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Video: Watch Susan Rice Destroy the Right Wing Nonsense About "Unmasking"

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lawhawk4/04/2017 11:21:40 am PDT

Why are the right wingers hanging their hat on to this?

Because everywhere else you look Trump’ failing bigly.

Polling? His ratings are cratering (again):

He’s acquiesced to Putin over how to deal with Syria - all while blaming Obama for the failures. Trump signaled that Assad could remain in power, and Assad responded by going after threats to the Assad regime with chemical weapons, and Trump’s all like - *shrug* (if you can get a response out of US officials; Tillerson avoided the issue entirely).

But the real issue is that every day brings a new connection between Trump’s people and Russians. Not just Russians, but Russian spies and people close to Putin. Right wingers are busy trying to throw fecal matter into the air hoping it’ll stick to people challenging this corrupt administration, and Rice is the current target, because she did her job.

Trump’s people repeatedly got caught communicating with Russians who were under surveillance. But that’s not the sketchy part - it’s when Trump people lie about having no contacts, and the surveillance says otherwise.

It’s when Trump people lie under oath.
It’s when they lie on their security clearance forms.

It’s when they obfuscate and misdirect and obstruct ongoing investigations. It’s the obfuscation, misdirection, and obstruction that are criminal acts and worrisome, not that Rice did her job within the letter of the law.