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March 15, 2017 at 11:48 am #66319znModerator
Rachel Maddow Just Exposed A Trump-FBI Scandal Everyone Missed
VINNIE LONGOBARDO
link: http://occupydemocrats.com/2017/03/14/rachel-maddow-just-exposed-trump-fbi-scandal-everyone-missed/
Trump administration scandals drop so fast and furious that it’s hard to keep up with them. Luckily, Rachel Maddow is here to help us keep them all straight. In fact, she just revealed new details to a dirty trick the Trump camp tried to get away with during the election.
Remember back in October, when Fox News was constantly broadcasting allegations about Hillary Clinton’s emails? One of the most damaging claims came from an FBI staffer who accused the Clinton camp of trying to trade changing the security classification of some of the emails on her server in exchange for providing the FBI with more coveted overseas jobs.
When the story first broke, the then-unnamed FBI official was said to have been “pressured” by Clinton aides to declassify an email as a “quid pro quo”. These charges led to three straight days of conservative media piling on to condemn Clinton just weeks before the election.
By then, the more responsible arms of the media started looking into the story and, sure enough, as Maddow says things “started to get walked back”.
First Brian McCauley, the FBI official whose name had been redacted in the original story, came forward. In an interview with The New York Times, McCauley admitted that he was the one that suggested the exchange, not the Clinton staff.
After realizing that what he had proposed was actually illegal, the FBI official said that he took the offer off the table. McCauley told The Washington Post:
“Listen, there was no collusion, there was absolutely no collusion,” McCauley said. “That’s illegal. Something that was underhanded, illegal, I would not do it. No one in the FBI would do it. It’s a matter of integrity.”
That didn’t stop retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, Trump’s then National Security Advisor, from saying that the original FBI document shows “undeniable proof that Hillary Clinton colluded with the FBI, Department of Justice, and the State Department to cover up criminal activity at the highest levels.”Essentially the whole bogus story was a blatant attempt to drive voters away from Hillary Clinton, with the damage done before the debunking became known. That would have been the end of the story, except for a few pesky details.
First, General Flynn was forced to resign his National Security Advisor position in disgrace for lying about his contacts with the Russian ambassador in the period before the inauguration.
Then last week, Flynn belatedly registered as a foreign agent when it became public knowledge that he was paid by Turkish interests to lobby on their behalf while simultaneously working for Trump and receiving classified intelligence briefings.
Now Maddow has revealed that during this entire media battle, McCauley was actually a paid employee of Flynn’s security consulting firm. He started receiving payments just two weeks before Fox News revealed the initial allegations against the Clinton campaign. Strange co-incidence or dastardly conspiracy?
March 15, 2017 at 7:15 pm #66330
TSRFParticipantRachel Maddow is becoming must see TV in my household. At least up until Trump gets impeached.
And then we’ll watch the victory laps for a week or two.March 16, 2017 at 10:09 am #66343
sdramParticipantI’ve been watching Maddow almost every night as well since about last June-July unless the Dodgers are on. My wife watches with me sometimes. Also, have come to realize a smidgeon of respect for Adam Schiff – he seems like a pretty savvy politician. So, at this point there will be no Dodgers this season on Direct TV because of an ongoing lawsuit – at least that’s what they told me. I may need to find other social outlets.
I think that the latest and greatest thing Maddow has aired in the past few weeks is what has Trump “potentially” done to pay back his buddy Vladdy Putin for his help in the election – so far from what I understand, there’s at least some evidence that there was a Trump initiated pro-Russian change to the Republican Party’s platform at their convention regarding the Ukraine; gutting or planning to decimate the State Department through budget cuts; hiring a host of Russian friendly buddies such as Tillerson, Flynn, and others; hammering NATO and the US long time European partners; seemingly obvious overtures about ending or helping with the sanctions imposed on Russia in December and the original ones from the Crimea episode; and regularly espousing the almost identical propaganda that Putin’s RT distributes daily.
So, Rachel was told by a guest last night at the end of a segment, “Thank You sir, er maam.” Rachel smiles and giggles out “Actually, I’ll answer to either, it’s very convenient that way.” Made me chuckle too.
March 16, 2017 at 10:36 am #66344
wvParticipantRachel Maddow is becoming must see TV in my household. At least up until Trump gets impeached.
And then we’ll watch the victory laps for a week or two.==========
Enh. Not to me. Shes a
Hillary lover.
And she
probably works for AIPAC
🙂w
vMarch 16, 2017 at 3:46 pm #66346
ZooeyParticipantRachel Maddow is becoming must see TV in my household. At least up until Trump gets impeached.
And then we’ll watch the victory laps for a week or two.==========
Enh. Not to me. Shes a
Hillary lover.
And she
probably works for AIPACw
vDitto.
Thought I like the stuff she has done to expose Trump in the past few weeks. I will give her credit for that. But…Rachel is only an occasional ally – a useful character to advance a scene or two, but not the leading lady.
March 17, 2017 at 8:45 am #66371
Billy_TParticipantAs is the case with most center-left media — and there isn’t much of it to begin with — Maddow is better when she’s dealing with a Republican White House. If a Dem is in office, she tends to cheerlead a bit too much. She and pretty much the entire MSNBC crew is basically unwatchable then.
But she’s been very good when it comes to Trump. Along with a few other excellent print journalists, she’s been able to expose him for what he is: THE most corrupt, crooked, compromised, lying sack of shit president we’ve ever had.
It’s not close.
The thing that scares me the most is he’s likely going to get away with it, and his mass firings of the US attorneys (plus having Sessions in place) is a big reason why. While it’s true that every president cleans house like this, Trump is the first one to ever do it all at once and without warning. They were given less than half a day to clear out.
Connecting the dots, this tells me it was planned in such a way to prevent them from saving the investigative actions they had been working on, passing it on others, keeping any semblance of institutional memory, etc. etc. there.
It’s beyond surreal that Trump won, and it’s very clear he didn’t even think he would until the evening of election day. But now that he’s actually president, it’s becoming more and more apparent, with each passing day, that America elected a criminal, serial-lying goon, on a scale we’ve never seen. And America has seen its share.
March 17, 2017 at 8:53 am #66372znModeratorRachel Maddow is becoming must see TV in my household. At least up until Trump gets impeached.
And then we’ll watch the victory laps for a week or two.==========
Enh. Not to me. Shes a
Hillary lover.
And she
probably works for AIPACw
vDitto.
Thought I like the stuff she has done to expose Trump in the past few weeks. I will give her credit for that. But…Rachel is only an occasional ally – a useful character to advance a scene or two, but not the leading lady.
I tend not to care about the past and whether or not someone is on or off the team. I paid no attention to her whatsoever until Trump was elected. Now that she’s going after Trump, and is doing good work doing it, that’s fine. I don’t need 100% shared political vision from someone like that. A lot of the people I dug up before the Iraq war to help better understand that issue back then had not been useful before that moment, but they were then, so it was helpful, and that’s all I cared about. If Maddow is useful now that’s all I care about too. If she’s just one in a longer list of useful people that’s fine too. I am just very pragmatic about these things.
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