Thu Jan 25, 2018, 09:05 AM
Star Member CousinIT (2,527 posts)
GOP's Ron Johnson FBI "secret society" claim source was a joke in a text message
https://shareblue.com/gop-senator-pushed-absurd-secret-society-conspiracy-based-on-a-joke-text/
Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson claimed there was a "group" of FBI agents "that was holding secret meetings off-site." His source turned out to be a joke from a text message.
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The two officials privately trashed Donald Trump during the Clinton server investigation, but also several other politicians on both sides of the aisle. As far as Republicans are concerned, this is a scandal that proves liberal bias at the FBI, brings down special counsel Robert Mueller, and discredits the entire federal investigative organization, even though it patently does none of those things.
But Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson went even further.
On Fox News on Tuesday, Johnson, who sits on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, claimed the Strzok and Page text messages prove there was “a group that was holding secret meetings off-site,” and reflected “corruption, more than bias.”
He reiterated this claim on Wednesday morning, saying “I have heard, you know, from somebody who has talked to our committee, that there — there is a group of individuals in the FBI that was holding secret, off-site meetings. And you know, again, that Strzok and Page calling it a certain term, I’m just saying, off-site meetings.”
The only problem? Johnson’s source is a text message that was clearly tongue-in-cheek.
The entirety of the message, from Lisa Page, states, “Are you going to give out your calendars? Seems kind of depressing. Maybe it should just be the first meeting of the secret society.”
Any reasonable interpretation of this would be that it was a cheesy joke, not a boast of a sinister underground organization of turncoat FBI agents trying to bring down Trump.
https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100210142711They are claiming that it was a joke. Call them in, make them sweat a little and find out if it was just a joke.
Response to CousinIT (Original post)Thu Jan 25, 2018, 09:15 AM
C_U_L8R (24,611 posts)
4. And again, Republicans look like idiots
It's like a secret society of stupid.
Because it's such an obvious joke.
Response to CousinIT (Original post)Thu Jan 25, 2018, 09:21 AM
50 Shades Of Blue (2,167 posts)
5. Johnson made a fool of himself!
No sense of humor.
Response to CousinIT (Original post)Thu Jan 25, 2018, 09:45 AM
Star Member The Velveteen Ocelot (57,125 posts)
6. Wadda maroon. If you're organizing a secret society for real,
you don't call it a secret society - especially if you're an FBI agent, who would certainly know better. You call it the Maple Street Garden Club or something (the first rule of Fight Club and all that). Only stupid GOPers desperately looking for dirt would claim that an obviously tongue-in-cheek reference to a secret society means there is a real secret society
You get the idea.
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Hey lurking shitgibbons, do you remember this funny joke from Trump?
"Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing, I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press."
That wasn't a joke, that was TREASON! Right?
Wed Jul 27, 2016, 10:12 AM
Star Member Hissyspit (45,783 posts)
Donald Trump Says He Wants Russia to Find Clinton's Missing Emails
https://upload.democraticunderground.com/10141532834Response to Hissyspit (Original post)Wed Jul 27, 2016, 10:25 AM
matt819 (6,230 posts)
4. This traitor is receiving intelligence briefings!! (nt)
Response to Hissyspit (Original post)Wed Jul 27, 2016, 10:38 AM
KittyWampus (55,894 posts)
6. This is inappropriate. That is beyond inappropriate. He is unhinged.
Response to Hissyspit (Original post)Wed Jul 27, 2016, 10:40 AM
Star Member Kingofalldems (26,273 posts)
7. So is it treason yet?
I think so.
Response to Hissyspit (Original post)Wed Jul 27, 2016, 10:42 AM
63splitwindow (2,657 posts)
9. Is there anything, ANYTHING, this traitor would not hand to ANY foreign power...
if he thought it would benefit him or his candidacy to do so?
Response to sofa king (Reply #19)Wed Jul 27, 2016, 11:20 AM
anamandujano (7,004 posts)
26. Who would set this in motion?
"I am beginning to suspect that Trump is about to have a sit-down with the FBI, and they're going to offer him a deal: dropping out of the race would serve national security interests without having to imprison him for life. "
Response to sofa king (Reply #12)Wed Jul 27, 2016, 10:51 AM
Star Member Zoonart (2,006 posts)
15. We cannot let this go into the MSM memory hole
TRUMP=TREASON
Boom! goes the dynamite!
Response to Hissyspit (Original post)Wed Jul 27, 2016, 10:57 AM
Democat (11,617 posts)
17. NYTimes "Trump sanctioning a foreign power’s cyberspying"
Donald J. Trump said Wednesday that he hoped Russia had hacked Hillary Clinton’s email, essentially sanctioning a foreign power’s cyberspying of a secretary of state’s correspondence.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/28/us/politics/donald-trump-russia-clinton-emails.html
Response to Hissyspit (Original post)Wed Jul 27, 2016, 11:33 AM
TomCADem (11,715 posts)
29. Republican Nominee Sanctions Foreign Espionage
...against political opponents.
Response to Hissyspit (Original post)Wed Jul 27, 2016, 11:36 AM
Grey Lemercier (1,429 posts)
30. how can this TRAITOR get security clearance for briefings??
I am seriously losing my mind here.
Response to Hissyspit (Original post)Wed Jul 27, 2016, 11:41 AM
Laser102 (816 posts)
31. My husband and I just called our local FBI about trump encouraging foreign governments to hack
into the DNC and Clinton's computers with the promise of pay. I suggest everyone who is equally outraged do the same.
Response to Hissyspit (Original post)Wed Jul 27, 2016, 12:04 PM
onehandle (51,122 posts)
34. More proof that Trump is working with the new Soviet Russia. nt
Response to Hissyspit (Original post)Wed Jul 27, 2016, 12:21 PM
Star Member DesertRat (18,809 posts)
36. This has huge national security implications
#TreasonousTrump
Response to Hissyspit (Original post)Wed Jul 27, 2016, 02:51 PM
Star Member Botany (45,821 posts)
46. "Trump urges Russia to hack Clinton’s emails"*
aka Trump urges breaking the law and Russia trying to fix US elections.
If Trump doesn't back down on this then he might not make to the election.
I don't know if he is calling for treason, or breaking the Hatch act, or just breaking
the law but this a BFD.
The FBI secret society is going down--for TREASON!
