Quantcast
Connect with us

GOP’s Lamar Alexander mocked for saying Trump ‘didn’t know’ to call attorney general instead of Rudy

Published

on

Republican Senator Lamar Alexander is suggesting Donald Trump, who has been President now for three years, didn’t know that if he was concerned about possible corruption in Ukraine related to Joe Biden he should have contacted the Attorney General, as opposed to, say, his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani.

The retiring senator from Tennessee, who was thought to be concerned about how history will treat him, cast the decisive vote against allowing witnesses to be called during Friday’s impeachment trial. That vote will effectively hand an acquittal to  President Donald Trump.

ADVERTISEMENT

Continuing his full-throated admission that Trump extorted Ukraine and said so on national TV, Senator Alexander on Sunday’s “Meet the Press” went even further.

“What the president should have done, if he was upset about Joe Biden and his son, and what they were doing in Ukraine, he should’ve called the attorney general and told him that, and let the attorney general handle it the way they always handle cases that involve public –” Alexander told Chuck Todd.

“And why do you think he didn’t do that?” the NBC News political director and MTP moderator asked.

“Maybe he didn’t know to do it,” Alexander responded.

ADVERTISEMENT

Even Chuck Todd was not pleased with that answer.

Defending himself, Alexander offered up that now that the trial is nearly over, “it’s up to the American people to say, ‘OK, good economy, lower taxes, conservative judges, behavior that I might not like, call to Ukraine, weigh that against Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders and pick a president.”

ADVERTISEMENT

Alexander makes many assumptions in that statement.

Here’s how many are responding:

ADVERTISEMENT

ADVERTISEMENT

ADVERTISEMENT

ADVERTISEMENT


Report typos and corrections to: [email protected].
READ COMMENTS - JOIN THE DISCUSSION
Continue Reading

Breaking Banner

Brexit bankroller boasted of backchannel links to WikiLeaks: Newly revealed messages

Published

on

Newly revealed Twitter messages show the man who bankrolled Brexit boasting about his private connection to WikiLeaks.

Hacked messages reveal Arron Banks, who financially backed Brexit leader Nigel Farage, bragging about his backchannel contacts with WikiLeaks after Farage secretly met with Julian Assange at the Ecuadorean embassy in London, reported The Daily Beast.

In the private Twitter messages, Banks also joked about being a "full agent" of Russia shortly after President Donald Trump was elected in the U.S.

Continue Reading

Breaking Banner

American Airlines agent said Orthodox Jews only bathe once a week: lawsuit

Published

on

DETROIT — A Michigan couple is suing American Airlines for discrimination after the airline claimed they smelled bad and kicked them off a flight last year.Yehuda Yosef Adler, Jennie Adler and their then-19-month old daughter were booted off a Jan. 23, 2019, flight from Miami to Detroit by a gate agent who said he knew people of their race and religion, Orthodox Jews, only took baths once a week, according to the lawsuit filed Jan. 28 in federal court in Texas.The Texas-based airline issued a statement Thursday reiterating their claim that several passengers and crew members had complained of ... (more…)

Continue Reading
 

2020 Election

Klobuchar faces more questions about 2003 teen murder conviction

Published

on

MINNEAPOLIS — U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar faced new questions Sunday about the 2003 murder conviction of a black teenager in Minneapolis, an emerging issue that forced her to fend off doubts in a nationally televised interview on Fox News one day ahead of the Iowa presidential caucuses.In an interview from Des Moines, where she is in the final push of her Iowa campaign, Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace pressed the former Hennepin County Attorney repeatedly on whether she was aware of questionable evidence and tactics cited in a recent Associated Press investigation into the murder conviction of ... (more…)

Continue Reading
 
 
close-image