A GOP STAFFER CROWDSOURCED AN ANTI-CLINTON RESOLUTION FROM REDDIT

[Skidmore]

Caps in article“s title. Trumps GOP is nasty.

https://www.wired.com/story/republican-staffer-the-donald-resolution

THIS PAST WEDNESDAY, a group of Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee presented an amendment calling for an investigation into alleged misconduct on the parts of Hillary Clinton and James Comey. It was a way to frustrate Democrats, but, more than that, it provided an opportunity to publicly discuss their very favorite thing: the many bygone misdeeds of Crooked Hillary. The amendment may sound to some readers like it's been ripped out of a conspiracy forum, because that's exactly what happened.
Sponsored by first-term Representative Matt Gaetz (R-Florida), the amendment itself sought to hijack what began as a resolution from Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-Washington) asking for information about Comey's firing. In response to Jayapal's proposal, Gaetz and a few fellow Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee effectively replaced the Democrats' resolution with one of their own. The new amendment (which you can read in its entirety here) asks for an investigation into things like "the propriety and consequence of immunity deals given to possible Hillary Clinton co-conspirators" and "James B. Comey’s refusal to investigate then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton regarding" a number of matters, including many of which may have come directly from r/The_Donald.

Thursday night, three Twitter users discovered that a staffer for one of the resolution’s sponsors attempted to crowdsource a number of the resolution's salient points from r/The_Donald, a subreddit notorious for playing host to unfounded conspiracy theories and anti-Islam tendencies. In other words, not a conventional source of legislative inspiration.

"If the purpose of oversight investigations is to get to the truth," one longtime legislative staffer explained, "then using baseless conspiracies as your starting point is completely counterproductive to a direct investigation."...more

[SharonClark]

1. Nasty? You are being too polite.

[mucifer]

2. I believe r/thedonald is mostly russian bots.

[Skidmore]

3. If true, I hop Mueller nauils that down and some GOP congress people in the course. nt

[mucifer]

4. The reason I think it's bots is that reddit is mostly pro Hillary anti trump

But, right before the election posts from r/thedonald were crazy popular and it didn't make sense. If you go to the general politics page you will see it's mostly liberal anti trump stuff:

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/

The threads are listed in order by popularity. I sometimes find interesting articles there and post them on DU.