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A lot nobody wants to believe:

-Nobody wanted to believe Speaker #DennisHastert raped high school boys.

-Nobody wanted to believe longtime federal judge #JackCamp used heavy drugs and aided and abetted a felon and illegally gave a stripper his government-issued laptop.
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-Nobody wanted to believe US Rep #EricMassa was groping young male staffers.

-Nobody wanted to believe US Rep #AnthonyWeiner was sexting a 15 yr old girl.
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-Nobody wanted to believe Senator #AlFranken would forcibly kiss someone and then subsequently take a photo pretending to grope that same woman while she slept.

-Nobody wanted to believe US Rep #JohnConyers was sexually groping and harassing his staffers.
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Exactly. The favorite word during these hearings is a "signal." (When Franken asked Silicon Valley executives about roubles paid for the elections ads, the latter answered they did not get the "signal."Soon, Franken was ruined.) Pay attention to signals, signs, body language &-->
"Freudian slips." Answering a question about his memo, Barr said "firing Mueller" instead of "firing Comey."
ps. Apparently, I am not the only one thinking of #AlFranken... and it was totally random.
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Everyone gather around I have something to get off my chest.
#TheResistance got played like a fiddle with the #AlFranken accusations. Russia or the alt right took advantage of a hot button item and got us all heated.
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Now, I'm guilty of getting worked up. Some of us took to our timelines, some of us vented to friends, some of us choose to stay quite.
My point here is most of us acted poorly. Whether it was slut shaming, or simply not letting facts about the incident in we all had a blind spot form.
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