so good. had me laughing showing all of my teeth.
-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Sally Yates testifies before Senate subcmte re: Flynn/Russ today 2:30EST (livestream)
- Thread starter RustyNails
- Start date
so good. had me laughing showing all of my teeth.
Karsticles
Member
There was no surveillance on Trump, either, so it's a moot point.
He is real in the fact Trump meant "wiretapping" to mean what ever best suited Trump's deflection argument.
You know, cause he knows cyber. It crazy stuff that will make your head spin. Trump has the best people working on it.
He has the most incredible 400 lb kid in their basement working on cyber as we speak.
Follow that up with the Vice President lying on national television denying those ties and defending him...
SomewhatGroovy
Banned
Early January, yes. He later concerned this point and fired Flynn after Flynn came clean, no?
But he also wrote wiretapping without quotes, too.
Steeped in a Sea of Games
Member
Trying to pass off shit like this makes me really surprised you haven't been banned yet. What a joke.
And all of that happened after Obama told Trump he was not to be trusted, with Yates following afterward.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
That's the main problem.
A black man (in authority) told him not to do it, followed by a woman (in authority).
Vincent Alexander
Member
Agreed. However, Yates herself was careful in her wording. She said today that Pence was unknowingly lying.
You're allowed to have shit opinions here without getting banned though. I mean...there was a whole thread dedicated to Breath of the Wild being the best Zelda game. If that nonsense doesn't get you banned, nothing should.
I have thought for a while that he may be some kind of Russian troll. Bruce Springsteen is just like the most generic American screen name I can imagine.
SomewhatGroovy
Banned
Got it
Beer Monkey
Member
He should have put quotes around Obama.
What! Maybe you're forgetting that time Trump's assistants went to a 7-11 and there was totally a camera in there watching him. You're trying to pretend those were installed to catch other criminals and not just to try and sway the election for Clinton?
Probably because she was not in the room for their conversation, so she has no way of knowing exactly what was said. "It appears so" is different from "I know it is so".
Vicetrailia
Member
So what are the cliff notes on this? I missed it yesterday?
Vyse The Legend
Member
He fired Flynn after the Washington Post broke the story and forced him to do it. Even then, Trump defended Flynn and called it a witch hunt. When reporters asked him why he fired him if it was a witch hunt, he dodged the question.
The fact is they didn't fire Flynn for 18 days, and there's nearly zero chance that Trump wasn't told about the conversation with Yates. He just ignored it, hoping it would go away.
Steeped in a Sea of Games
Member
What he said goes beyond opinion and more into the camp of trying to spread disingenuous bullshit. I'm sure not even Trump believes the "quote" nonsense. These people are trying to have their cake and eat it too, spreading literal false news while pointing their finger somewhere else and gaf would be better off without it. Springsteen knows exactly what he's doing.
Notice he disappeared right after getting called out on it too.
-Republicans are partisan hacks that don't give a fucking shit about Russian influence and would rather distract with accusations of partisanship, hunt to find leakers, and repeatedly chant "unmasking" as though it scares us.
-Yates and the DOJ fully warned the administration, and not like Spicer said. It wasn't a "heads up" at all. It was full on warned that what Flynn said was not true and that he could be compromised. She set up meeting to go over the evidence with them but was ousted from the DOJ before that actually happened so she doesn't really know why Flynn stayed on for 18 days after the warning. Also the other newsworthy thing was that not only was the lying problematic, she stated that his conduct in and of itself, minus any lying, was also bad.
-Clapper definitely didn't want to be there.
Abstrusity
Member
And with her being fired as soon as she was going to offer proof that Flynn was compromised.
The meeting was to take place on the 30th, the same day she was fired, and the law gives her leeway to refuse to pass an executive order on review. So, she was wrongfully fired, or purposely fired for the cover-up. Then, the Trump admit tried to pressure her not to testify.
Well - she said "It appeared that he was unknowingly lying"
And she paused before she said it.
I took that as a hint of something else going on.
Edit: Ah, I see I wasn't the only one that caught that.
plagiarize
Banned
If randomly bodying people on gaming side for having opinions you disagree with doesn't get you banned, nothing should. Next you'll just start ranting about how awful aardvarks are or something.
Wannabe anteater assholes.
Looks like the hearing is working as intended.The orange shitstain is visibly squirming.
https://twitter.com/rebeccaballhaus/status/862008494773460992
Old Spice also doing whole "Clapper said no to seeing evidence of collusion" line, but somehow it gets lost that man hasn't been around for months.
super-heated plasma
Member
Olga_Lautman NYC ✨‏ @olgaNYC1211 Apr 30
More
Join Us in a Nationwide #MarchforTruth on June 3rd to Demand a Special Independent Prosecutor in #Trumprussia !! Let's Do This America ����
More
Join Us in a Nationwide #MarchforTruth on June 3rd to Demand a Special Independent Prosecutor in #Trumprussia !! Let's Do This America ����
True, his handle may as well be "Johnny Amerika"
Rebel Leader
THE POWER OF BUTTERSCOTCH BOTTOMS
And also a "political opponent of the President "
Metalingus5150
Member
The reason they do this is because it works. It's that simple. Enough of their supporters tell people who easily believe this stuff.
I don't watch these briefings because I have preserve what little sanity I have during the day but does anyone in that room stand up and say "No dude, you're just fucking wrong / lying"?
Nope. They just (try) ask questions and take what Old Spice spins out of his brain.
------
https://twitter.com/SteveKopack/status/862016781682171904
Their message is so mis aligned. Yates/Obama are so biased that they can't trust the warnings but Flynn needed no vetting because he was already cleared by the Obama admin.
Lol, I'm White and this comment made me laugh. It really really does.
Olga_Lautman NYC ✨‏ @olgaNYC1211 Apr 30
More
Join Us in a Nationwide #MarchforTruth on June 3rd to Demand a Special Independent Prosecutor in #Trumprussia !! Let's Do This America ����
I'm in.
Okay, this CNN site is cool: http://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2017/politics/trump-russia-connections/
Waldo Lydecker
Member
http://www.nu.nl/buitenland/4680204/republikeinse-senator-wil-zakenbelangen-van-trump-onderzoeken.html
Hey, is this already known? I've just read on a Dutch site that Senator Graham wants to conduct an investigation into possible ties of Trumps businesses into Russia. He also wants clearance to look into Trumps' tax returns.
FinaruDensetsu
Member
Yup. I know someone at work who will parrot all this shit. I argue with them to tell them no, just go and do some research and their answer is "eh who cares".
Crazy thing is this guy is an attorney, who's job is like you know, HALF RESEARCH and dealing with facts.
I know deep down the guy doesn't truly, truly believe it, but he doesn't want to find proof directly disproving it either. Whatever you can use to support your beliefs.
anderyoung
Member
https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/861960559897567233
Seems like he was asking the right "dumb" questions to remove any sort of reasonable doubt.
That's kinda funny. Trying to draw a direct line from her being correct on something unrelated to her being correct about Flynn. Great strategy guys.
Karsticles
Member
You just put more effort into thinking about this situation than Trump's entire voter base ever will.