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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,036 posts)
Thu Jun 7, 2018, 04:10 PM Jun 2018

Paul Ryan Siding with the 'Deep State,' GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz Says

GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz fired a shot across Speaker Paul D. Ryan’s bow Wednesday, claiming Ryan was siding with the “deep state,” the FBI, and Justice Department over congressional Republicans trying to conduct oversight on those agencies.

At issue was the speaker’s defense of the FBI earlier in the day for pursuing information from an informant in President Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign about Russian interference and possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

Ryan’s statement — similar to those of House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy last week — dealt a blow to the president’s so-called Spygate theory that the FBI embedded a spy in his campaign for political purposes.

“Instead of our speaker standing with us and putting the focus on the FBI’s refusal to turn over documents so that we can perform our oversight duties ... he was defending the FBI,” Gaetz, a member of the conservative House Free Dumb Caucus, said Wednesday on Fox Business.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/paul-ryan-siding-with-the-deep-state-gop-rep-matt-gaetz-says/ar-AAylexy?li=BBnbcA1

Gatz fears anything deep, like thinking.

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Paul Ryan Siding with the 'Deep State,' GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz Says (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2018 OP
How did this f-cker ever get elected?? awesomerwb1 Jun 2018 #1
Sadly he's from my neck of the woods Phoenix61 Jun 2018 #2
Holy .... awesomerwb1 Jun 2018 #3
They don't call it The Redneck Riviera Phoenix61 Jun 2018 #4

Phoenix61

(17,006 posts)
2. Sadly he's from my neck of the woods
Thu Jun 7, 2018, 04:30 PM
Jun 2018

Pensacola, Florida. Nothing but an embarrassment. There was a billboard with his DUI mugshot on it but it hasn't dimmed his support. I think he wants to be Nunes.

Phoenix61

(17,006 posts)
4. They don't call it The Redneck Riviera
Thu Jun 7, 2018, 04:54 PM
Jun 2018

for nothing. I swear, if it wasn't for DU I'd lose my ever loving mind.

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