Why is it so difficult to answer a simple question??

[kentuck]

What are they afraid of?

Why did Jeff Sessions meet with the Russian Ambassador, their spymaster, and lie about it?

Why did General Michael Flynn call the Russians after sanctions were put on them by the previous Administration and lie about it?

Why did the Trump campaign slip the Russian Ambassador thru the backdoor of the Trump Tower to speak to General Flynn and Jared Kushner?

Why did Jared Kushner secretly meet with a Russian banker during the transition period, who happened to be a close confidante of Vladimir Putin?

Why did Donald Trump criticize all of our allies and the institutions of our own government but never had an unkind word for Vladimir Putin?

Why did Trump hire people like Paul Manafort and Carter Page, both close to Russian business interests, to work for him?

Why did Trump fire the FBI Director, and the very next day, meet behind closed doors at the White House with the Russian Ambassador and their Foreign Minister?

Do we not have a right to know?

What are the Republicans trying to hide? Are they afraid of what they might find?

Is the simple truth too much to ask for?

[WinkyDink]

1. The last two questions: Yes and yes. Immensely afraid.

[Yonnie3]

2. Is the simple truth too much to ask for? Regrettably the answer is yes. n/t

[Scarsdale]

16. They will implicate themselves!!

Putin recommended Manafort and the other "friends of Russia", and the gop got Russian $$$. They do not want the TRUTH to come out.

[Yonnie3]

17. more likely they implicate each other.

They will rat each other out eventually. There is no honor among thieves such as them.

[Miles Archer]

3. Trump is easily manipulated if you allow him to believe he is in control

Right now, we are seeing ZERO "Trump Policy."

We are seeing the policies of Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, and the "Freedom Caucus."

And that's exactly the way Republicans want it.

I said from the beginning that Trump is nothing more than a rubber stamp for the interests listed abobe.

The recurring meme on SNL, where President Bannon sits at the big desk and gives Trump a toy to play with while he sits at the little desk?

That's your answer, right there.

[ewagner]

9. I think you're close to the truth....

I think Bannon, Kushner and a couple of others are manipulating Trump on certain issues...especially foreign policy and executive branch organization...but Ryan, McConnel and the Freedom Caucus are operating independently of Trump and with impunity because they know Trump will sign everything they put in front of him as part of an unholy bargain to keep both of them in power.

Trump likes to think he's handling the "big issues" but he still doesn't realize that he doesn't write the law. Congress does of course but he still thinks he can do it with the stroke of a pen. I'm not sure he even understands this with a bill from Congress is put before him for his signature.

Trump is doing shady, back-room deals out of the White House the same way he did in Trump tower...still doesn't understand checks and balances...

or government in general for that matter...he has less knowledge about government than a 7th grade civics student!

[kentuck]

20. He is still making business deals and his "team" is sworn to help him make those deals?

"Trump is doing shady, back-room deals out of the White House the same way he did in Trump tower..."

[ewagner]

21. I still can't understand

WHY????

WHY isn't Trump being charged with these conflicts of interest?

[kentuck]

22. It is so obvious.

They chose to overlook all of conflicts. It's puzzling. It's like our Constitution doesn't matter anymore?

[Volaris]

4. Because if they actually ever found out how stupid they are, the games up

And no more elected GOP congressman. Can't have that, now can we?

[C_U_L8R]

5. Yes. They know the answers

And they know how damaging they'll be.
It seems their whole approach is to get away with as much as they can while the getting's good.
Well, the end is nigh.

[Botany]

6. And why did Trump's lawyer Cohen, take a trip to Prague to meet w/Russians?

Feb. 19, 2017

"The F.B.I. is reviewing an unverified dossier, compiled by a former British intelligence agent and funded by Mr. Trump’s political opponents, that claims Mr. Cohen met with a Russian representative in Prague during the presidential campaign to discuss Russia’s hacking of Democratic targets. But the Russian official named in the report told The New York Times that he had never met Mr. Cohen. Mr. Cohen insists that he has never visited Prague and that the dossier’s assertions are fabrications."

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/19/us/politics/donald-trump-ukraine-russia.html?_r=0

[kentuck]

23. Cohen is probably the key person with knowledge of Trump's financial arrangements with Russia?

Flynn knows a lot also.

It will be interesting to see what Sessions has to say this Tuesday before the Senate Intel Committee.

[Botany]

7. And both Ryan and McConnell knew about Russia's work w/Trump and said nothing

Both McConnell and Ryan knew

God only knows how wide and deep this corruption goes. Ryan is in a
CYA mood right now.

How did McConnell know if he waited until after the election he would have
somebody else to vote for for SCOTUS?


https://www.democraticunderground.com/10028671176 (NY Times Article)

Paul Ryan & Republican Establishment Used Hacked Info From Russia Against Democrats:

Let's not forget that a super PAC tied to Paul Ryan used material provided by Russia's hacking of the DNC and DCCC.

It was known that Russia had stolen material from the DNC and DCCC and a Paul Ryan Super PAC and as well as other Republican groups used it.

It wasn't just Hillary Clinton being attacked. It wasn't just Trump benefiting. There's potentially more collusion than just that between Trump's team and Russia.

********
It was a coup and we had and still have treason.

[mrJJ]

8. The Republicans... Will Stand behind and defend "The Liar in Chief"

[mnhtnbb]

10. That's a fake TIME cover

here are the 2017 covers of TIME

http://time.com/vault/year/2017/

[lastlib]

11. Simple: They. Can't. Handle. The. Truth!

[Doug the Dem]

12. I'm Amazed This Wasn't the First Reply!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. They are afraid of losing the power that they sold their souls for. . . . . nt

[DownriverDem]

14. Simple

The repubs care about retaining power. They are afraid of the truth.

[certainot]

15. republicans have been riding limbaugh and 1000 radio stations for 30 years

until americans figure that out the truth is whatever limbaugh and sons want

the teabag army and their reps and trump wait every day to see what new excuses and lies limbaugh spreads to excuse them and putin and they go with it, knowing it's all reaching 50 mil a day and endorsed by hundreds of the country's university and pro sports teams and thousands of small and large businesses, with a visual amen from the blockheads and blondes on fox.

and all without a single peep of real time challenge or protest from liberals, going back 30 years.

so why would they need real truth when they can make up their own and no one complains.

and limbaugh might even have a cyprus bank acct

[Ligyron]

19. Absolutely right.

and until we do something about it they will control messaging from here on out.

[Mr. Ected]

18. When you already know the answer to the question

Why would you ask it?

What we are witnessing, first hand, in real time, is History being made.

The biggest criminal political scandal in 241 years of American history.

It is embarrassing, it is gut-wrenching, and it is absolutely, totally true.

Sit back and watch the show. Justice will prevail. The FBI, the CIA, and all the other spy groups are ready to hang 'em high.

And Robert Mueller ain't playin'.