GOP Rep. Blackburn: Maybe Trump Jr. Got 'Duped'
Source: Talking Points Memo
By NICOLE LAFOND Published JULY 11, 2017 2:48 PM
After Donald Trump Jr. tweeted the email exchange that led to his meeting with a Kremlin-linked lawyer, Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said Republicans have always known Russia is a bad actor. She wants to know whether Trump Jr. was tricked into taking the meeting.
It has taken the Democrats 50 years to admit Russia is a bad actor.
We know that Russia always is trying to influence activity in the United States and they are not a good actor. They are not our friend, she said in an interview on Fox News. She added shed like to know more about the Clinton Foundations links to Russia and former President Barack Obamas conversations with the country.
Lets look at all of it holistically and lets get to the bottom of what transpired with this and find out if Don Jr., if there was something that was a wrongdoing or if he was duped into taking a meeting on another issue, she said, following the narrative perpetuated by some Republicans that the Trump family doesnt know when theyre making mistakes because they arent politicians.
She also railed against the media for focusing its coverage on the shiny object of the day rather than what Congress and the administration is doing to create jobs and provide health care.
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C_U_L8R
(44,997 posts)These Republican deflections just make them look guiltier.
Keep digging, assholes.
Pluvious
(4,308 posts)... Not on endless distractions of the Goofy bumblings of our President's children.
olegramps
(8,200 posts)Only when Americans wakeup and realize that they are assisting in the own destruction and that of the nation will there be significant change.
JHan
(10,173 posts)KRISITNA
(97 posts)LonePirate
(13,417 posts)This is the political equivalent of those "To Catch a Predator" news stings if you believe he was duped.
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)CurtEastPoint
(18,639 posts)I NEVER tire of posting this airhead.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)LeftInTX
(25,240 posts)unblock
(52,195 posts)Submariner
(12,503 posts)Hannity proved that this is all Obama's fault because "Obama let the Russian woman enter the U.S.".
If she did not enter the U.S. she could not have been at that meeting!
See how stupid we were not to see that coming from Obama. Boy were we ever duped at DU. Thanks for the education Sean, and
Thanks Obama.
unblock
(52,195 posts)mercuryblues
(14,530 posts)is like saying Blackburn has a brain.
The email jr released made it very clear who was supplying this info.
brooklynite
(94,499 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,301 posts)I'm sure Blackburn would like everyone reminded of that. I hear the estimate is that it would kill jobs too.
Ligyron
(7,627 posts)"He was patriotically and diligently working on it as little as a week ago. He could have been KILLED you know!!"
They'll probably need to break out Kelly anne Conjob for that move.
beastie boy
(9,306 posts)After all, it took over 100 years for the Colonials to admit England was a bad actor...
trueblue2007
(17,205 posts)they would commit ANY HIGH CRIMES & MISDEMEANORS to win.
Freethinker65
(10,009 posts)Solly Mack
(90,762 posts)Shut up, idiot.
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)are your constituents.....you own this one Marsha..you would think to take a lesson from the Fed Treasury Sec.. Mnuchin....oops!
bucolic_frolic
(43,126 posts)Keep digging!
obamachangetheworld
(121 posts)Ignorance of the law is no excuse for breaking the law... He may be dumb, but he's still a criminal.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,500 posts)a gun. They just give you money. And it's all legit.
MarcA
(2,195 posts)onecaliberal
(32,818 posts)Yonnie3
(17,430 posts)not as bad as those who voted for his father.
Grins
(7,211 posts)"...or if he was duped into taking a meeting on another issue. - Ambulatory ad for botox, Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn).
Was Paul Manafort duped, too? He was there, too.
Was Jared Kushner also duped? He was there, too. Marsha? Marsha?
And fuck you for: It has taken the Democrats 50 years to admit Russia is a bad actor."
Fifty years ago was 1967, when a Democrat president, and the Democrat president who succeeded him, were in their sixth year of bloody engagement in a war-by-clientele against the Russians in southeast Asia. And not to put too fine a point on it - the years a wheel-chair bound Democrat distrusted the Russians, the 7-years and 7-months of the Democrat that followed him in Europe and in Korea, and the four years the 39th president and Democrat waged war against the Russians. (I would have tossed in Eisenhower who, were he alive today - would surely be a Democrat.)
You know who gave a tongue-bath to the North Vietnamese, the Russians and the Red Chinese, Marsha? A Republican named Nixon.
And not one of them, Marsha, not fucking one, ever said anything comparable to: "I looked into Putins eyes and I saw his soul.
Maggiemayhem
(809 posts)Manafort was duped.
captain queeg
(10,165 posts)I know it would fill a lot of GB before this is all over. If Donny finally gets the boot, all these people will only remember that once he was too great a liability they jumped on the band wagon to ditch him.
deminks
(11,014 posts)turbinetree
(24,695 posts)and breath---------------your fucking "guy" and his criminal enterprise are TRAITORS, in fact "everyone of them" should have the clearances pulled, Now, not to tomorrow or the next day but, Now, and if that is not done, then all legislation should come to a halt.
You really are STUPID.................
And your BS isn't going to fly, with this fucking double standard-----------FUCK YOU
irisblue
(32,967 posts)Democrats have known for more then 50 years the were 'bad actors'. I am not even going to remind you about the DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT in 1962 who backed up 'bad actors', nor the DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT in September 2016 who gave public stinkeye to Putin.
We Democrats have not forgot American history.
GeorgeGist
(25,319 posts)DFW
(54,341 posts)Unless "run it into the ground" was meant. Fox Noise never did place great value on accuracy.
WoonTars
(694 posts)And half as useful.
lib-ruhl
(127 posts)of Republicans willing to step out on a ledge for these idiots.
barbtries
(28,787 posts)they're doing it for themselves. they have an agenda and this is their golden opportunity to just about do away with democracy in the USA.
assholes. history will not judge them kindly.
irisblue
(32,967 posts)& yeah, what the hell is up with them & party over country?
Paladin
(28,252 posts)barbtries
(28,787 posts)do you know i'm so close to outrage overload that all i had to type was "give me" and the rest auto filled.
i am so, so sick of republicans. so trump and his entire family are idiots. who knew. who could have known. they're bad actors with no faith or goodwill. who had a clue about that.
Lucky Luciano
(11,253 posts)Corgigal
(9,291 posts)Russia loves you. Wanna she your future? Look at how the middle class, or lower classes in Russia live. The people you vote for think that's fine for you.
louis-t
(23,291 posts)And has no business being anywhere near a position that affects hundreds of millions of people. Totally unqualified, unelected, ignorant toadstool of a man.
BumRushDaShow
(128,831 posts)Hieronymus
(6,039 posts)paleotn
(17,911 posts)You're one of the scum who make me ashamed to be from my old home state. Piece of shit.
keithbvadu2
(36,766 posts)Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)It's a helluva drug.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)?
Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)Just what are they doing to provide health care?
jmowreader
(50,553 posts)Anything is possible.
It's far more possible that Trump Jr. is crookeder than a left-hahd-threaded duck dick.
It's even possible that Don Don is the honest one of the family. (Which, of course, is a truly unsettling thought.)
And Marsha? Please don't claim Democrats thought Russia was a good actor. It doesn't become you.