We Found No Evidence – Because We Didn’t Look for It
Last week with great fanfare, the Republicans gleefully announced that House Intelligence Committee was ending its probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election and that it had “found no evidence” of the Trump campaign colluding with the Russians. Congressional Dems howled, calling foul and saying that the committee concluded no such thing. Trump, of course, took to Twitter gloating that he was completely vindicated.
Today, on Meet the Press, Mike Conaway, who chaired the committee after Devin Nunes was forced out, clarified the committee Republicans conclusion – they found no evidence of collusion because…wait for it…they didn’t look. That’s right, Conaway got on national television and defended his conclusion that there was no evidence of collusion because they didn’t bother to look for it.
House Republicans are blatantly lying to the American people to give cover to Trump. The longer this goes on, the more I’m convinced that this is going to end really badly.
maybe Jesus Christ will forgive him – right after forgiving him for missing church
1The headline should be: “Republicans engage in Deliberate Cover-up of Trump Campaign’s Russia Ties.
Of course, that wouldn’t be very bipartisan…
2Sorry, I meant to say that should be the headline in the New York Times, the Washington Post, etc.
3Conaway is another ****ing moron. There’s video tape of Devin Nunes rushing over to the WH to cover Dotard45’s butt. Even Trey Gowdy has taken time away from his Hilz bashing to smell the many rats of the Dotard45 maladministration. When Trey smells snacilbupeR rats, you know they stink.
2018. Every eligible voter needs to vote Democratic to save our republic.
4demented donnie has been having Government employees sign NDA’s to him.
5Sounds a bit like hitler’s require oath of personal loyalty in ’32.
I raised the subject of the NDA’s and drumpf previously aand was told, on this site, that it would not be a concern since they would not be enforceable.
Is that still true? Would those challenging one be driven into bankruptcy fighting demented donnies lawyers? Could he get the DoJ involved in enforceing them?
Inquiring minds need to know.
You’re exactly right RepubAnon. That’s just what happened. I’d like to see every snacilbupeR who is in any semblance of a Congressional leadership position go down with President Shithole. Please allow me to provide the sentencing. Or better yet, a small committee of high schoolers, women, Mexicans, LBTGs Puerto Ricans, Muslims, trans folk and just a few of his other favorite targets can decide on appropriate sentences.
Bwahahahahahahaha!!!!!!
6Did you look for the truth Rep. Conaway?
7Not my job description.
Eight months. Eight months to midterms. With voter support and luck, this shit may take a somewhat different tact in nine months…..
8Tell me honestly, what part of that story is a surprise.
9k:
10Good point. It’s hard to imagine even contemplating something like that a couple of years ago. But here in this new bizarre reality it’s a legitimate concern.
I watched this sanctimonious cretin on MtP this morning, yikes, like Kellyann Conway on Darvon; much slower talking, but the same devious bullshit.
Chuck Todd introduced Mike Conaway (R-TXass), Conway’s very first words were (closely paraphrasing) ‘Good morning, I should be in church and Sunday school, but here I am talking to you blahblah…’.
Conaway then gave a performance worthy of that big walrus that used to (maybe still does) perform at Seaworld San Antonio, who played the goofy and wily foil to the human straight man announcer.
Mike tap danced around every question Todd asked, waved his flippers, bobbed his head around, and humped in circles when Todd pressed him to give a straight, truthful answer to some pretty tough questions. Chuck chucked a few tasty fish over, Mike arrrfarrrffed, Chuck bored in, Mike took dives in the pool.
Conaway basically said with a straight, oh so holier-than-thou face that, as El Jefe writes, we the ICmte dinit see notzing ’cause we warn’t rilly lookin’ fer anythin what might muddy up Dear Comrade Donnei. Couldn’t be any collusion because we didn’t find any ’cause we weren’t lookin’ fer any.
Ol’ Lucifer is building a very special wing on Hell for the big ReRusslican wave of treasonous faux-xtian hypocrites that will be arriving one of these days soon, with a superhot flamethrowin’ sauna for the bible-thumpin’ Talibangelical types like Conaway.
Somebody should post a link to the video of this MtP segment, it should be available somewhere on the innartoobz by now.
11This might be it (I try not to stream crap, this might autostart– I haaate that!):
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/conaway-no-conclusion-on-collusion-but-we-found-no-evidence-1188833347769
Hey, we are witnessing the Republican End times right now. Its just taking longer than we thought!
12Republicans sold their souls to the NRA a long time ago and now they’ve gone and hitched their wagons to the Dumpmobile and they’re on the “Highway to Hell”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l482T0yNkeo
13Well now we know the thuglican majority recognize personal NDA’s as protection from contempt proceeding.
14This is why they let Bannon, and rest of demented donnie’s Coterie were allowed to get away from answering their questions with out holding them in contempt.
And then, of course, the snacilbupeR completely missed the point. All they were interested in doing was clearing Trump. Then they closed up shop, dusted their hands and left our elections hanging out there for any passing Russian to do with as they willed.
Good going, a**holes.
15[Sorry Momma. Just substitute D’s or L’s for the asterisks, ok?]