Gotta admire the guy's ability to remain laser-focused on ignoring reason and the results of pains-taking investigations all while maintaining a straight face. I can't decide whether pencil neck, Pelousi, Cryin' Chuck or toots here is best at this.Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., reacted to the revelation that an FBI agent involved in the "Crossfire Hurricane" Russia investigation "actively listened" for certain topics during a briefing on election interference given to the Trump campaign in August 2016, saying "they were right to do it."
Well, he reacted to something anyway.
"I hope they do it if a Democratic candidate ever does that with any country," Swalwell said Friday on "The Story with Martha MacCallum." "So, Martha, remember right before this meeting occurred, candidate Trump said, 'Russia, if you're listening, I hope you have Hillary's emails.' And what do they do? They actually did it. So think about it."
Kinda makes the FBI look like a pack of fools for not being able to hack into an already offline server, doesn't it?
And speaking of investigating Dems colluding with Russians, I have a couple of ideas for you, one of whom is hiding in a basement being used as an excuse for the Dems to delay their choice of their de facto candidate for president until right before the election, which kinda makes it hard to vet them rationally.
Fox News obtained a document that reflects type-written notes by FBI agent Joe Pientka after an August 17, 2016 briefing to then-candidate Donald Trump, Michael Flynn and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie "in support of ODNI briefings provided to U.S. Presidential candidates and two of their advisors."
The briefing, which was held at the FBI's New York Field Office, also included a "13-minute defensive briefing" delivered by Pientka. The document states that FBI officials Kevin Clinesmith and Peter Strzok "approved" Pientka's notes.
Swalwell slammed Trump and accused the president of lying about being briefed.
Personal note: I don't know what this is about. Did Trump deny he was briefed on something? Did he say he was briefed on something that he wasn't briefed on? What was the "briefing" about? Was it planted info or something that Trump didn't believe?
"By the way, he says in the meeting, 'Joe, are the Russians bad?' It's like, yes, the Russians are bad and don't eat glue," Swalwell said. "Like, should we even have to tell you that? ... He told the country for years, but he was never given this briefing."
Huh? I thought above they were talking about briefing notes, but now Swallowell is claiming he wasn't briefed. Am I insane? Is the writing messed up? Is Swallowell mixing things up?
MacCallum pressed Swalwell who, stuck to beliefs that Trump conspired with Russia.
Kinda hard to rip the foundation out from under your house and still live in it, I guess.
"So President Trump was under investigation. Jim Comey said he was not. He said that to Congress under oath," MacCallum said to Swalwell. "So the president was indeed under investigation."
"What would you want a counterintelligence official to do when the president is asking the Russians to hack and they're actually hacking," Swalwell said. "I hope they look into him. I hope if Joe Biden was doing this with any other foreign country that is seeking to influence our elections that the FBI would look into it, thankfully they did not but that's kind of their job."
A little Freudian slip there.
MacCallum continued to press on the new information, saying Trump was not aware of the briefing, only for Swalwell to defend the actions of the FBI.
I wonder what his tune would be if he were the unknowing target of such an investigation.
"He's given pictures and graphs now because he doesn't have the attention span to listen," the congressman said.
Is that what the political cartoon you saw said? And as a person who likes pictures and graphs, aka data, eff you too, you self-righteous, superior moron.