The Piñata Hit Back!

 Posted by at 1:06 pm  Politics
Jul 132018
 

Yesterday Conspiracy Theorist Trey Gowdy [R-SC] and his Republican mob of Benghazi bullshitters in the House of planned a massacre of Peter Strzok, former Chief of Counterespionage at the FBI.  They expected an easy time.  They would bust him up like a piñata to discredit the Mueller investigation and protect their Fuhrer, Putin’s Pervert, from his criminal conspiracy to steal the 2016 Presidential election with Russian help.  The piñata hit back.  Not only did Peter Strzok hold his own, he also left Gowdy and his lackeys looking like the fools they are.

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TEMPERS BOILED over on Capitol Hill Thursday as Peter Strzok, the FBI official at the center of President Trump’s attempts to discredit special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, testified before a joint meeting of two House oversight committees. With all its yelling and interruptions, the hearing was a fitting coda to the hyperpartisan farce of an investigation that House Republicans have conducted into the FBI and Mr. Mueller’s Russia probe.

Republicans spent hours parsing text messages and waving documents in the air. But all of it, just like most of the broader House investigation, was a distraction from this central point about the conspiracy narratives the president and his defenders have been cooking up about the FBI: If the agency had been trying to harm Mr. Trump’s campaign, agents could have released damaging information on pro-Trump Russian interference before Election Day — and they did not.

The investigators certainly had a lot they could have spilled. “In the summer of 2016, I was one of a handful of people who knew the details of Russian election interference and its possible connections with members of the Trump campaign,” Mr. Strzok said. “This information had the potential to derail, and quite possibly, defeat Mr. Trump. But the thought of exposing that information never crossed my mind.”

Whether you believe Mr. Strzok’s account of what he was thinking, the fact is that the FBI said little about Russian meddling before Election Day 2016. There simply was no effectuated plot to harm Mr. Trump’s electoral chances.

For his part, Mr. Strzok could not argue his way out of responsibility for his now-famous 2015 and 2016 text messages expressing strong anti-Trump views, as well as criticisms of other 2016 presidential candidates. Yet the messages are not proof of anything other than Mr. Strzok’s personal feelings — and, in committing them to writing on company equipment, his poor judgment. Republican arguments presumed that Mr. Strzok’s opinions were tantamount to corrupt behavior. As Lawfare’s Susan Hennessey, a former National Security Agency lawyer, put it, “What is actually on display here is House GOP members demonstrating that they cannot even conceive of the possibility someone could place duty and institutional integrity over base political and personal interests.”… [emphasis added]

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The story would not be complete without the extremely thorough coverage Rachel Maddow provided.  It’s almost 19 minutes long and worth every second.

Could Gowdy and his vile minions have looked more absurd?

RESIST!!

VOTE BLUE!!

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  11 Responses to “The Piñata Hit Back!”

  1. Seemed like almost every Dem got off something truly telling. They had really done their homework, and it showed. The Repubs hadn’t, and that showed too. Even Laura Ingraham said it was disappointing – and that Gohmert stepped over a line! I am NOT making this up!

  2. Darn, this Rachel Maddow episode will have to do without me. My pillow is calling and tomorrow will leave me no room to view it either. But knowing Rachel, she’ll undoubtedly will complete the picture of a Peter Strzok unfazed by the hysterical GOP mob before him.

  3. I watched parts of this yesterday, very compelling. RM’s video was mind boggling, so interesting!
    Mr. Strzok ko’ed the GOP’ers. Way to go!! The Dems clapped, and thumped after Strzok’s comeback comments. Kudos to Mr. Connolly also for reading the repug emails outloud too.

    https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/7/12/1780078/-Gerry-Connolly-Kicks-Some-Republican-Ass-At-Peter-Strzok-Congressional-Hearing

  4. Watching that rethuglican Kangaroo Court yesterday my gob was smacked.

    But I learned one thing when Louie Gohmert slithered in and started embarrassing every decent human being with his “questioning”:  Clearly “Rock Bottom” has a basement!

  5. Shades of the Benghazi hearings, for which Hillary would have had a swell time saying “Oh, can we do this again?”  These guys are so base, so contemptible, such slime balls!  I loved the line wherein he was told that his display of idiocy said more about himself than anything else!

  6. This is reminiscent to the Benghazi hearings, and Hillary might have had a great time saying “Oh, can we do this again?”  I especially liked the part wherein he told the clown that his line of thought said more about himself than anything else!!

  7. Twas wonderful watching the rethugs making utter dicks of themselves!!!
    WTG Peter Strzok, he’s awesome!!

  8. As I listened to Peter Strzok’s testimony, I was reminded of Mohammad Ali’s words . . . “Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.”  Strzok was detailed, on point, and professional in the face of Republican elephant shit!  He quite obviously, refused to be rattled by Republican antics and “stung like a bee” much to the consternation of  committee Republicans.

    “…Susan Hennessey, a former National Security Agency lawyer, put it, “What is actually on display here is House GOP members demonstrating that they cannot even conceive of the possibility someone could place duty and institutional integrity over base political and personal interests.”…”

    And then, as Nameless pointed out, there was Louie Gohmert who really stepped in it making the hearing an embarrassing display of Republican stupidity.  See the short video HERE.

  9. Thanks all!  Hugs! 20

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