I’d honestly expected to see more of this - politically speaking, this is the dumbest fucking thing I’ve ever heard. Nobody is ever going to let this go now. Again, I’ve never seen this type of political stupidity, at this level, in US politics before. At least Nixon wasn’t a total idiot. Boggles the brain.
Let’s hope he actually follows through. I wouldn’t bet cash on it.
The second paragraph of this letter is bizarre.
The entire administration is bizarre, but point taken.
fuck you, amash. though it’s nice to see you got some time off from taking health care away from people to consider other things.
asshole.
Stun me, and prove me a liar when I say until you fuckers do, you are mouthing empty words to get past this shitstorm.
Most of these Freedumb Caucus types are true believers in their ideology (which is stupid by the way). I honestly don’t think they have that much love for Trump. That’s more the cynical true plutocrat faction.
Hmm…
A couple days ago I wrote that House leadership forced Amash to vote for AHCA out of spite, and that it would make for an entertaining slap fight in the coming months.
Even I didn’t see this shit coming.
Well until he actually does something on this, I don’t think we should be giving him any quarter.
Oh, no doubt. His constituents will need to hold his feet to the fire.
That would be the paragraph that begins with this:
While I greatly appreciate your informing me, on three separate occasions, that the FBI proved beyond any doubt that my inauguration crowd was ten times larger than Obama’s, …
Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI), a member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and of the far-right House Freedom Caucus, announced Tuesday that he and his staff are considering a bill that would establish an independent commission to take up the investigation into the Trump campaign’s contact with the Russian government
If he does that, then I’ll consider him a patriot. But I’m not holding my breath.
Amash: “…The second paragraph of this letter is bizarre.”
At first glance, yes. But not bizarre at all, when you consider the context. Trump is asserting that Comey told him, in three separate conversations, that he was not a target. And IF those conversations actually took place, perhaps that was true at the time. Then Trump finds out that the investigation is closing in on his inner circle, and/or himself – perhaps he got wind of the grand jury subpoenas (that CNN just reported on), or some other indication that the net was closing around him, or perhaps in a more recent conversation, he hears it from Comey himself. Either way, infuriated at Comey having “betrayed” him, despite (what he had taken as) assurances that he was in the clear, he abruptly fires Comey.
In that context, the line about Comey supposedly telling him he wasn’t a target is both a coded rebuke to Comey (make no mistake about it, here’s why you got canned) and also a warning to others in the FBI that if they’d like to keep their jobs, they’d better not cross that line. Underlings who can be thrown under the bus, that’s one thing. But get too close to the throne, and you’d better watch your back.
As a bonus, Trump attempts to establish that he isn’t a target as of now. So if Comey goes to Congress and says that Trump (and/or others in his inner circle) did become targets as more information was uncovered, Trump and Spicer will loudly claim that these are just the bitter claims of a “disgruntled ex-employee.” Look for that in the coming weeks, I think we’re very likely to see precisely that narrative advanced, particularly if Comey’s testimony in Congress is damaging, and especially if that damage reaches Trump and/or his inner circle.
Well, at least we can all be relieved that Foreign Minister Lavrov will be meeting with President Trump tomorrow to provide him guidance and recommendations of who Trump should appoint as the new FBI director.