turnabout as anything other than backpedaling.
Bradshaw3
(7,522 posts)Lankford didn't say Biden shouldn't receive briefings, which would be backpedaling. The tweet was another subject.
spooky3
(34,452 posts)Bradshaw3
(7,522 posts)I interpreted it another way than what you did. Or my answer didn't fit with what you had in mind. You'll have to work it out.
PubliusEnigma
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UTUSN
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(118,282 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)He ain't no chicken no more.
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Time to lick Trumps ass again.