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GOP shrugs off Comey revelations, sticks with Trump
Associated Press ^ | 6/9/2017 | ERICA WERNER ,Michelle Price in Park City, Utah, and Andrew Taylor in Washington

Posted on 06/09/2017 6:47:47 PM PDT by mdittmar

WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI chief he fired called the president a liar, but the response from many Republicans was a collective shrug. The GOP still needs Donald Trump if it has any hope of accomplishing its legislative agenda and winning elections, and it’s going to take more than James Comey’s testimony to shake them.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Friday boasted of the GOP’s accomplishments under Trump thus far, and promised more to come, making no mention of Comey in a speech. A group of House conservatives discussed taxes and the budget, with no reference to Comey or the federal investigations into Russia’s election meddling and possible collusion with the Trump campaign.

Elsewhere, there were few outward signs of concern from the top Republican officials, donors and business leaders who gathered largely behind closed doors in Park City, Utah, for a conference hosted by former presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

“The people in this room, who give money to the Republican Party and who are focused on helping get Republicans elected, they do it because they believe in an agenda,” Spencer Zwick, House Speaker Paul Ryan’s fundraising chief, said in an interview. As for the Comey testimony, “there’s nothing we can do about it,” Zwick said.

It all underscored what’s become a hardening dynamic of the Trump presidency: Republicans on Capitol Hill and off are mostly sticking with the president despite the mounting scandals and seemingly endless crises that surround him.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


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"despite the mounting scandals and seemingly endless crises that surround him."?

Hmm,ap reporters throwing a little wishful thinking into the article;)

Here's an old song I like.

THE CARS - LIVE 1982 - "Shake It Up"

1 posted on 06/09/2017 6:47:47 PM PDT by mdittmar
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Nope. No bias there.


2 posted on 06/09/2017 6:49:16 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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The AP is always so unbiased...


3 posted on 06/09/2017 6:49:27 PM PDT by CitizenUSA (Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.a)
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To: mdittmar

Comey just reminded everyone that he is still a ‘Rat Weasel.


4 posted on 06/09/2017 6:51:14 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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Republicans on Capitol Hill and off are mostly sticking with the president despite the mounting scandals and seemingly endless crises that surround him.

Let's put that through the DeSpinner:

Republicans on Capitol Hill and off are mostly sticking with the president despite the dishonest media and the seemingly endless attacks upon him.

5 posted on 06/09/2017 6:51:20 PM PDT by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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“We interrupt this program to bring you the latest fake news about Trump straight from our news producers imagination...”


6 posted on 06/09/2017 6:52:04 PM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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..despite the mounting scandals

AP can go mount itself.

7 posted on 06/09/2017 6:54:52 PM PDT by FreeReign
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Republicans on Capitol Hill and off are mostly sticking with the president despite the LYING media and the endless OVERT AND CLEARLY BULLSH!T attacks upon him.


8 posted on 06/09/2017 6:55:28 PM PDT by Catholic Canadian
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What an amazingly ridiculous and dishonest article. The Comey revelations? Why would the GOP need to shrug those off? The revelations were that a press narrative, including from the AP, has been repeatedly and in many cases deliberately false for many months on end. There is no “collusion” and there is not and was not any investigation of President Trump - those were more of the revelations. Further revelations were the corruption of the Clintons and the Obama Justice Department. And then it was learned that Comey unethically and possibly illegally leaked information to the press of privileged communications.

The *GOP* shrugs off the revelations? Looks more like the AP is shrugging them off and continuing with the knowingly false narrative, despite how it was blown out of the water. Shameless and outrageous.


9 posted on 06/09/2017 6:55:52 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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What revelations? Did I miss something? Bueller? Bueller?


10 posted on 06/09/2017 6:56:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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#FakeNews #4thEstate5thColumn

Nice try at the passive-aggressive mind games, AP!

Because of Comey’s revelations we know we were right about Trump all along. LOL


11 posted on 06/09/2017 6:56:27 PM PDT by TigersEye (When you have covfefe you don't need anything else.)
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What revelations? That Comey is a lying leaker?


12 posted on 06/09/2017 7:01:41 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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James Comey: Yes, I informed the President on three separate occasions that he was not under investigation.

Media: BLOCKBUSTER REVELATIONS CONTINUE TO MIRE THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY EVEN DEEPER.


13 posted on 06/09/2017 7:04:31 PM PDT by Bryan24 (When in doubt, move to the right..........)
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Trump said that the FBI was in disarray. Comey has a different opinion, so therefore, says Comey, Trump lied. That was the stunning “revelation” spinning over and over again on a CNN chyron. Kind of like saying “broccoli is tasty” is a lie. Shocking!


14 posted on 06/09/2017 7:04:48 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy (rightwingcrazy)
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And what revelations were those?

I must have missed something.


15 posted on 06/09/2017 7:06:43 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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Picture of a the big liar, Comey the Comedy!

Thanks to Avalon Memories for the above!

16 posted on 06/09/2017 7:09:37 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Leaky-Leaky Comey, heÂ’s so Charmin. A thousand sheets to the wind. The Comey Comedy continues!)
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The left are like little brats having a temper tantrum.

Unfortunately for them, there is noting to see there and they’ve been exposed.


17 posted on 06/09/2017 7:10:29 PM PDT by boycott
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The author and AP are disrespectful.

It is “President Trump”.

But AP and the RINOs hate President Trump
as much as they do the American People.
So their faux news and preening flow like diarrhea.


18 posted on 06/09/2017 7:11:58 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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Comey’s terstimoney easily a net plus for Trump.


19 posted on 06/09/2017 7:13:18 PM PDT by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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Comey’s testimony easily a net plus for Trump.


20 posted on 06/09/2017 7:14:00 PM PDT by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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