Be sure you’re right before you open your mouth and stick your foot in it. That’s a bit of advice that Sen. Claire McCaskill should have heeded — but didn’t.
And she’s not alone.
Sen. Joe Manchin told CNN Thursday morning that meeting the Russian Ambassador is not unusual for senators — especially those who sit on the Senate Armed Services Committee.
The West Virginia Democrat made his statement in support of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who claimed that he’d met Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak several times on Armed Services Committee business during the 2016 presidential campaign.
McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat, disputed that claim, and shot back that throughout her 10 year membership in that committee, she’d never had occasion to meet the Russian ambassador.
I’ve been on the Armed Services Com for 10 years.No call or meeting w/Russian ambassador. Ever. Ambassadors call members of Foreign Rel Com.
— Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) March 2, 2017
One of McCaskill’s followers suggested that given this information, Sessions should resign his attorney general post. McCaskill was in agreement and called for just that.
@clairecmc please call for his resignation.
— Fran Marie ? (@STLblogera) March 2, 2017
As the chief law enforcement officer in this nation,he should resign.He sets the example,good prosecutor knows better pic.twitter.com/R0uO4DcPxy
— Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) March 2, 2017
Apparently she forgot a few meetings — these meetings:
McCaskill tried to weasel herself out of the statement when the flashback tweets started flooding in, and insisted she never met with the Ambassador “one on one.”
4 years ago went to meeting of many Senators about international adoptions. Russian Amb also attended.
— Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) March 2, 2017
But it didn’t do much good to quell the backlash:
Weird, @clairecmc, how this went from “meeting with” to “also attended,” isn’t it? Guess facts are malleable based on your political need. pic.twitter.com/VBHXd7pywZ
— Derek Hunter (@derekahunter) March 2, 2017
And it didn’t take long for others to find the facts and call for McCaskill’s resignation.
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@STLblogera @clairecmc Then she needs to resign to. She just said she’s NEVER met w Russian ambassador pic.twitter.com/7RYH8Uzde2
— VK (@vjeannek) March 2, 2017
No, @clairecmc, you should resign. For actually lying. pic.twitter.com/8EJ3EAOMg0
— Yes, Nick $earcy! (@yesnicksearcy) March 2, 2017
.@clairecmc Care to comment on your tweets about speaking & meeting with RUSSIA while on the committee with Sen SESSIONS? #FakeNews #MAGA pic.twitter.com/1d02OFgeXG
— CC (@ChristiChat) March 2, 2017
At least one person found what could have been an excuse for McCaskill to latch on to.
Apparently this Russian ambassador guy is really forgettable… https://t.co/gdTt5AcHkV
— Paul Singer (@singernews) March 2, 2017
But would it work for the 30 other senators — Democrats all — who had met Russian diplomats? Did they all find the experience as forgettable as did apparently McCaskill?
Sean Davis, a co-founder of The Federalist, did a little digging and reported:
Up to 30 Senate Democrats (!) met with Russian diplomats in 2015 to help grease the skids for Obama’s Iran deal. https://t.co/GhZnMhTtAd pic.twitter.com/3LPABS9sje
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) March 2, 2017
Yeah, you read that right. They met Russian officials to help facilitate the Iran nuclear agreement — a deal that released billions of dollars to the world’s biggest state sponsor of terrorism, and which gave the rest of the world nothing in return.
All at once then-Sen. Jeff Sessions’ meetings on committee business sound like small potatoes.
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