Republicans are afraid of Americans voting but are just fine with Russia interfering on Donald Trump’s behalf. Again:
I’m sure you recall Mike Pompeo, John Ratcliff and other lying Trump toadies all saying that Russia wasn’t really interfering and it was actually China that was pushing for Biden. Surprise! That wasn’t true:
You remember Rudy and Derkach, right?
President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer and a key Ukrainian ally in their plot to smear Former Vice President Joe Biden have both tried to distance themselves from collaborator Andriy Derkach after he was sanctioned and outed as an “active Russian agent” by the U.S. Treasury Department.
Rudy Giuliani, who worked with Derkach and whose work as Trump’s lawyer and top Biden-dirt-digger culminated in his own client’s impeachment, told The Daily Beast on Friday that he was no longer in touch with the Russian intelligence asset.
I guess Rudy’s going to get away with what he did to try to sabotage the 2020 campaign for his client Trump. But it is stunningly traitorous behavior that went all the way to the oval office. The fact that the Republicans didn’t give a shit about any of this and it will be swept under the rug, probably forgotten, still boggles my mind. Rudy Giuliani was working with a Russian agent, who we now know was on orders from Vladimir Putin, to help the president set up a foreign operation to destroy his political rival. The president was impeached for it and the Republicans voted in lockstep to protect him, in effect endorsing his plot.
And it’s just … whatever.