A Republican Arizona state senate candidate described a night when he suffered a “crazed attack” from someone trying to kill him.
Except … maybe not.
Pour yourself a cup of coffee and sit back and read this story. It’s too complicated to explain here, except to say that this guy probably got away with murder.
Thanks to everybody for the heads up.
Y’all, I have never been prouder of my double digit IQ.
Thanks to SGray for the heads up.
Oh, y’all, Louie is sucking the exhaust fumes from Donald Trump’s descent.
Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert admitted Russian interference in presidential elections is a problem, but it has been happening before the election of President Donald Trump.
The Texas Rep. said he appreciated Democrats’ concerns about Russian interference in elections.
“It’s been going on for 70 years,” he said. “It helped Truman get elected in ’48. Eisenhower called the Russians on it in ’56 and manipulation there.”
The only specific incidents he knows where it happened is when Democrats won. Of course he has no evidence or any quote of when Ike “called the Russians on it.”
There’s more.
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev bragged about throwing the election to President John F. Kennedy in 1960 and Russia helped Jimmy Carter’s election in 1976, Gohmert said.
First of all, let me make this clear: Bygawd, Lyndon Johnson didn’t need help from no damn Commies to throw this election to Kennedy. He got everything he needed from stuffing election boxes in south Texas.
There’s more. Louie puffed himself up and made this all a Democratic scam.
“So I am thrilled that we are going to get help across the aisle to get to the Russian input stopped,” he said.
Okay, Louie, I will make a $500 contribution to the charity of your choice or the Gohmert School for Wayward Women if you offer me proof that you have ever spoken about the dangers of Russians interfering in our elections even one damn time while you’ve been in Congress for 13 years.
Louie, you knew all this and you said nothing? Have you been hanging out with Maria Butina? You are a bad boy. Did she give you spankings?
Thanks to Steve for the heads up.
If you think that Trump read his Prisoner of Putin statement exactly as it was written by John Kelly, you are sadly mistaken.
Trump did some freelance editing. For example, he took out the statement “Anyone involved in that meddling to justice.” He also made some adds about No Collusion.
There’s photographic proof at the Washington Post.
Honey, Honey, Honey, when the Texas Republican delegation starts showing cracks, there’s trouble brewing. Republican Congressman Will Hurd from west Texas had himself a big ole Trumpathon on Twitter yesterday.
And this morning’s Houston Chronicle editorial called Trump “Putin’s Puppy,” and ended with …
Trump honed his TV reputation as the boss who is quick to fire people. But Monday in Helsinki, he acted like someone the American people ought to give a pink slip.
This is Texas. And the GOP is cracking.
Maria Butina, a 29 year old Russian national, “was charged in federal court in Washington Monday with conspiracy to act as an agent of the Russian Federation.”
Butina is accused of developing relationships with American politicians and a “gun rights organization,” none of which are named in the affidavit supporting the criminal complaint. FBI Special Agent Kevin Helson wrote that Butina was attempting to “establish a ‘back channel’ communication for representatives of the Government of Russia.”
Yeah, the gun rights organization was the NRA. The “American politicians” have not been named, but I’d be willing to bet that Devin Nunes is one of them. That would explain a lot of his crazy behavior.
She testified before the Senate intelligence committee several months ago behind closed doors. Her lawyer says that she’s been cooperating.
She is being held without bond. Maybe for her own safety?
Here’s a Facebook picture of her.
Thanks to Scott for the heads up.