‘Gowdy got owned’: Internet heaps mockery on the GOP as Strzok’s hearing becomes a circus
As GOP members of the House of Representatives trip over themselves to turn FBI agent Peter Strzok’s hearing into a circus, Twitter let them have it.
“Intermittently listening to the Peter Strzok hearing,” HuffPost’s Marina Fang tweeted, accompanied by a screenshot from Mad Max: Thunder Road featuring Charlize Theron’s Furiosa character with a disgruntled expression as the subtitle describes “men yelling indistinctly.”
Intermittently listening to the Peter Strzok hearing. pic.twitter.com/LBlDcMXoXc
— Marina Fang (@marinafang) July 12, 2018
In another tweet, The Washington Post‘s Aaron Blake detailed House Republicans’ double standard in the Strzok hearings.
“The contrast here is pretty stark,” he tweeted. “GOP in one breath threatens Strzok with contempt if he doesn’t detail Russia investigation, which is ongoing. Then it says it won’t release transcript of Strzok’s initial testimony … because its investigation is ongoing.”
The contrast here is pretty stark:
GOP in one breath threatens Strzok with contempt if he doesn't detail Russia investigation, which is ongoing.
Then it says it won't release transcript of Strzok's initial testimony … because its investigation is ongoing.
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) July 12, 2018
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lol no wonder GOP has refused to release the transcript of the secret strzok testimony.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 12, 2018
GOP Rep Goodlatte in the Strzok hearing: “We are not interested in the substance of the Mueller investigation.” Truer words have never been spoke.
ADVERTISEMENT— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) July 12, 2018
At hearing, Gowdy and GOP faced Dem criticism for failing to hold Bannon in contempt after Bannon refused to answer questions before HPSCI. Now they want to hold Strzok in contempt.
I just asked Gowdy about the discrepancy. He didn’t say a word and walked on elevator— Manu Raju (@mkraju) July 12, 2018
Strzok starts to put his 2016 texts into context of what was happening at the time he sent them (ie Trump refusing to endorse NATO article V) and GOP stops him before he can explain others.
ADVERTISEMENT— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) July 12, 2018
Watch FBI Agent Peter Strzok dismantle the @GOP. https://t.co/93xVPLKu2q
— Ryan Knight is #AllInForWarren (@ProudResister) July 12, 2018
Wow is right. Special Agent Strzok just schooled the GOP hacks on the committee. https://t.co/9KMWQEUSyf
ADVERTISEMENT— Paul Begala (@PaulBegala) July 12, 2018
The GOP grilling Peter Strzok tells me they care more about text messages than tearing children from their families, threatening war, inciting violence, pushing racism, silencing women, interference in criminal investigations, and acts of war against America.
— Dr. DaShanne Stokes (@DaShanneStokes) July 12, 2018
Who are the agents & prosecutors with no personal political opinions GOP reps believe should conduct the Clinton & Trump Russia investigations? If they can’t accept that professionals leave personal opinions at the door when they work, it says more about them than about Strzok.
ADVERTISEMENT— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) July 12, 2018
House Republicans are irresponsibly more concerned with Strzok, Rosenstein and Clinton than they are with Putin/Russian actions. Smoke screen. Trying to delegitimize expected results of Mueller inquiry and protect people in Trump campaign and a very likely complicit President
— Eric Holder (@EricHolder) July 12, 2018
i don’t understand why the republicans on this House panel aren’t reading back to Strzok his most damning text to his lover, being the one that say, “i love working at the post office in Columbus, Ohio and ripping up absentee ballots that vote for trump.”
— Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24) July 12, 2018
While it might sound like something out of "The X-Files," Navy pilots have been seeing UFOs, and U.S. Senators now want to know what's happening.
According to Politico, three more senators met with Pentagon officials for a classified briefing Wednesday about encounters pilots are having with unidentified aircraft. It seems the Pentagon is getting more and more requests by officials with high clearances to figure out what's happening.
The crafts are, at their most basic, nothing more than "unidentified aircraft," and while it isn't likely they're little green men, there are some senators who might have concerns about whether these UFOs are actually a foreign adversary.
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Wall Street Journal issues blistering editorial asking Trump what the point is of a second term
In a blistering editorial, the Wall Street Journal is asking President Donald Trump what the point of a second term is since he hasn't done anything in his first term.
During his rally in Orlando Tuesday, Trump repeated the same tired lines and same tired policies from 2016. The "Promises Made, Promises Kept" slogan shown over the crowd, yet the supporters didn't understand the irony.
"The most striking fact of his speech was how backward looking it was," the editorial board said. "Every incumbent needs to remind voters of his record, Mr. Trump more than most because the media are so hostile."
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