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Republicans Rush To Defend Huma Abedin From Michele Bachmann

Posted: July 19, 2012

Michele Bachmann claims that Huma Abedin has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood

After former presidential wannabe Michele Bachmann claimed that Huma Abedin, a top aide within the U.S. government, has ties to the radical Muslim Brotherhood, Republicans all over the country have spoken out condemning Bachmann’s attacks and defending Abedin’s reputation.

Weird, right?

Huma Abedin, a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (also wife of disgraced pol Anthony Weiner), was singled out in a report that Bachmann, along with four other conservative lawmakers, submitted to five federal agencies warning that the Muslim Brotherhood could be attempting an infiltration of the U.S. government. Senator John McCain was the first Republican to step out in defense of Abedin, calling the report an ” unwarranted and unfounded attack on an honorable woman,” on the Senate floor, but he’s far from being the last Righty to condemn Bachmann’s tasteless attack.

House Speaker John Boehner has also rushed to the defense of Abedin, warning lawmakers against making serious reputation-tarnishing allegations without hard evidence to back them up, reports the Huffington Post. “From everything that I do know of [Abedin], she has a sterling character and I think accusations like this being thrown around are pretty dangerous,” he said. Bachmann’s former campaign chief harshly condemned the former presidential contender in an op-ed contributed to Fox News.

Florida Repub. Marco Rubio also condemned Bachmann’s attacks, albeit in a much more tactful way, telling NPR that, “I can tell you that I don’t share the feelings that are in that letter,” he continued, “And in fact, I’m very very careful and cautious about ever making accusations like that about anyone.”

We’ve even got Republicans taking to Twitter to defend Abedin!

For her own part, Bachmann maintains that this is all just a great big misunderstanding and that her letters are being taken out of context. She released a statement Wednesday, saying:

“I encourage everyone, including media outlets, to read them in their entirety,” continuing, “The intention of the letters was to outline the serious national security concerns I had and ask for answers to questions regarding the Muslim Brotherhood and other radical group’s access to top Obama administration officials.”

Whether or not that’s true, who knows. You can let us know what you think in the comments.

Still, it’s always interesting when one party overwhelmingly steps out in defense of someone across the aisle.



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6 Archived Responses to “ Republicans Rush To Defend Huma Abedin From Michele Bachmann ”

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  2. Noah Ackerman
    Jul 21, 2012

    The Huma Abedin matter is really starting to bother me. Since when do reps from both parties fall over themselves to rush to Huma's defense. Are they all on the take from that group (The Muslim Brotherhood) representing the religion of peace with gobs of money to funnel to politicians that are ethically challenged? Michele in her capacity as a US congresswoman has a perfect right to begin to do her job (she should have started in this line of enquiry much earlier in my opinion) to protect the United States. Don't worry about Huma because she has got Hillary to clean up any messes she gets into and we all know based upon Bill that Hillary can tackle the biggest of hopeless causes. Now if Huma has actually done anything to betray this country then she should begin to worry. I must admit her family ties to the Muslim brotherhood make me feel very uncomfortable. Just the utterance of the Brotherhood makes me feel uncomfortable because I am very family with their totalitarian goals and desire to attack the USA from within. There is something very untoward or worse going on in our government when both sides of the isle literally rush to Huma's rescue with such lofty defenses as I have not met her but she has a stellar record of service or she (Huma) is such a nice person who is very dedicated. There have been spies in our govt in the past that surely appeared dedicated also. Boehner and McCain are truly a-holes and alarmingly seem to not want to look into this situation at all which worries me greatly as they do not seem to want to know if the proper security measures regarding Huma's position and others have been scrupulously observed. I find no fault in Michele as she has only used Huma as an example of the type of situation that has prompted further investigation to make sure all govt officials have been put through rigorous security checks. Are you starting to grow uneasy folks?

  3. Mari Lee
    Jul 21, 2012

    Noah Ackerman wrote: "Just the utterance of the Brotherhood makes me feel uncomfortable because I am very family with their totalitarian goals and desire to attack the USA from within."

    So…you have family in the Brotherhood? So, you share their desire to attack the USA from within?

    Yes, I am beginning to "grow uneasy" knowing there are tinfoil-hat, psycho, Muslim Brotherhood people like you in the USA. Why don't you move to Iran? I think you would feel much more comfortable there. And take "Bat-sh*t-crazy" Bachmann there with you too.

  4. David Huddle
    Jul 22, 2012

    He obviously meant to type 'familiar'.

  5. Noah Ackerman
    Jul 28, 2012

    David, how right you are. Can't imagine how I made that typo.

  6. Mari Lee
    Jul 31, 2012

    Oh come on….it's obvious that English is his second language and he is "very family" with"the Brotherhood." Noah isn't an American name….it's totally a "Brotherhood" code name for something Muslem-y….because, you know…he and the brotherhood….they're like family.