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NYT: F.B.I. Opened Inquiry Into Whether Trump Was Secretly Working on Behalf of Russia After Firing Comey
- Thread starter Sexy Fish
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It's weird to think that Comey would be a beloved Republican hero if he'd dropped the Trump investigation and did what Trump wanted.
Actually the best fictional comparison I've heard for her. Cartman for Trump.
I'd have to say that, frankly, it's big. Big news; tremendously big news. And when I say - and I'm saying it very strongly - when I say that it's bigly news, I mean that it may be the biggest news about your favorite president that has come out, possibly ever, OK??
The House votes to impeach, the Senate tries the case. It's not up to McConnell whether impeachment is on the table. If the House forces it, the Senate has to take it up.
Whether there's 18 Republicans in Senate willing to convict is another matter.
Most sane people kind of thought this already 2 years ago. Not sure this article really changes anything other than to say that obviously intelligence agencies aren't stupid.
That's what I meant. I don't see him bringing it to a vote.
Literally trying to blend in with the drapes. Clip of our time.
Trump acts like such a mobster boss.
Not sure if this has been posted, but Lawfare has a good writeup.
https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-if-obstruction-was-collusion-new-yorks-timess-latest-bombshell
https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-if-obstruction-was-collusion-new-yorks-timess-latest-bombshell
It changes things because:
- the suspicion was on a sitting President, not a candidate
- The nation's top law enforcement agency not only found the Comey firing suspicious, they went so far as to open AND conduct a counterintelligence investigation to determine if the sitting President was working for another country, specifically Russia
- We had no window into how Trump-appointed heads of agencies were operating these investigations
- Trump fired five of the top six FBI officials but couldn't kill the investigation into his campaign, nor this one
- We all know we have only been exposed to the tip of the iceberg in terms of information related to these investigations. This report tonight not only confirms that there is much more to discover, but that info is likely very heavy info.
Acts like a tough guy mob boss...is actually a coward and an imbecile.
Yeah. The American Political system is definitely a slow moving process in a world that is all about instant access/consumption/gratification/etc. Why it was so easily exploited, especially through the application of the internet.
The fact he could remain in power in spite of these suspicions exposes a terrifying blind spot in the entire political system of the United States. There needs to be an emergency procedure to remove such a potential threat of high treason, patch it in as soon as fucking possible if American democracy isn't beyond saving at this point.
And this has been in plan for decades. Perfectly planned. Quite possibly the greatest counter intelligence operation in human history.
Trumps first speech after being inaugurated was at the CIA HQ. From Russia With Love.
I think Trump would have been indicted by now if the asanine DOJ rules weren't in place saying a sitting president can't be indicted. Those rules need to change, because we can't let this bullshit happen again.
It has never happened before in American history.
That tells you everything.
Nah. Mob Bosses actually got to their spots by whacking their competition, being ruthless criminals, murderers etc. Trump is a coward. He wants to pretend he's Tony Soprano. He's anything but.
That article was a heck of a read. I'm surprised more never thought of it like this. The next few months are going to be insane.
Nah. This is like the lead pack in the Tour De France tangling wheels just as Lance Armstrong starts a steroid powered push. Like, he didn't need the whole assist to win. Russia couldn't have created a clusterfuck of this magnitude. They sure did take advantage of it though.
Well with Cohen going before congress in February this will be getting more interesting. Trump probably wants to keep the shutdown thing going to shift focus.
Every 'big' story over the past two years only seems to reinforce what everyone was already thinking in the hours and days after Buzzfeed published the Steele dossier right before inauguration. It's excruciating waiting for the next plot point.
It was always very strange to me how changing the entire GOP platform in such a short and swift nauture and amount of time to be more favorable to Russia was not a big story.
In my eyes that is one of the most damning piece of 'evidence' that Trump is for sure working with/for Russia and has the support and complicity of the entire GOP party. Extremely damning and yet because we have the attention span of squirrels it was covered for two days tops.
To bad for Trump and the GOP that Mueller and Co. don't have the attention span of small rodents. It's going to be so delicious when the whole apparatus comes tumbling down including the terriorist organization of the NRA.
In my eyes that is one of the most damning piece of 'evidence' that Trump is for sure working with/for Russia and has the support and complicity of the entire GOP party. Extremely damning and yet because we have the attention span of squirrels it was covered for two days tops.
To bad for Trump and the GOP that Mueller and Co. don't have the attention span of small rodents. It's going to be so delicious when the whole apparatus comes tumbling down including the terriorist organization of the NRA.
Which is why to me, taking down more members of the GOP is more important than Trump. The sad part is, if we lose Trump, we get Pence. Pence knows what he's doing. If we can cripple the GOP, that would do more damage.
There was Mattis's Feb 28th last day in the event trump didn't understand the resignation letter was blasting him. There was something else happening in March, but man I'm falling asleep and it escapes me. Just my speculation.
Edit: found it. Mattis not wanting to be there in March and Rosenstein suggesting early March seemed too big for people in the know to be a coincidence.
https://mobile.twitter.com/kylegrif...iframe/2/twitter.min.html#1083098621606715392
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Yup, the GOP was always diligent on opposing Russia. McCain was until the end and Romney is too. Weren't there a bunch of GOP senators going to Russiaate last year? I really think it's way more broad than Trump, hes just the crown jewel.
I'm with you here. I think it's very important to weed out the entire party and not just Trump. Pence doesn't really matter very much anymore. We are too far along in this term for him taking over and doing any real lasting damage. Especially now that Dems have the house. Pence would be the same lame duck Donald is just quieter.
This. So much this.
I can't believe he just got away with it.
Has he even signed the new embargos? Or are they still on his desk?
As long as it pisses off Liberals, conservatives are okay with anything.
