NBC’s Chuck Todd pressed Senator Ron Johnson (R-MN) on Meet The Press by asking why President Donald Trump’sconduct supposedly isn’t to blame for the Ukraine scandal.

As Todd and Johnson went back and forth on why Trump wanted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to publicly announce an investigation into Joe Biden’s family, the senator presented a favorable perspective on the timeline for America’s arrangement to provide military aid to Ukraine.

“You seem to blame this on everybody but the president,” Todd reacted to Johnson’s objection. “It was the president’s actions… You’re blaming everybody else for the reason we’re in this situation, other than the president. Isn’t the president’s own behavior, which raised all of these yellow and red flags, isn’t is that why we’re here?”

“I’m sympathetic with President Trump as he has been tormented from the day after his election,” Johnson responded. He continued to deflect from Todd’s question by attacking the Ukraine whistleblower for hiring Mark Zaid, an anti-Trump proponent, as his lawyer.

Todd moved on by digging up a series of old comments from Johnson, noting that the senator seemed to lean toward impeaching Hillary Clinton for her actions if she had been elected president in 2016.

“How should viewers not look at what you are doing here and you’re just reacting as a partisan that if Trump were a Democrat, you’d be ready to convict him?” Todd asked.

Watch the clip. Chuck Todd LAUGHING IN HIS FACE was a personal highlight.

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/chuck-todd-grills-gop-sen-ron-johnson-on-ukraine-you-seem-to-blame-this-on-everybody-but-the-president/

we are a country of the haves and have nots.

Posted by dino27 on 11/17/2019 11:36:00 AM (view original):
we are a country of the haves and have nots.

HOW does that pertain to Johnson getting NAILED as HYPOCRITE on MTP?

some have patriotism and some dont.

Posted by dino27 on 11/17/2019 11:58:00 AM (view original):
some have patriotism and some dont.

Fantastic point. These rupugs all look like cornered badgers fighting for a political life in a post-orange world. Patriotism is COMPLETELY out the window for guys like Johnson. An actual patriot is someone who sees that Dems overall did NOT want to do this and have done so anyway because the Constitution and Rules of Law dictated that they HAD to, politics be damned. If anyone thinks Dems actually “wanted” this then they are lying to themselves. This became about a lot more than politics and more about truth and law and Dems taking the risk of the “cornered badger syndrome” just didn’t matter anymore in the eyes of CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR the likes of which haven’t been seen since Nixon.

MTP host Chuck Todd made one other VERY interesting comparison at the end of today’s show. After saying that he believes we WILL be hearing from Bolton at some point in these proceedings, Todd asked the open question of whether Bolton is starting to look a lot like John Dean.

Do your homework and see exactly what that means.

great stuff.

Posted by dino27 on 11/17/2019 1:28:00 PM (view original):
great stuff.

My thoughts exactly. It’s embarrassing the way these guys like Johnson deflect to their talking points. The damage they’re doing to the repugnant party is going to hurt them for several years and political cycles.

thats a good thing.