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The knives came out on ABC during their Sunday morning programming as they made President Trump and the GOP the target of their hyperbolic smear campaign following the release of the House Intelligence Committee memo detailing alleged misconduct by the FBI and Justice Department. And at one point during This Week, host George Stephanopoulos and Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz suggested that the “discord” and “mistrust” sowed by Republicans was ultimately helping Russian President Vladimir Putin.
After reading a statement from Arizona Senator John McCain (R) asserting something similar, Stephanopoulos was in awe of how much of a return Putin was getting for his efforts. “When you think about the investment that Vladimir Putin in intervening – interfering in our election it is paying off every day in spades,” he chided. His slip-up with using the term “intervening” may indicate that he actually believes the Russians changed the outcome of the election since he’s a Clinton lackey.
Raddatz’s agreed with Stephanopoulos and ridiculously asserted that, in a way, he had won the Super Bowl because of Republicans. “He won the Super Bowl. He really-- Putin has won the Super Bowl here. Exactly what he wanted to happen in this country, this discord, this mistrust of institutions is exactly why they operate this way,” she spat.
That moment was really a crescendo in their anti-Republican screed that had been building for most of the morning. During the previous hour, on Good Morning America, correspondent David Wright parroted Democratic Party talking points and claimed: “House Republicans who voted along party lines to release that document of being part and parcel of an organized event to obstruct the special counsel investigation.”
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