CNN’s Senior Congressional Correspondent Manu Raju captured Republican Senators duck and dodge on tape when asked about President Trump being caught on tape talking to his “fixer” Michael Cohen about silencing a story about his alleged affair with a Playboy model.
“GOP senators really have no desire to talk about Trump on tape discussing with Michael Cohen a scheme to silence a story about his alleged affair with a Playboy model. WATCH,” He wrote on Twitter above this video:
GOP senators really have no desire to talk about Trump on tape discussing with Michael Cohen a scheme to silence a story about his alleged affair with a Playboy model. WATCH: https://t.co/p73DUoyJY7
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) July 25, 2018
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The duck and dodge, also known in this case as the “flounder and snicker,” is a political art form most recently perfected by the Republican Party, in which the person needs to avoid appearing to take a stand against a man who was caught on tape trying to buy off a story about an alleged affair he had with a Playboy model. After he was caught on tape bragging about grabbing women by their “p*ssy.”
This same Republican President is also under investigation for possibly colluding – but definitely did take help from – a hostile foreign government in an act of war against this country.
But Republicans really aren’t ready to take a stand against him yet.
Duck and dodge. The party of family values, in action.
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