Posted on 01/11/2017 8:40:04 AM PST by Hojczyk
Arizona Senator who disowned Trump before election admits he handed document outlining claims of Kremlin blackmail to FBI
Brief statement claims that he received it and gave it directly to FBI Director James Comey because he was 'unable to make judgment about accuracy'
But Washington reporter Carl Bernstein says former British ambassador to Moscow handed it to McCain
Ambassador has not been named - and author of report also gave to FBI agent he knew at its station in Rome months ago
Report was apparently paid for first BY Republican enemies of Trump then by Democrats
Sworn Donald Trump enemy John McCain admitted Wednesday that he passed the dossier of claims of a Russian blackmail plot against the president-elect.
The Arizona senator issued a public statement amid mounting questions of his exact role in the affair - and how a document riddled with errors and unverifiable claims came to be published.
'Late last year, I received sensitive information that has since been made public,' he said.
'Upon examination of the contents, and unable to make a judgment about their accuracy, I delivered the information to the Director of the FBI.
'That has been the extent of my contact with the FBI or any other government agency regarding this issue.'
But the 2008 Republican loser, who disowned his party's candidate weeks before the election, may have been far more intimately involved than that.
The chain of how the document reached the FBI is not officially known.
However Carl Bernstein, the Watergate reporter who contributed to the first story about its existence, published by CNN on Tuesday afternoon, suggested that McCain was handed it by a former British ambassador to Moscow.
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No further questions, your Honor :)
Arming jihadists is traitorous also.
Arizonians seemed to blindly love him. They had a good opponent in last election. But no, they would not elect her. What is the chance of getting him to be recalled?
John McCain - oaf extraordinary.
No grace, no compromise, no remorse. And not a great deal of intellectual attainment.
Traitor is much too kind a word to describe this despicable bully.
McCain and his concubine, Linda, are BITTER LITTLE MEN!
McCain has never been a reliable republican.
Trump needs to do everything possible to get this guy to resign, be recalled and replaced with someone who will get his agenda through.
before then
No kidding, if he were to drop ####ing dead of a heart attack on the senate floor, I’d break out a special bottle.
That POS.
We couldn’t he ####ing go and enjoy his later years with family.
I think that in a couple of weeks AG Jeff Sessions should look into the providing of false information to the FBI by Senator McStain. No one is above the law - and make no mistake, if any of us “proles” dared to do what McStain did, we would end up in jail.
Not to mention his neo Nazi friends in the Ukraine
If McCain isn’t these things, he sure has a predilection for admiring them
Right-But he HAS lost his way
How about murderer? Times one hundred and sixty seven of OUR service members in 1967 on the USS Forrestal.
And all because he wanted to be a showoff. Or just a jerk.
What do you call killing our service people and destroying vital military equipment in war time? Puppy cuddles?
Whenever McStupid passes behind you, check for a knife in your back.
I agree.
Bump
Is it possible for Trump to declare Mac PNG?
Instruct his cabinet, once sworn in, to not respond to any inquiries from John?
But this is political blood lust.
"Sarah" are you lurking here today?
It is time for McCain to Resign. Ask him Sarah in public....
“Upon examination of the contents, and unable to make a judgment about their accuracy, I delivered the information to the Director of the FBI.”
What a lying crock of manure. He is implying that he turned the report over to the FBI because he “could not make a judgment about their accuracy”.
He turned the bogus report over because he wanted to smear Trump and totally believed it was truthful.
Seriously. He thought he was the white knight in shining armor coming to save the USA from President Trump and would be celebrated by dems and Conservatives alike.
I'm wondering if revenge might be the major motive.
I have suspected for a long time, however, that Mister McCain just lives for heavy petting by the Dems and the NYT.
Vietnam owes us.
They should have finished him off years ago.
We though Jane Fonda was bad...John Kerry was bad...all the while right in the Republican Party was the worst one of all.
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