If the shoe was on the other foot, would Republicans be so blase?
by digby
Barr pretty much gave a green light to any foreign country that wants sabotage American elections. He’s protecting Trump but the way the Republicans are acting, it’s quite obvious that they believe this is a big advantage for them generally.
And they are actually right to say that. Democrats would turn on their own if they did this. Republicans will not. Clearly. This is a Republican-only strategy.
However, it’s still fun to see what they say when someone asks them what they would do if a Democrat were in the same position:
On @AJUpFront, I asked Trump campaign adviser Marc Porter if he was ok with the Democratic 2020 presidential candidate calling on China to hack Trump’s emails, or for the candidate’s kids to meet in secret with representatives of the Iranian government:pic.twitter.com/g9zpDjg0Zb— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) May 1, 2019
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