Former Hillary Clinton campaign chair John Podesta reacted Friday to the news that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe had led to the indictment of 12 Russian intelligence officials for hacking into various computers, including Podesta’s, to meddle in the 2016 election.
“Well George, I think at the heart of all this is that crimes were committed against individual Americans, including myself, but also that crimes were committed against the American democracy,” Podesta told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. “And I think that Donald Trump likes to describe this as a witch hunt—well we just found some witches, and they were indicted.”
“This is something people knew had happened all along, that underlying all of this, crimes were committed and that’s why the Mueller investigation has been so important and why it needs to be continued in an unfettered manner,” he continued.
Watch below:
JUST IN: John Podesta on new indictments: “Donald Trump likes to describe this as a witch hunt—well, we just found some witches, and they were indicted.” https://t.co/BHK5sr6LRC pic.twitter.com/YRk9gb1XlP
— ABC News (@ABC) July 13, 2018
“We just found some witches…”
That’ll leave a mark.
Nice trolling, Mr. Podesta…
Well Played Mr. Podesta.
Now for aMariotti twitter thread:
(click on to get the series/tread of tweets.
Well, in a sane world this would show just how craven the Republicans were yesterday. Another 12 indictments of Russians who interfered in the election to help Trump, but the Republicans want to talk about a handful of text messages between lovers and portray them as an effort to influence the election…the absurdity of the comparison between these two things should be laughable. Sadly, a large fraction of the nation will believe that a couple people could undo an election on their own, or at least try, in spite of all the safeguards.
Though, Comey’s actions show an example of exactly that happening, but in a way that benefitted Trump…too bad they aren’t patriotic enough to understand how wrong those actions were.
So Mueller’s indicted Viktor Krum and his co-conspirators at the Durmstrang Institute.
How about we round up the American witches now?