WALLACE: Senator Kennedy, who do you believe was responsible for hacking the DNC & Clinton campaign? Russia or Ukraine?
KENNEDY: I don’t know. Nor do you.
W: The entire intel community says it was Russia.
K: Right. But it could be Ukraine. Fiona Hill is entitled to her opinion pic.twitter.com/KQAUkWeJIo
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 24, 2019
So the above was what Senator John Kennedy daid on Fox News about threee days ago.
As you might imagine it resulted in a ton of backlash against him and claims that he was doing Putin’s dirty work.
Now typically that would not make any difference as Republicans are loathe to admit any mistakes.
However Kennedy had a change of heart.
Sen. John Kennedy: “I was wrong. The only evidence I have, and I think it’s overwhelming, is that it was Russia who tried to hack the DNC computer. I’ve seen no indication that Ukraine tried to do it.” https://t.co/Bv2d6p2aHB pic.twitter.com/b7oPL7pKtE
— The Hill (@thehill) November 26, 2019
Courtesy of The Hill:
Appearing on CNN, Kennedy acknowledged that he was “wrong” to say just a day prior that there weren’t definitive answers on who hacked the DNC ahead of the 2016 election. Kennedy claimed he’d misheard a question from Fox News anchor Chris Wallace while appearing on “Fox News Sunday,” causing him to answer incorrectly.
“I was answering one of his questions, and he interjected with a statement and asked me to react to it. What I heard Chris say was only Russia tried to interfere in the election, and I answered the question. That’s not what he said,” Kennedy said on CNN’s “Cuomo Prime Time,” noting that Wallace’s question focused on DNC servers.
“Chris is right. I was wrong,” he said. “The only evidence I have, and I think it’s overwhelming, is that it was Russia who tried to hack the DNC computer. I’ve seen no indication that Ukraine tried to do it.”
Now I don’t know if Kennedy is merely caving under pressure on social media and from reporters, or if he sees the writing on the wall and does not want to go down with his president, but either way this about-face is noteworthy and deserves some attention.
Of course it should also be noted that Kennedy made the claims on Fox News, and walked them back on CNN.
As far as Fox News viewers are concerned his words stand because they have no idea what is going on in the world unless Fox News tells them.
He wasn’t “wrong”. He simply lied on Fox because he could get away with it and he had to reverse himself when confronted with the evidence on CNN.
https://www.salon.com/2019/11/27/are-lindsey-grahams-stupid-stunts-just-meant-to-keep-daddy-trump-quiet/
“Daddy DRUMPF>”He’s one of the dumbest human beings I’ve ever seen” and “He says, ‘I know so much.’ He knows about the military? I could push him over with a little thimble.”
One might have thought that Graham, the junior maverick, would have taken on the role of the loyal GOP opposition as his mentor McCain did. But Graham has gone the opposite way, becoming the most sycophantic of Trump supporters in the upper chamber of Congress. The aforementioned parlor game revolves around the question of why he is DOING ~IT~?
ON THE DOWN LOW?.
“Graham’s flamboyant self-subjugation goes so far beyond what is necessary to curry favor that it is clearly something he feels the need to do for his own psychological reasons.”<THAT!
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/11/not-at-all-normal-internet-stunned-as-delusional-trump-posts-image-of-his-head-photoshopped-onto-rocky-balboas-body/
Circle jerker’s Jackin off TOO this? aka butt buddies?
https://www.politicususa.com/2019/11/27/trump-tweets-ripped-pic.html
“You’ve never looked like this in your life. Tweeting this out for world leaders to see is bad for the U.S. VP Pence should be in discussion with Speaker Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader McConnell about the 25th Amendment. You need serious intervention.”
“The only evidence I have
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oh right and he has had that evidence for months if not years, the liar
Dr. Hill has written books on putin/russia. It is her area of expertise, so I think it is MORE than just her opinion.
Aren’t we lucky to have such a BOZO on the senate judicial committee, not
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-interior-department-revolving-door_n_5ddbf08ee4b00149f720e179
“The conduct of these Interior officials, both in office and after, raises serious questions about whether those officials used their time in government to serve the public’s interests or the interests of the wealthy, influential industry groups who could line their pockets,”
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-climate-procrastination-has-put-the-planet-in-peril
” according to a new U.N. report. It found the planet will have to reduce carbon emissions by 7.6 percent a year between 2020 and 2030. Instead, emissions have been increasing by about 1.5 percent a year over the past decade.”