Posted on 10/25/2019 11:35:50 AM PDT by Red Badger
The Justice Department has now opened up a criminal investigation into the Russia probe based on Donald Trump's insane conspiracy theories. #ctl #p2 #maddow pic.twitter.com/JdRpN5tiUz
— PoliticusUSA (@politicususa) October 25, 2019
Flustered Rachel Maddow defends Russia investigation as Durham probe shifts to criminal inquiry
MSNBC star Rachel Maddow was on the defensive Thursday night after multiple reports said the Justice Department investigation into the origins of the Russia inquiry had shifted into a criminal probe.
Maddow, who was the face of MSNBC’s coverage of the two-year investigation into alleged collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign, was baffled at the opening of her show by the ongoing probe led by U.S. Attorney John Durham, whom Attorney General William Barr appointed earlier this year.
“This is the news that honestly, we’ve been sort of expecting for some time or thinking that if things got really bad, it might come to this,” Maddow told her viewers. “As of tonight, according to The New York Times, it has come to this.”
The liberal opinion host dismissed Durham’s investigation, criticizing what she described as a “frame job” and a “false flag operation” of the Trump campaign.
“That is the conspiracy theory that the attorney general of the United States appears to have been going around the world trying to prove,” an almost out of breath Maddow continued, later calling Durham’s probe “embarrassing.”
The visibly flustered Maddow went on to defend several prominent figures from Russia investigation who no longer held key jobs, including former FBI director James Comey, former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, former FBI Agent Peter Strzok, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and former CIA Director-turned-MSNBC colleague John Brennan, claiming they and others have been “excoriated,” “dragged through the mud,” and “screamed at” by President Trump and mocked at his rallies.
“We’ve got the CIA director, who was the head of central intelligence when the Russia investigation began. President Trump has not only gone after him as a traitor, he tried to strip his security clearance as a punitive action because this is such a terrible person,” Maddow said of Brennan. “The guy who was the Director of National Intelligence when the Russia investigation is opened has been denounced by President Trump and by the president’s supporters.
“The whole framework of upper-echelon intelligence and law enforcement officials, Republican and Democrat and neither, especially the ones who had direct contact with this investigation or who were experts in Russian counter-intelligence or Russian-organized crime- they’ve all already been drummed out of the government and in many cases turned into household name villains by the president and his supporters.”
The media just lost their narrative, and after the indictments they’ll lose some of their “contributors” like Brennan, Clapper and McCabe. The media knows this is bad, for them and their Dems.
They will be seen by all as the propagandists that they truly are..............................
I watched her (him) last night. Spinning a thousand miles per hour.
These people will say absolutely anything.
She will continue to purport the delusion that this is all political (when all the real political espionage never actually did get called out) to the very day that people get jail sentences.
.... which isn’t going to happen anyway, so I will never be proven right, because no one will go to jail.
She wasn’t happy about that stained “blue dress” either...
Shame-faced and two-faced. She must really like Elizabeth Warren.
Rachel, you have the right to remain silent.
The legitimate Russian Investigation just became the illegitimate Russian Investigation because it actually became an investigation.
Last night was a fun watch. She’s always so cocksure of herself, but last night she looked genuinely worried. Lindsay Graham and Clapper looked horrible today as well. Like something had died inside of them.
Strap in, boys. This might turn out to be a fun ride.
Just think of the kind of vile, totalitarian, police state govt people like Maddow want us to have. I loathe these people so much it makes me cringe.
They’ll scream that “Fascism has come to the United States,” and that Trump has “officially become a dictator reminiscent of Adolf Hitler” and that “the time for violent resistance has come”
Hey, Rachel! Who has the most GUNS?.......................
Trump 10 gazillion
Swamp Zip
She likes Bush...................
“They’ll scream that “Fascism has come to the United States,” and that Trump has “officially become a dictator reminiscent of Adolf Hitler” and that “the time for violent resistance has come””
I’ve heard that for almost 3 years now.
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