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progressoid

(50,747 posts)
Mon Jul 13, 2020, 02:35 PM Jul 2020

Joni Ernst: People investigating Trump are just like cop who killed George Floyd

'We're trying to ferret those people out.'


Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) compared the police officer who killed George Floyd to the Justice Department officials investigating Donald Trump, during an interview with a local radio station earlier this month.

"The example of George Floyd, you know, that was a bad actor, a bad policeman. We do have bad actors at the FBI and Justice Department as well," Ernst told KXEL, an Iowa talk radio station, on July 3 referring to investigations into Trump prior to the 2016 election.

"And so we're trying to ferret those people out," she continued. "We want to know how far this goes. Is it from just some bad actors in a basement somewhere at DOJ and FBI, or does that rise all the way to the top to President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden?"

...https://americanindependent.com/joni-ernst-donald-trump-investigations-george-floyd-police-fbi-justice-department-senate-gop/?fbclid=IwAR0rt1oMHEmXvSxA6qJSwdcjZsVDOAu4IQMADTJSceSDCcwQoX8vl8A7Aps
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Joni Ernst: People investigating Trump are just like cop who killed George Floyd (Original Post) progressoid Jul 2020 OP
she might as well fellate Trump on Fox prime time. Thomas Hurt Jul 2020 #1
EWWWWWWWWWWWWWW! 47of74 Jul 2020 #17
start packing, Joni... samnsara Jul 2020 #2
My God Ohiogal Jul 2020 #3
Keep clinging to the Titanic, Joni Happyhippychick Jul 2020 #4
She did say "Deep Dive into the Situation" in the audio link. IADEMO2004 Jul 2020 #20
Bwaaa ha ha ha. Looonacy. Champp Jul 2020 #5
She does resemble a ferret. LakeArenal Jul 2020 #6
Thanks for this little nugget rurallib Jul 2020 #7
Joni Ernst is a blithering idiot. madaboutharry Jul 2020 #8
Money I_UndergroundPanther Jul 2020 #12
Phony Joni is full of baloney.. Do right in November, Iowa Hassler Jul 2020 #9
Hello Lincoln Project? Me. Jul 2020 #10
Senator Bread Wrappers Wellstone ruled Jul 2020 #11
Hey now... progressoid Jul 2020 #13
Sorry, Wellstone ruled Jul 2020 #14
Not as bad as NW Iowa though. progressoid Jul 2020 #15
Oh how I agree, Wellstone ruled Jul 2020 #16
Every time she or Kimmy pipe up I have to force the bile back down in to my stomach AND... 47of74 Jul 2020 #18
Hope things work out for you. progressoid Jul 2020 #19
I had a scheduled Dr's visit after a Joni town hall meeting and my BP so high I couldn't leave IADEMO2004 Jul 2020 #21
It's infuriating. progressoid Jul 2020 #23
Going after those liberal deep state GOP members of The Senate Intelligence Committee too. IADEMO2004 Jul 2020 #22
 

47of74

(18,470 posts)
17. EWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!
Mon Jul 13, 2020, 05:00 PM
Jul 2020

Trying very, very hard not to picture that!

Now if you'll excuse me time for this!


Champp

(2,114 posts)
5. Bwaaa ha ha ha. Looonacy.
Mon Jul 13, 2020, 02:42 PM
Jul 2020

Stop chomping on the hog nuts, Joni. They have addled curdled your tragically short supply of brain cells.

madaboutharry

(41,356 posts)
8. Joni Ernst is a blithering idiot.
Mon Jul 13, 2020, 02:50 PM
Jul 2020

She is dumb. Plain. Ol'. Fashioned. Dumb.

How do these vapid people get so far in politics? It perplexes me.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
14. Sorry,
Mon Jul 13, 2020, 04:31 PM
Jul 2020

got some rellies in that area and quit communicating a couple decades ago. Can only tolerate their crap just so long,can not choose your Rellies. BTW,they are members of the hard core wing nut Lutherans in that area.

progressoid

(50,747 posts)
15. Not as bad as NW Iowa though.
Mon Jul 13, 2020, 04:35 PM
Jul 2020

That's were I have some family (and business contacts).

I only interact with a handful of people in that area. It's fucking scary up there.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
16. Oh how I agree,
Mon Jul 13, 2020, 04:42 PM
Jul 2020

have not had to interact with any Business in that area since 02'. It was bad then and that cult like garbage extends along the Western Minnesota border to just south of Marshall.

 

47of74

(18,470 posts)
18. Every time she or Kimmy pipe up I have to force the bile back down in to my stomach AND...
Mon Jul 13, 2020, 05:05 PM
Jul 2020

...fight the urge to move out of Iowa. Iowa might lose that battle since I'm looking at jobs in Minnesota now since I've had some bad job related news.

progressoid

(50,747 posts)
19. Hope things work out for you.
Mon Jul 13, 2020, 09:06 PM
Jul 2020

We have been trying to get our house ready for sale for the last 1-2 years with the hope of getting out of here too. Of course with the Trump economy, selling now might not be a good idea. We might have to wait a year of so longer until the economy improves.

IADEMO2004

(5,880 posts)
21. I had a scheduled Dr's visit after a Joni town hall meeting and my BP so high I couldn't leave
Tue Jul 14, 2020, 12:28 PM
Jul 2020

until it went down. I never have high blood pressure and haven't since. This was a few months after my wife died of cancer. We had Obamacare and thank heaven we did. Ernst is such a sack of bullshit. She is the perfect GOP senator no inquisitiveness, no interest in facts, truth, Iowa, or Iowans. Dollars from Donors is her only game.

She went to high school in Stanton. Welcome sign used to have the phrase "Little White City" (the house paint).

I shit you not.

progressoid

(50,747 posts)
23. It's infuriating.
Tue Jul 14, 2020, 03:24 PM
Jul 2020

All the wonderful leadership from our senators, governor, and the white house is not helping my blood pressure one bit. I've been taking BP meds for most of the last 4 years.

So sorry about your wife.

IADEMO2004

(5,880 posts)
22. Going after those liberal deep state GOP members of The Senate Intelligence Committee too.
Tue Jul 14, 2020, 01:58 PM
Jul 2020
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/21/senate-intel-report-confirms-russia-aimed-to-help-trump-in-2016-198171


Tuesday's bipartisan report, from a panel chaired by North Carolina Republican Richard Burr, undercuts Trump's years of efforts to portray allegations of Kremlin assistance to his campaign as a "hoax," driven by Democrats and a “deep state” embedded within the government bureaucracy.

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“The fact that you have a committee with members that range from John Cornyn and Tom Cotton to Dianne Feinstein and Ron Wyden coming to a unanimous conclusion that that report was correct and was soundly based, I think is very significant in light of the continuing questions about what did the Russians do and how did they do it,” Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), a member of the intelligence panel, said in an interview.

“This puts it to rest,” he added.

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Ernst's Senate office is some kind of information black hole that prevents her knowing anything about everything.
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