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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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To: rightwingcrazy

+1

Thank you. I have been thinking the same thing all day long. Comey’s assertion of a “lie” by Trump was an opinion. I am amazed none of the genius lawyer Senators didn’t exploit that obvious non sequitir.


41 posted on 06/09/2017 8:20:04 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: mdittmar

Comey just let the world know that he should be perp walked into a Federal prison wearing an orange jump suit.


42 posted on 06/09/2017 8:30:08 PM PDT by wjcsux (The hyperventilating of the left means we are winning! (Tagline courtesy of Laz.))
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To: mdittmar

Here are the revelations.

1. Comey had better hire a good Lawyer.

2. Loretta Lynch helped the Clinton Campaign and Comey went right along with it.

3. Loretta Lynch should also hire a good Lawyer.


43 posted on 06/09/2017 8:37:46 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Islamiphobia is a word created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.” Christopher)
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To: Republican Wildcat

What has AP published about what Comey said about Lynch? Anything negative?


44 posted on 06/10/2017 1:35:45 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: M Kehoe

I thought there were multiple articles about how many in the FBI didn’t trust Comey after the Crooked Hillary debacle. Didn’t he read them?


45 posted on 06/10/2017 1:42:01 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: DoughtyOne

Bookmarking so I can YouTube that video.


46 posted on 06/10/2017 1:44:46 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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