'Americans don't look to Chinese commies for the truth': Sasse decries Trump's call for probe

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Omaha World Herald

By Joseph Morton

WASHINGTON — Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., took issue Thursday with President Donald Trump urging China to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son’s business dealings there.

"Hold up: Americans don’t look to Chinese commies for the truth,” Sasse said in a written statement to The World-Herald. “If the Biden kid broke laws by selling his name to Beijing, that’s a matter for American courts, not communist tyrants running torture camps."

At the same time, Sasse also offered harsh words for Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. During a hearing last week, Schiff referred to the summary of a phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Schiff presented “the essence of what the president communicates” during the call and spoke as if he were Trump asking Zelensky to manufacture dirt on his political opponent.

While Schiff defenders say it was clear he wasn’t providing the president’s exact words, critics have slammed him for spreading misinformation by making up misleading quotes and putting them in Trump’s mouth.




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[EveHammond13]

1. BEN SASSE YOU PUT A RAPIST ON THE SUPREME COURT. You sold your soul.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

2. Ooh, Sasse gettin' sassy! Listen to him trying to talk all tough. "Commies." LOL

[agingdem]

6. Commie???

Sasse must be channeling Joe McCarthy and binge-watching old Cold War movies..

[EveHammond13]

3. you know who broke the law selling herself in China? IVANKA

[dchill]

4. Put your money where your mouth is, Benjo...

Call for impeachment. Otherwise, fuck off.

[PSPS]

7. "What did Biden do in China that needs investigating?" -- Nothing, of course. Just trying to smear.

[Lulu KC]

8. Commies?? n/t

[onetexan]

10. Sasse's cultural roots are on display.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. It's the big lie: "If Biden ..." blows a little smoke & low-info types assume there is fire.

The essence of a "big lie" is that it is whispered and repeated and mooted about and alluded to and posited as what-if and what-about and referenced in so many ways so often that suckers think it is true. If cornered on it, Republicons will say shit like "We just want the facts to commit. If Biden ..." and then they are off again on it.

[NYC Liberal]

15. It's what they did to Hillary for 30 years.

The people who “just didn’t like her” could rarely explain why; they just “didn’t”.

[beachbumbob]

12. cracks are forming and we must put every republican on the spot on whether they support the use

commie/ex-commie provided help against americans.

[bucolic_frolic]

13. Being Sasse in a misleading article

Schiff didn't make up quotes. He spoke to the framework and logic of the conversation.

Sasse is like a weak philosopher who spews platitudes to no one in the forest.

[Maeve]

14. Y'know, I'm glad he's coming out against tRump, but....

It's sorta like him saying about the border, "That's not how you treat wetbacks"--his prejudice makes him casually insult the wrong people

[machoneman]

16. Ironic that when trumpy puts words into any Democrat's mouth it's a-o.k. with them. Odd too....

that when they claim a host of falsehoods about our side, the rest are silent or fully concur.