Rachel Maddow Perfectly Explains Why The People Will Have To Bring Down Trump Themselves

[Amaryllis]

With all of the Congressional investigations being controlled by Republicans affiliated with the Trump campaign, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow showed why it would be up to the people and the press to find the answers on the Russia scandal that could bring down Trump.

Maddow said,

Does this mean that we are finally going get access to what he knows? That we are finally going to get hear what backs this up? Is the Senate Intelligence Committee going to call him and have him testify like NBC reported late last week? Well, we called the Senate Intelligence Committee tonight, and they told us no, probably not. The press secretary to the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee told us, ‘It is not at all likely. At least, not at this moment.’ Christopher Steele is back. He’s alive. He’s out there. You guys investigating this wanna talk to him?

So far, it is us as American citizens. It is us in the press who are connecting the dots on this story, who are figuring this out. Do we have any reason to believe that any government official investigation into this scandal is doing the same? Honestly, it is a DOJ controlled by a Trump campaign official, or it’s two intelligence committees each controlled by a Trump, campaign official. Support your free press. It is really starting to feel like we’re going to have to do this ourselves."

The statements from the Republicans leading the intelligence committees that they will look at Trump’s allegation that Obama wiretapped him strongly suggest that the Congress can’t be trusted to do an independent investigation. With Jeff Sessions looming over the DOJ, it is unlikely that the FBI will be able to conduct an independent investigation.

If you want to understand why Democrats are demanding a special prosecutor, look no further than who is overseeing the investigations.

There is a giant scandal hanging over this White House. It is the kind of scandal that ruins a president and his party.

Republicans have a vested interest in protecting Trump.

They might be able to bury this scandal in Congress, but they can’t stop the free press and the American people from uncovering and spreading the truth.

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http://www.politicususa.com/2017/03/08/rachel-maddow-perfectly-explains-people-bring-trump.html

[tazkcmo]

1. With due respect to Rachel Maddow

This isn't news. It's the reason the press is mentioned in the Constitution. It's very depressing when a well respected news media anchor expresses surprise or disappointment when they realize the PRESS (them) will have to actually do their frigging jobs. Geez.

[Amaryllis]

5. Her point, i think, is that we cannot rely on ANY of the govt bodies who are charged with

investigating criminal activity, since they are all headed up by those who are complicit, and therefore it will be up to the press and the people. Not that the press wouldn't be responsible for uncovering it anyway but the house and senate intel committees are charged with that and are compromised. That being said, Senator Wyden on senate intel is all over this but I don't know what it takes to get the Rs on board, and what provisions there are for Dems to do anything without them on board.

[tazkcmo]

8. And my point

is it's what politicians in power do (obstruct, ignore, etc) EVERY time and why is she surprised? Even if the party in power was cooperative, the press, as our unofficial 4th branch of government, should be on the ball and digging out corruption EVERY day.

Apparently, the fact that the GOPee and the Shitgibbon Campaign don't want to investigate their own corruption surprises her. It shouldn't.

[Paladin]

10. I think you're short-changing Rachel by describing her as merely "surprised."

She's at the very forefront of discovering, researching and reporting the seemingly unending instances of corruption this new regime is clearly guilty of. Nobody else in the MSM is even coming close to Rachel's steady, day-by-day, old-style news work. She may be dismayed by how bad things are...but luckily for us, I think she lost her "surprise" a while back.....

[caroldansen]

2. Thank you for posting that. And thank you Rachel!

[luvMIdog]

3. I'm trying not to give up hope but

I'm terrified that no one will do anything to fix this

[Amaryllis]

6. Senator Wyden is all over it. Here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028675751
Took notes for you guys on what Sen. Wyden (Senate Intel) said about Russia/Trump in town hall today

And this:
Senator Wyden is Hell-bent on Getting Out the Truth About Trump and Russia (Mother Jones)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016177278

And this:
Wyden, cheered by Oregonians to probe a Trump-Russia connection, must keep up the fight: Editorial
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2017/02/wyden_cheered_by_oregonians_to.html

They can't hide forever.

[luvMIdog]

7. thank you. I so so hope they get rid of that criminal and friends

[Tom the Mechanic]

13. I think that's Rachel's point

The "no one" you fear, is you and me.

[trusty elf]

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[Mr. Ected]

9. So the White House will cover-up, the Congress will cover-up

The press will uncover, and the American people will...not pay a bit of attention.

Apathy, together with a huge dose of right wing propaganda, will nullify every effort made by the press.

Americans are dooming America.

Eventually, though, they'll get around to blaming the Democrat.

[Amaryllis]

11. Based on RAchel's ratings and turnout at town halls, people are paying a lot of attentionn.

[Mr. Ected]

12. Rachel is preaching to the choir

It's just that the choir is paying a helluva lot more attention right now than they ever did with President Obama in office.

In the end, it's the independents acting in concert with Democrats that are going to determine whether the American people are going to excise this cancerous material from our body politic.

[Tom the Mechanic]

14. Agreed! Preaching to the Choir.

I wish there was a way for all these facts to be in front of Fox viewers.
They only get to see the brain washing.