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The Hartmann Report

Daily Take: Comer & Jordan are Mainstreaming Political Poison into the Bloodstream of Democracy

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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🗓️ 23 February 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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They don’t care that democracy, here and around the world, is hanging by a thread…

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Comer and Jordan are mainstreaming political poison into the bloodstream of our democracy.

0:07.0

Useful idiots doesn't begin to describe the treason weasel twins, Comer and Jordan, who are enthusiastically promoting

0:14.2

zombie lies Russia came up with in 2016 to help Trump win the White House.

0:18.4

They're mainstreaming political poison directly into the bloodstream of our body politic, purely for political profit.

0:25.8

Let him repute and Putin always knew that he couldn't beat America militarily, so his next

0:29.6

best option was to infiltrate our political system and seize control of the GOP.

0:34.0

It increasingly looks like he's pulled it off, right down to blocking USAID to Ukraine for over

0:38.8

a year.

0:39.8

Jim Jordan and James Comi, Jeff Tiedrich calls them the two Jimmy's, are apparently determined to continue carrying water for Vladimir Putin.

0:47.5

Now that they know for certain that their source for phony claims that Joe Biden took a five million dollar bribe was an agent of Russian oligarchs

0:54.1

tied to Putin, both nonetheless insist that they're going to continue with their

0:58.1

witch hunt against Biden.

1:00.5

In this, they're going along with a Russian intelligence operation explicitly designed to make Donald Trump president and thus crush American democracy and the threat we represent to Russian expansionism.

1:12.0

Back in 2016, heading into that year's presidential

1:14.7

election Russia had its guy buried deeply within the FBI. His name was Charles

1:19.9

McGonigal. He ran the Cyber Counterintelligence Coordination Section in Washington getting direct reports

1:26.2

from FBI agents who were monitoring Russian espionage activities in the U.S.

1:33.0

It spent the previous decades steadily climbing within the FBI's counter-espionage operations.

1:38.1

In 22, 2002, McGonical was made a field supervisor for the FBI's counter-espionage

1:44.4

section at FBI headquarters. In 2006 he became a field supervisor for a

1:48.6

counter-espionage squad operating out of the Washington DC field office.

1:53.4

In 2010 he was involved in the investigation of Chelsea Manning's collaboration with WikiLeaks.

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