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Senate Intelligence Committee Confirms Trump-Russia Connection
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“Richard Burr could probably use some friends right now, and this report isn’t going to help in that respect. For that, he deserves credit even if he’s only done what anyone in his position should do”
Sad that anyone deserves praise for doing the right thing – occasionally.
OTOH – How long has Burr known this? Years? Why grow a conscience now?
As a deeply damaged incumbent, Burr must be thinking “what the hell, why not?”—although one would have thought that there were enough sewage-eating Trumpists on the committee to have stopped the thing. Burr will have to rely upon the usual Repub NC vote suppression and electorate “managing” tactics to return to his senate perch, and those mechanisms should be enough to see him through this latest scandal. Obviously his insider trading will never be charged under any administration, that’s for the little people. But it will be curious if Der Trumper can withhold criticism of an incumbent he desperately needs… Read more »