Former Clinton White House Adviser Sidney Blumenthal recounts his original reporting exposing a Trump ally’s Ukraine plot, and dissects the Trump strategy as an effort to make Joe Biden suffer the political fate of Hillary Clinton in 2016 – an endless barrage of “investigation” related negative coverage, even if there is no ultimate indictment. Blumenthal – who was also a witness in the Ken Starr probe – says the Giuliani Ukraine plot must be understood as attempt to provide the “functional equivalent” of “how the emails worked against Hillary Clinton,” a campaign to smear and damage by innuendo regardless of the underlying facts. In this exclusive interview on The Beat with Ari Melber, Blumenthal and Melber discuss the additional irony that this very plot may have hurt Trump more than Biden, triggering the House vote for a full impeachment probe. Aired on 11/12/19.
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WH Aide: Trump Will Get Himself Impeached For Craven Plot To Make Ukraine Biden's 'Emails' Of 2020
Innocent people have nothing to hide and are anxious to tell their truth…..
D Mack lol, just shedding light on your guys insane hypocrisy and double standards
Scott Allen exactly, I’m glad you agree. So Hillary should be jailed. She disregarded and destroyed subpoenaed documents. You say you’re informed but you seem to be unaware she did this. It’s right out in the open buddy
@Nolan Mendoza, if Hillary did break the law, yes, she should face the consequences as should Trump. Is your argument that Hillary got away with something and so should Trump?
@Scott Allen No. Anyone who breaks the law should face the consequences. My point is that we actually have evidence that Hillary broke the law, and we don’t hear a peep from the left. So far there is no concrete evidence that Trump broke the law, and they’re calling for impeachment. The fact is they just don’t want Trump as President. Doesn’t matter if it’s Russia, doesn’t matter if it’s Ukraine. They’ll use anything to try and get rid of him, regardless if it’s true or not. My point is to highlight the hypocrisy and double standards of the left.
Yeah…you said that about russia collusion too.
They’ve been saying this since day 1…
@Rhyta that’s the thinking I like. I’m saying that the government is the most corrupt, dishonest group of people. The fact they would suggest this should make you question their intent. Which is mainly to collect resources from weaker countries to line their pockets and gain more power. I’m simply saying that conspiracy does exist.
@sKuffy magee I believe I have a healthy skepticism that I use frequently. I know conspiracy exists, I just don’t see it everywhere. I find myself wondering how everything Trump does is someone else’s fault. How there is always something, some lame excuse to explain his actions. A man who has never admitted to any mistakes in his whole life. A man who is a pathological liar is not a reliable source of information and that is scary to think he is running this country.
@Rhyta well I’m saying dont dismiss information from a government watchdog group that takes the federal government to court to get this information. I dont think it’s wrong to question the failure of a group like the cia when they run guns. Drugs. And fund terrorist groups.
@sKuffy magee Don’t disagree with shedding light on questionable behavior. That’s why I take seriously charges that Russia interfered with our elections and the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee agreed with those findings. Now we are seeing another attempt to mess with our elections again, Trump is a dangerous man who needs to be stopped.
“Uh uh uh uh uh uh uh” try spittin it out! Go ahead! Try spitting it out 🤣🤣
Funny I don’t hear John Solomon doing the “h uh uh uh uh uh uh”” routine…..mainly because he deals with fact, not conjecture.
@DJ-RocketMan why do you know if he’s a kiddo
Angry Sasquatch 👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮👹👹👹👹🤧🤧🤧🤧🤧❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌
People who lie to harm others are evil.
Then you are talking about the Christian Conservative and the white supremacists.
@Snowyblu As opposed to Fox?
Trump derangement syndrome is real
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty. Nathaniel Hawthorne
@Surfwynd , I don’t know if Hesse was accurate with that quote. There are qualities a sadistic sociopath has that most people don’t possess, but if a man with such qualities rapes, tortures, and murders somebody you know or others you relate to, it’s not a reflection on you to despise them. I guess it’s healthier to be more detached though – seeing them less as monsters and more like malignant tumors or toxic waste – not aware of the damage they inflict or responsible for their existence.
Roasted Locust I love it! Perfect!
Surfwynd yes very true. We hate in others what we see in ourselves.
@Roasted Locust With regard to the Trumps, I hope another Hawthorne quote is more appropriate.
‘Families are always rising and falling in America’. Or, better still, the F Scott Fitzgerald quote
‘There are no second acts in American lives. Speaking of which, is Hilary still dropping hints about
running in the 2020 election? Someone should shoot that disaster in a pantsuit.
@Snaggle Toothed , if Hillary runs again, I’m voting 3rd party again. That said, if I thought my vote would decide between her and Trump, I’d probably choke down down some Hillary at this point though.
Wait wait wait, i know the next line….”The walls are closing in on him” 😂😂
@JR N yes,
🎉⛄ Impeachment Greetings To All🎄⛄
@TheRewivsMan Tv Groper
@Urban Libertarian LOL Wanna say anything about what was actually said in the clip and be a big boy or just say its delusional and be a little boy?
@M Murph lolz
If you say it offen enough people will start to believe it because of the repetition. Thats how you sell a product. Wash rense repeat.
Exactly!!
Like maga?
rinse
Barbara H – that’s how the Nazi propaganda machine worked. Trump has learn this lesson well. And just like the German people, large numbers of Americans people believe his lies.
Is this how we avoid talking about Epstein and who flew to his island to screw little kids?
Or about Russian disinformation campaigns?
Brian Conner No, that’s a different story. You have to learn that more than 1 thing can be happening at a time.
Most people learn about this long before they become 10 years old, so I wish you luck in your belated development.
Brilliant comment mate!
Trump was on Epstein’s guest list.
Why is Moscow Mitch is blocking a bill to prevent vote tampering, by having paper ballots in all 50 states?
Heavy rubles in his republican pocket
@Cat Williams traitor trump and moscow mitch. Really? How old are you? Leave the nicknames to trump. You’re an embarassment.
CUZ HE’S A CONSTITUTION KILLER, AS WELL AS ALL GOP, CLOWN IN CHIEF, FOX NEWS AND SO ON!
Just remove the walking corpse already.
Failed businesses, failed marriages, collaborating with our russian enemies, impeachment, that’s a remarkable lack of success in life even for Trump!!! LOL…Sooner or later all criminals pay for their deeds, they NEVER get away with it. Trump will get his due.
M T 👍👍👍👍👍
Just shows you how bad the government is with all the career politicians and beurocrats. We elected a President outside of politics to take a chance. He has been doing everything he ran on(under constant attack) and then some. So what if he’s a little arrogant. He believes in God, his country, and himself. Those qualities make a good leader in my books, regardless of his personality.
And the worst I believe M T is the racist immigration policies Trump and S. Miller inflicting on innocent refugees, asylum seekers, immigrants, DACA children. Trump will get his due in this world and even worse in the next.
@Keg lol
Rofl trolls been here I see. Jim Jordan is gop garbage.
Aww look at the trolls, still believing in trolling, how old fashioned 😀
boomer still thinks the word ‘trolling’ is relevant, how old fashioned
@Royaldirtman Your hatred is defiling.
@D Boyes ??
@Royaldirtman Defining someone by their age is not so smart and it is ugly.
@D Boyes what? Are you angry? Are you a little boomer-woomer who got their feelings hurt? Need papa to cover up that booboo?
Arguing that Monica Lewinsky “came onto him” reminds us of how despicable Bill Clinto was during the whole Lewinsky affair.
I don’t think he should have been impeached for lying about his affair with her, but his tactics in defending himself (ie. blame her, play the victim) was low.
The trolls all get sent to one vid, every other MSNBC vid today has a like dislike ratio nothing like this.
The trolls/bots are out heavy tonight.
Bots, are ignorable. They’re on the skids and so is the occupant of your White House. Loser all.
Yes, Trump is trying to repeat his 2016 campaign by making a focused smear campaign against a political opponent and getting another country to help him do it.
Somewhere along the line , the truth has been lost .
It’s not lost, it is obscured.
I watched a part of the impeachment hearings this morning and listened to nunes put on a show that makes me sick, if these trump followers keep up this b.s. rhetoric no sane voter will elect another republican for a very long time.
Unfortunately there is a lot of insanity showing up lately.
That Mr.Nunes is So Full of S** T. Makes me Just 😷.
You can look at Nunes Face, and Tell he was about To Dirty His Pants. Just Sitting there Lying like the No GOOD POS. That he is. Needs To take His Head Out Of Trump’s BUTT, and get some fresh Air. IJS.
@Benjamin
no SANE voter has elected a Repud in a LOOOOOONG time….
the FOX Noise Indoctrinated Trump voters, are NOT REMOTELY CLOSE to sane.
When is dereliction of duty ever a thing?
Trump “I have the best impeachment ”
Somebody ,anybody go back in time and give trump’s daddy a free castration or a condom .