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You are here: Home / Politics / Trumpery / Dolt 45 / Late-Night Russiagate Open Thread: Oh, What A Tangled Web We Weave!…

Late-Night Russiagate Open Thread: Oh, What A Tangled Web We Weave!…

by Anne Laurie|  May 27, 20182:14 am| 34 Comments

This post is in: Dolt 45, Election 2016, Foreign Affairs, Open Threads, Republican Venality, Russiagate, Not Normal, Security Theatre

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Dude. I mean, Sir. The FBI literally had a security briefing with you and your campaign, *advising* you that Russia was trying to infiltrate your campaign…at the SAME TIME that your campaign staff was in contact with Russia and trying to set up meetings with you and Putin. pic.twitter.com/JhlDCy4wU7

— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) May 27, 2018

@realDonaldTrump You remember, Sir, the meeting in which FBI gave you those warnings and, knowing full well the nature and extent of the Russian contacts that were ongoing, you SAID NOTHING TO THE FBI ? You acted like they were telling you the time of day. Big mistake, Sir. Big.

— Rick Petree (@RickPetree) May 27, 2018

Yep, Flynn was there. And he lashed out. We can guess which part set him off. https://t.co/2PDArX951t

— Philippe Reines (@PhilippeReines) May 27, 2018


Daily Caller “reporter”:

It was the same pro forma briefing given to Hillary team and occurred after Halper was already in action. https://t.co/S1QYsCNd0Z

— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) May 27, 2018

“Why didn’t they warn Trump?” … they did. “OK, but why didn’t they warn him in a way that made him feel special?” https://t.co/tbFGYDEaAz

— Julian Sanchez (@normative) May 27, 2018

… Aaaand the GOP, like good little sheep, are gonna follow Dear Leader right over that cliff!

No. 2 Senate Republican: There’s no difference between an FBI informant and spy https://t.co/bL661r2gBC pic.twitter.com/tqkdJzwtIC

— The Hill (@thehill) May 27, 2018

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34Comments

  1. 1.

    Corner Stone

    May 27, 2018 at 2:29 am

    If there is any justice in this world, Matt Lauer will find himself waking up one morning being dragged behind a team of horses as they run through a desert trail.

  2. 2.

    Aleta

    May 27, 2018 at 2:31 am

    Stand by me Bossa Nova

  3. 3.

    Aleta

    May 27, 2018 at 2:35 am

    Sade

  4. 4.

    Millard Filmore

    May 27, 2018 at 2:35 am

    “There’s no difference between an FBI informant and spy”

    Informant, spy, snitch … all the same thing, right?

  5. 5.

    piratedan

    May 27, 2018 at 2:37 am

    so the FBI warned them, and the Trumpies blew them off because they were already cahooting with the Russians so the FBI wasn’t telling them anything they didn’t already know. Then the GOP, who were/are already in the thick of this because they were using the Russian money and intel to run better campaigns that allowed them to capitalize on the racism and voter suppression that was already in play, is busy trying to bury this all as a Democrat plot and these people (the FBI) as un-American.

    If there was any justice, these fuckers would already be under arrest.

  6. 6.

    Aleta

    May 27, 2018 at 2:44 am

    Slumber my Darling
    Alison Krauss, Yo-Yo Ma

  7. 7.

    bystander

    May 27, 2018 at 2:45 am

    @piratedan:

    If there was any justice, these fuckers would already be under arrest.

    They’d be in a tumbrel headed to the guillotine.

  8. 8.

    NotMax

    May 27, 2018 at 2:52 am

    @Aleta

    If we’re doin’ music, there’s an obvious choice.

    :)

  9. 9.

    Major Major Major Major

    May 27, 2018 at 2:59 am

    Samwise aiming for imperious, and missing

  10. 10.

    cwmoss

    May 27, 2018 at 3:12 am

    @Corner Stone: That’s an insult to horses, dragging, and desert trails. All are too good to waste on scum like Lauer.

  11. 11.

    Duane

    May 27, 2018 at 3:41 am

    If every damn conspiracy Trumpov and comrades have dreamed up were all true, I’d consider those involved to be American patriots trying to save us from possible destruction. Statues should be built to honor them. Perhaps a world holiday to celebrate the fight against fascism.

  12. 12.

    rikyrah

    May 27, 2018 at 4:15 am

    Traitors ALL?

  13. 13.

    J R in WV

    May 27, 2018 at 4:35 am

    Where is everybody?

    Hi @rikyrah! Come sit with me… we can put the traitors down together. I’ll go back to bed now.

    MA is having a post-Vandalia dinner party this evening at next door neighbor’s house, I’m going to make 3 flavors of deviled eggs, regular vinegar and mustard, with capers, curried with peppers, and horseradish with something interesting I’ll think of while asleep.

  14. 14.

    raven

    May 27, 2018 at 5:02 am

    @J R in WV: still up?

  15. 15.

    NotMax

    May 27, 2018 at 5:06 am

    @J R in WV

    Some of us sitting here watching the tumbleweeds pass by.

    ;)

  16. 16.

    Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)

    May 27, 2018 at 5:31 am

    Jarrod Lawson – All That Surrounds

  17. 17.

    SFAW

    May 27, 2018 at 7:42 am

    @J R in WV:

    Where is everybody?

    The response to that is strictly on a need-to-know basis. What level of clearance do you have? If it’s not Tippity-Top-Secret-est-Most-Secrety-and-Only-Shitgibbon-Has-It clearance, then you’re SOL.

    Now that THAT is out of the way: I can’t wait to see all of those fucking traitors exiled to Somalia. Projection is working overtime for all of them.

  18. 18.

    JPL

    May 27, 2018 at 8:06 am

    It’s going to be a rainy day in DC, which means the asshole will have plenty of time to tweet.

  19. 19.

    Elmo

    May 27, 2018 at 8:07 am

    @J R in WV: Minced shallots

  20. 20.

    germy

    May 27, 2018 at 8:08 am

    Thread:

    About 10 years ago I worked in Ted Kennedy’s foreign affairs/immigration constituent office.

    I REGULARLY fielded calls from panicked mothers who came home to missing family members.

    ICE was created in 2003 along w/ the Patriot Act. It was a weapon waiting for a tyrant.

    /1— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) May 26, 2018

  21. 21.

    JPL

    May 27, 2018 at 8:39 am

    @germy: Trump’s unleash of ICE and Border Patrol is horrifying and lethal. The new line is that Obama did it to, but they don’t have numbers to back it up.

  22. 22.

    Luthe

    May 27, 2018 at 8:44 am

    @Millard Filmore: When you’re used to working with the mob, it’s all the same thing.

  23. 23.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    May 27, 2018 at 9:02 am

    What they real mystery to me in all this is why haven’t the Republicans declared Trump The Sun King and replaced the 4th of July with Trump inauguration calling it “TRUE Patriots white than white suck it Libertards Trump Independence Day”?

  24. 24.

    rikyrah

    May 27, 2018 at 9:08 am

    @JPL:
    Everyone who did this work in immigration says that’s a Goddamn LIE.
    This is entirely new policy.?

  25. 25.

    Gelfling 545

    May 27, 2018 at 9:11 am

    @germy: I have a friend who worked for INS for years. She said that almost immediately upon the changes going into effect and becoming a branch of Homeland Security it became a complete shit show. She took early retirement because it was so awful.

  26. 26.

    germy

    May 27, 2018 at 9:12 am

    @Gelfling 545: Good people leave.

  27. 27.

    JPL

    May 27, 2018 at 9:17 am

    @rikyrah: I miss Obama.

    Trump is tweeting about the poor young folks who had to return home in tatters because of the fake witch hunt.
    https://twitter.com/RealPressSecBot/status/1000719778217058304

    No mention of the inhumane treatment of babies snatched out of their parents arms.

  28. 28.

    Chyron HR

    May 27, 2018 at 9:36 am

    @JPL:

    You can’t raise a Pepe back up when he’s in defeat.

  29. 29.

    nycmt

    May 27, 2018 at 10:26 am

    It’s displacement. Clinical displacement

  30. 30.

    Shalimar

    May 27, 2018 at 10:31 am

    Katon Dawson was on Morning Joy just now. Holy crap, he’s stupid. She asked him basically whether Republicans cared about theor country at all, or if everything was about loyalty to Trump and party. He then preceded to talk about how optimistic he is about beating Nancy Pelosi in November.

  31. 31.

    Jeff

    May 27, 2018 at 10:43 am

    Imaginary paranoia. Yet another first for Dear Leader.

  32. 32.

    Tokyokie

    May 27, 2018 at 10:47 am

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:

    What they real mystery to me in all this is why haven’t the Republicans declared Trump The Sun King and replaced the 4th of July with Trump inauguration calling it “TRUE Patriots white than white suck it Libertards Trump Independence Day”?

    My guess would be because his most devout supporters have the intelligence and imaginations of turnips.

  33. 33.

    cain

    May 27, 2018 at 11:17 am

    I’m actually thinking that they would appoint Trump as head of the evangelical church and merge the presidency with that.

  34. 34.

    Villago Delenda Est

    May 27, 2018 at 12:58 pm

    @Chyron HR: WIN!

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