If Burr is right, the whole world was interfering
by digby
Republican Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina was supposed to be a man of integrity. He’s retiring so he doesn’t even have to worry about rabid Trump cultists taking him out. And he and John Warner of the Senate Intelligence Committee have done the full investigation and know what happened — and didn’t happen — in 2016. So, when asked about this cockamamie conspiracy theory about Ukraine, I think most of us hoped he would play it straight.
No such luck. When asked about it yesterday, he wobbled and wavered and basically acted like just another GOP coward:
I noted on twitter that most of our allies probably also wanted Clinton to win so calling that interference is a pretty expansive indictment. A twitter follower called @brravehart09 pointed out that this also means all the foreign politicians who endorsed Donald Trump interfered in the election as well. Here’s just the partial list he found on Wikipedia:
And there was this guy, of course:
REPORTER (Jeff Mason from Reuters): President Putin, did you want President Trump to win the election and did you direct any of your officials to help him do that?
PUTIN: Yes, I did. Yes, I did. Because he talked about bringing the US/Russia relationship back to normal.
Romney said today there is no evidence of Ukrainian meddling. He’s the only Republican to admit it.
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