there’s no evidence that Ukraine meddled in the election, Sen. Ron Johnson said on Friday that “there are many unanswered questions that have festered for years.”
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer . did not mince words after the announcement, calling for new election security and sanctions legislation and alleging that "every day that Senate Republicans parrot Putin’s talking points further undermines our democracy—and our national security." But Republicans have vehemently defended their work as legitimate and made clear their investigation is separate from the discredited idea that Ukraine hacked the DNC servers.
Johnson and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham bashed the media for not investigating the matter, with Graham concluding “that to believe that the mainstream media will investigate all things Russia or Ukraine is to hope against hope.” Sen. John Kennedy has also advanced the theory that Ukraine played a significant role disrupting the election and was contradicted by many of his colleagues; Kennedy has since said he's done discussing Ukraine.
Ass kissing GOP! We already know y'all plan on planting some dirt on the bidens where there is none!!
Ridiculousness! Do they think that they are just going to make people believe this BS? White guys fighting to keep from becoming the minority. How sad!
You already have.
Now this really is a waste of taxpayer money! We should not be aging for Trump’s self defense!
So it’s ok if no one shows up right? The republicans set precedent on this right?
Wow, talk about projecting.
Might I remind the morons tweeting....POLITICO REPORTED THE SAME DAMN THING IN 2017!! UKRAINE ADMITTED UNDER OATH THEY MEDDLED!
Oh brother
Good. Keep digging!
SenateGOP unbelievable the lengths you will go to cover up the illegal acts of Trump. Your illicit tactics will long be remembered as traitors to our country.
Not sure if this country and indeed the world, will ever recover from the damage this GOP and Don the Con has inflicted upon us. VoteThemOut Impeach
They need to stop wasting public resources on personal Trump business. Investigating crimes is not the same as obstructing his campaign.
They don’t realize he won or what? Geez they should let 2016 go before they uncover the truth and have to make Hilary POTUS
Maybe point out that Ron Johnson is waist deep in the current swamp and should have recused himself because of it?
Even when they find nothing they’ll never stop pushing this horseshit ever.
I love when y’all have to try and discredit your own reporting to satisfy the narrative for impeachment lmao
How was it impaired?! THEY WON. So unless they’re admitting that Trump had no shot in hell of winning unless he cheated I don’t understand the premise of the investigation.
What did the “impair?” Last I looked he won the fucking election .
But the Russians and Comey put him in the White House! Everyone knows that!
Russian assets
mterr337 Traitors support Traitors !! Period. ImpeachTheMFTraitor UkraineExtortion PutinsPuppet UkraineConspiracy
It is like Republicans are working solely for Russia. This whole scheme must have been in the works for years.
Wow. Just. Wow.
Wish they would care more for election of 2020. They have no defense for trump so cover up for him. Hx will destroy the republican party, which is decreasing in daily. Why support a man who is putins puppy, who sends his lawyer to make up dirt, who degrades our patriots. SHAME
Waste of tax payers money tons of bills waitting to be passed by Moscow Mitch what a country
Another attempt by a traitorous GOP to give credence to a story started by the Russian FSB as reported by both the State Department and our intelligence services.
We are in a fight for the soul of America. Whites have always had total control of America and are afraid of losing that control. In all the divisive rhetoric coming from the republican party there are no black or brown faces in that fray. They are showing their true colors!!!!
PutinsPuppets
These SenateGOP LindseyGrahamsSC SenRonJohnson and SenJohnKennedy are doing exactly what Putin wants them to do: forward and promote Kremlin Black PR. What a cabal of traitors! senatemajldr MoscowMitch
He won. Obviously the meddling helped him. What more do we need to know? I think all the intelligence agencies are in full agreement on this. The key is intelligence which is sadly lacking among the GOP senators.
Moronic
How many bipartisan reports have to come out denouncing this stupid theory before Republicans believe it?
GOP had total control of government for 2 yrs and found nothing They try to act like they're on something but they don't have zilch Nada zero squat
Dear GOP If you had a problem with the 2016 election why worry about it now. You’ve had over 3 years for that business. Boy this looks petty!
This is their way of flipping the script and taking control of the impeachment action against their god, whom many of them had previously declared themselves to be “never trumpets”. Now they knowing that he is guilty defend him.
Well, maybe they should be interviewing Trump, himself, since he was the one who approved colluding with Russia.
They want to use an irrelevance to win an argument they can never win . They are dirty old Mofo.
Hey GOP dummies, don’t dig too deep. You might just find more criminal activity on the part of your boss.
For sure GOP While the guy is talking about toilets u r gathering to make up fake corruption.
This will completely justify their complicit DENIAL
Impairing is such a soft word. You mean with people who are colluding and carrying out a coup.
Waste.
How was his campaign impaired,he won!!!
Chasing conspiracy theories. Are they hiring Alex Jones to represent them?
You're all going down together.
About time they reached and realized they had balls!
Repub senators are doing this to divert the attention away from themselves and their involvement in Drumpf’s corruption. Accuse others of what you yourself are guilty. Predictable
Fully committed to digging themselves into a deeper hole. Cool.
As a group. These senators are jerks
HouseGOP SenateGOP GOPLeader GOPChairwoman You already look like fools! Fools standing upon each other...GTH!
They like living in the past. They would be outraged if someone suggested looking into Trump's use of unsecured phones, Ivanka's use of private email servers, Ivanka's Chinese copyright right deals, Kushner's Arabian real estate deals, Jeff Epstein's 'suicide', etc.
These comments from liberals who can’t seem to see the irony or any wrongdoing by democrats but will ignore facts to accuse republicans.
FlipTheSenate MoscowMitch
Mutiny much? JudiciaryGOP GOP
Hey, can we investigate Pearl Harbor too?
GOP SenateGOP Russia if you’re listening
Bwahahahahahaha it shouldn’t come as a surprise 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
You people are fools ! That’s already been debunked what a waste of time and money!
What a fool believes SenRonJohnson
Seems the moral decline of the GOP is complete. Party of rule of law, party of country first, party of family values? Really? Willingly spreading untrue Kremlin propaganda to defend a corrupt president makes the entire party every bit as corrupt as Trump. Remember in 2020.
About damn time! Go get those DemocRAT coup plotting traitors !
Your tax dollars at waste- thank you GOP for being the party of insanity
Everything is a projection.
GOP pursues long debunked theories while the president tackles the issue at the top of everyone's mind: flushing toilets.
They are SO desperate.
What is wrong with these people? How many investigations do we have to have to come to the same conclusion that Russia meddled in the 2016 election?
This is a crock of sh..A diversion of what's happening with the impeachment. WHEN I think of some of these people as parents, I cringe
Trump was being investigated along time before his escalator ride to tell us all he,was running for president,.he and Hillary both, and Mr'Stupid'Comey found a lot of Russian contacts with Mr Trump, but did not tell the public about it,but made an issue out of the b.s. emails!.
We want to know why so many GOP senators and representatives LOVE Putin as much as ComradeTrump does?!?
Lol. At least the dirt on manafort was real. GOP one fvcking criminal enterprise
As long as socialism is the plate form of dems. GOP will win. Simple really.
It’s going to be a televised Lie Fest Circus. That’s why I wish Dems had gotten Bolton, McGahn, and Giuliani to testify first.
GOP Republikkkans just get some balls and tell VLADIMIR PUTIN to bit out, unless yo' gettin' paid by Putin!
I give up on the brain dead trumpster dumpster Republicans! They are a total imbaresment to America!!!
Republicans can investigate 2016 all day. Looking back won’t exonerate their crimes today!! Living backwards prevents looking forward
Whose wasting whose time and money now?
He won stupid.
Anything for Trump? Where is your conscience?
Good. Obama didn't do shit.
Call putin he knows
Doing the work of Putin. Putin is laughing his ass off. Way to go GOP
There was no Ukraine meddling! Stop with TRUMP FARCE GOP! You know damn well that RUSSIA ATTACKED OUR COUNTRY, when are you going to do something about it!
How much more do they need to know about this sleazy operation? I guess Rudy will enlighten them when he returns from his “fact finding” trip to Ukraine. Did I say “facts?” Oops.
Senators for this con to work that means that trump LOST the election. So r u admitting now that trump is the illegitimate president that President Carter said? there is the yrs of denials that ANYONE interfered despite clear proof of Russia. Let’s label this what it is! CON JOB
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finally
Look over here...
If only they cared as much about security in the 2020Elections
So, in other words, kind of impeaching Democrats when they have no actual power to do so, and are supposed to be jurors, just because.
When you have no defense. You just throw Sh-t at the wall.
Is there a psychiatrist in the house?
This is not about Hunter, this is classic Trump dirty tricks. All he wanted was an announcement of an investigation. That’s it. And he used our tax dollars to bribe a foreign govt. This is the real issue.
Glad they are including the Clinton campaign too, since Steele was a foreign operative who gathered dirt on an election opponent.. OMG, it’s just like what Trump is accused of doing!! She did it!!!
Don’t you mean people involved in a campaign to elect an “impaired” President?
I wouldn’t believe anything that the lying GOP come up with. It has been debunked over and over again. Give it up and do your job that you took an oath to do
It’s time to create a national movement to FiretheGOP. From dog catcher to President, these Putin appeasers must go.
Have anotherkool-aid.
Are they that desperate. They must love looking like the fools they are.
These people are on a fishing expedition and only trying to deflect from the impeachment of Donald Trump. Their corruption is widespread and they know that America knows it.
They need to be censured, shown facts in black & white, they need to admit facts publicly & apologize for parroting propaganda straight from Putin. Facts aren't negotiable. Accept our country's intelligence agencies as source that provides facts or leave.
They are WASTING OUR TAX DOLLARS on this! 😠🤦♀️
Trying to divert attention away from the criminal GOPs
They. Are. All. Traitors.
I guess the USA will be occupying Crimea with Russia as military action against Ukraine. Geez! RussiA knew how to manipulate us!
Republicans have been trying to figure out how to fight democrats and impeachment but can’t face the facts so they keep going back to the same thing Ukraine but the republicans let Barr stop Russia investigations so now their lost can’t find way to stop corruption with in trump
Idiot
Lasted 3 1/2 years, nothing. Your entire Party is ONE BIG NOTHING, you stand for nothing HONEST, GREED and LIES are your words to live by and you do so in earnest.More than twenty of your compatriots have quit, they no longer can serve EVIL
This is standard operating procedure for your party. Bengazi,nothing, uranium one, nothing, Obama wired, Trump towers, nothing, Ukraine hacked the DNC nothing, the list goes on and on Bengazi lasted almost 3 1/2 years, Clinton wrong doing nothing
I guess the inspector general's investigation is not good enough. Barr set it up, they came back with absolutely nothing. Barr didn't like the answer neither do you. Why don't you just manufacture something like you always do and let FOX do the rest
Miraculously it's come out the same old world cooking pot brew recipes as like the MI 6 Steele + Brexit riddle. The so-called allies united against Trump America ?
The Republican Senators should be ashamed by their own ranks. I have never seen such egregious behavior from one group. Trump & Trump's kids, Devin Nunes, & Rudy Guiliani, Bill Barr & Mike Pence are all guilty of treason with a known enemy (Russia), and now the GOP!
They are wholly bought by Russia.
The dems started this but they're not going to like how it ends.
Dems better get prepared. Several Dems going to jail!
People should refuse to psrticipate in a conspiracy theory.
GOP..Gang of Putin
Time wasters.
They can investigate Ukraine until Devin Nunes’ cows come home. I’m screaming it so loud I hope Republican collaborators can hear. Ready IT WAS THE RUSSIANS! Trump’s kids are the real criminals profiting from their father being our fake president.
What the Dims sow so they reap but in spades: why because so many of them are corrupt.
Why do you perpetuate these Russian talking points How about “3 senators pushing debunked conspiracy theory” headline
The Republican Cult supports this tooth and nail. They are beyond redemption. They really are. We have to admit that. 'With Donald Trump, this is a moving target. He's a one-man crime wave and it doesn't end and he's completely defiant and unrepentant' - RepRaskin
What desperation, pathetic.
How about investigating Trump & his staff interfering with a fair & honest election. Russian help wasn’t legal.
I’m a republican voter who finds current Republican Senators to be jokes that don’t take their constitutional responsibilities seriously. Their salaries and perks are fantastic and they deserve to lose them.
Terrible headline. Should be: 'Republican senators are escalating their reactive probe into debunked conspiracies in lame attempt to defend Trump's lawlessness.'
Correction: Russian meddling
I refuse to try to understand 'crazy'.
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realDonaldTrump How have you who WON the election, been able to Cultivate this conspiracy theory? Wasn't it the Republicans who started the investigations into your personal corruption to begin with? They have NO other way to defend you only to deflect! ImpeachTrump SenateGOP
Fake new witch hunt hoax not doing their jobs slowing down the government. Thought the gop might like reminders of when they say dems are wasting time. Good thing they are wasting their resources on an election almost 4yrs ago where their candidate won.
How many were in Russia for the Fourth of July?
And embarrassing themselves more each day. What has happened to the party of Reagan? Wish he were alive to see the Putin loving Republicans that now are the majority in the GOP. Going against our intelligence community and a soon to be released IG report that Barr is crying over.
Have fun with that!
Will they be interviewing Trump, and his good pal, Putin?
WTH? Does the GOP not realize the dotard got appointed president by the electoral college? They are not even barking up a dead tree. They are barking up a nonexistent tree.
Go to work.
They're launching a campaign, even though their candidate won.
Johnson again? In this moment I wish the ghost of the GOP past would visit these guys.
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Democrats, DeepState, and FakeNewsMedia have totally embraced and proliferated both narratives that Russia meddled in our 2016 elections and Russia had totally infiltrated Ukraine; Yet reject all indications Ukraine was also a source of the meddling?
Republican senators dig deeper into crack-pot theory about Ukraine, because their boss is a stooge for the Russians and they don’t want to admit it.
Idiots.
They’re worried that if they don’t support 45 , he’ll call them names & try to not get them re-elected. Guess what, we’re not going to vote for you any damn way. So if you’re going to go out, go out with your head held high knowing you stood for America & the Constitution!!!
Why even if it was true. And it is not. It would make there king innocent.
deflecting is not going to work.
Didn’t these guys go to Moscow last year?
Pure bullshit by Gop. They had both the House and the Senate and had over 2 years to look into this and they didn't. Why? Why didn't they? Cause they know it's a bullshit probe.
Useful idiots. But useful to whom?
What did Ukraine do to undermine Trump’s Presidency? Some Ukrainian politicians preferred Hillary over him? Many other countries had same sentiments, but beyond speaking out, what did they do. The DNC Server theory is a joke.
Ron Johnson is in this up to his neck
A fishing expedition to a mythical waterhole to obfuscate the present day realities.
Good. Dig baby dig. And when you find mud, sling it
Russia won Trump. Trump won the GOP. Russia won the GOP. This just proves it.
The alleged impairing was so effective that Trump got elected. GOP nonsense has no bounds or shame.
You forgot to add “which is bullshit”. Do better.
wtf is wrong with ron Johnson? I've been asking that since I saw him entering an elevator saying something completely crazy. guess he hasn't found his brain or his balls since that day. is there a democrat to run against him in his next election? hopefully in 2020.
What is wrong with these Republican senators? How many members of the intelligence community have they heard say that RUSSIA, not Ukraine, interfered in our 2016 election? They are like the very stubborn CHILD who refuses to believe what they are told by their mother!!!
Johnson, the Senator from Wisconsin, is a classic example of right wing waste. He inherited his company in Oshkosh and ran for office. He is a dumb-ass!
A joke...
Give me a break!
Ha ha ha! Desperate
What?
MZHemingway Foreign interference in our presidential elections is either a problem or it isn't. When it could be blamed on POTUS, it sure was a big problem.
What was impaired? Is he not in the WH🙄
Diversion, diversion, diversion..
Who investigates an election that you won, irs like the dealer pushes you the pit and you ask, can I see his hand please?
Democrats opened the can they’ve been trying so desperately to hide
I hope they’re not too surprised when the GOP is wiped out next election because the people have had enough of their corruption and nonsense.. TrumpImpeachment
What's pathetic is andrii telezhenko who they say was a diplomat is demonstrably false, he was a very low level aid in a minor embassy. After his brief stint he started pushing the Ukraine collusion conspirousy. Active in twtr with pics with u.s conservatives
GOP has lost its moral compass. You and ever other GOP elected leader have a constitutional responsibility to look at all the evidence before making a judgment. Live up to the oath you each have taken. Country over party.
But...he won?
Why would Trump use the term, 'quid pro quo' during the phone call if he didn't already know about the whistleblower complaint? Obviously, he knew about the complaint AND THEN used the term quid pro quo since everyone knows Trump doesn't have the vocabulary to even use it! 🧢🧢
Distract distract distract, they can’t dispute the charges the facts speak for themselves
what about the investigation they already did the DNI is stopping from becoming public that says Ukraine did nothing in 2016?
They do know that he’s already the president, as sad as that is. They’re trying to fight a fight that means nothing now. Idiots!
Lordy they are pitiful
Excellent!!
Impairing? Really, that's the word to describe spying?
They’re even finding nobodies to lie for them “Andriy Telizhenko has propelled himself from a minor functionary at the Ukrainian Embassy to a bespoke purveyor of conspiracy theories to Republican senators, Russian media, and Rudy Giuliani.”
Witch hunt. Big fat hoax!
Pretty sure Clinton's emails prove Chulupa's work with Ukraine.
Trying to create a counter narrative for crooked and corrupt Donald. Not one republican deserves to be in office. Not one.
Embarrassing how they Republicans) are willing participants to the Russian diatribe. Will go down in history as the blind fools who undermined democracy. The world is watching. Some are astounded, others are laughing and rejoicing (Putin).
Wouldnt this be considered wasting valuable working time for the congress?
Theory is an inappropriate word. Try Russian propaganda. For 🇺🇸 VoteBlue GOPComplicitTraitors
they believe. Sure they do
NY Times 9/8/2019-Top Secret Russian Unit Seeks to Destabilize Europe, Security Officials Say-A group, known as Unit 29155, has operated at least a decade, yet Western officials only recently discovered it. warn that it is impossible to know when&where its operatives will strike
GOP Senators are trying to divert attention from impeachment proceedings.
Strike 'theory'....insert 'evidence'.
When your boy is guilty what else can you do but throw up smoke wherever possible. Sad.
Benghazi all over. I was fine with the first couple of investigations, just like with Ukraine, but just like with Benghazi and other investigations the GOP keeps pushing, how many times do you have to conclude there is nothing there before you quit?
There are been two studies fromthe IG AND DOJ. This is completed nonsense
Took them long enough.
LaurenHailey201
Republicans Senators may think their fairytales are distracting America. Fortunately the nation sees it for what it is, Pure Unadulterated BS. Hard Stop
Silly question,how did any1 impair or interfere in Trump' s campaign,he won?This is such nonsense.
Do any of these idiots in the GOP understand realDonaldTrump is president?
Looked to see if history is repeating itself. Turns out it's not. It's rather creating itself. As the American empire wanes, kooks abound the land.
SenateGOP Stop wasting taxpayer money on frivolous hearing into 2016 election. You already know the answer!! And it wasn't Ukraine!! Do something else productive, like passing or at least discussing some of the multitude bills sent to Senate from Hoyse of Representatives!!
Are they insane? The Russians and the FBI handed the win to Trump.
Oh FFS . give it up America . these people are driving the bus?
Hilarious!
But he won.
Its about time that all Republicans senators stand up against the socialist Democrats
You guys are really reporting this as news, aren’t you. After Fiona Hill exposed it quite clearly as a creation of Russian intelligence.
Are Republican the Party of Fake News & Phony Characters?
With GOP supporting Trump sending our troops to guard the oil facilities of a bunch of terrorist-propagating Saudis, we should be admitting that Republicans are domestic terrorist enablers.
Do they know he won? Why do they keep saying that Democrats can’t accept the results from 2016?
Maybe instead of using taxpayers money they should use theirs. If they paid for it they'd think twice. Lying and spending for bogus investigations. WHO'S PAYING FOR TRUMPS LEGAL FEES , COURT AND LAWYERS. WHEN THEY FIGURED THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE , his lawyers figured in.
not worried about the Russians at alltreasonthrives
WHY DON'T THEY WAKE UP. There was just a investigation by an outside source Barr so called trusted, until he did not turn up what the Republicans and Trump wanted. So now more time and money harassments,bagering, to bend information for them FOR WHAT? A THUG
Get over it GOP, Trump already won the 2016 election
Dear Republicans: your Dear Leader won in 2016, as you love to remind us. No one impaired the Trump campaign, except maybe the stooges who ran it. Investigate that, why don’t ya
Let’s go back to 2000 instead and the dangling chads and another GOP popular vote loser who gave us war and death in Iraq.
Sad that they have nothing better to do. While Moscow Mitch has 400 bills on his desk
Best defense is a good offense. But not this time.
“impairing the campaign of President Trump” seems a bit of an oxymoron. Clearly, it wasn’t impaired.
Since when the gop says fuck the FBI and the intel community . I guess since trump and putin lining their pockets with russian rubles
It’s not even a theory. It’s a goddamn farce!
Corrupt Republican liars continue to peddle conspiracy theories and you continue to help them. Stop normalizing this garbage.
Alternative Headline: After the GOP Senate Inv own conclusion that it was Russia who attacked the 2016 election, the GOP has turned into the 9/11 truther party - pushed debunked conspiracy theories.' cc: kenvogel kyledcheney playbookplus POLITICO_Steve BresPolitico
The larger percent of the people did not want that troll in office and knew the possibility of damage he could cause. He has exceeded those expectations by huge margins. He has weakened our country. He has constantly lied. We are only lucky he followed one of the greatest POTUS.
Didn't the moron win?
Trump 2020🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Partisan crap. Just like Benghazi.
Forgive me, but didn’t tRump win? What are you gonna tells us, if, when all your sleuthing is done, you discover he didn’t win fair and square? that, indeed, foreign sources pushed him over the hump
The GOP is desperate and sad.
What’s the word for mass delusion?
They realize he won, right?
All this bullshit just to prove Russia didn’t help the 🍊baboon it happened get over it
They can dig to China, but that won't change the fact that Putin put trump in the oval office, & he will cheat, lie, bribe & extort any help he can get to stay there. Because that keeps this TRAITOR out of prison and the party of cheating white supremacists in power.
Hey fool! We are going to impeach Trump and not send it to the Senate! Hopefully Nancy Pelosi holds it! McConnell held up the Garland vote! HOW DOES IT FEEL? U pathetic Republican? “All roads lead to Russia & Saudia Arabia.”
Why do you treat this story like it's a perfectly fine and normal thing for an American political party to promote Russian disinformation?
Hot air buffoons, they will be the laughing stock in the history books GOPCorruptionOverCountry GOPComplicitTraitors Traitor TraitorTrump MAGA MAGA2020Landslide is going to happen, when the rational silent majority vote all GOP realDonaldTrump sycophants out
Can we please, incessantly, without hesitation, remind these people over and over and over again THAT HE FUCKING WON. WHAT ARE YOU INVESTIGATING?!?!?
And the media will continue to give it oxygen and low information voters will come to believe it is the other side of the story.
Let them dig their political graves. There’s nothing there.
Another lost soul
f-ing ridiculous. This was already debunked by the GOP-led Senate Intelligence Committee.
Reopen Russia probe ...lol what’s next bengazi
Ha. The plot thickens!
😅😅😅 And just like that Democrats don't like investigations anymore
Get ready to find out Obama spied.
Talk to Putin then GOPCorruptionOverCountry
The death of the GOP by none other than a second rate reality tv personality is the stuff that will be studied for years.
Yeah, they know we're close to getting that bastard! They want to do everything they can to distract and pivot. Never thought I'd live to see people select party over country.
You have to ask yourself why didn't they do this between 2016-18?
At least we know who the traitors are.
Talk about a waste of taxpayer dollars.
Whatever Putin wants, right?
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