Discussion: Top Senate Judiciary Dem: Trump Told Me He Was Firing Comey At 5:30

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Senator Feinstein has a spine of steel. Just like Secretary Clinton.

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Her statement was an iteration of what trumpp said to her, not her opinion and not an indication of how she felt. The phone call she received is not being reported anywhere else… This statement should not lead to a condemnation of her.

@katscherger @nemo @sniffit

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There is a difference between "S-t-e-a-l and “S-t-e-e-l”

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My Indivisible meeting is going to be interesting tonight…

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The second sentence in Senator Feinstein’s statement is her position. And it’s about as weaksauce as it gets.

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I read the first sentence as her summary of when Trump called her and what he said. I read the second sentence as her comments on what she is looking for in a replacement and what she anticipates out of the judiciary committee during the hearings. Not sure that it matters in any real sense as this is all immediate reaction and future process and says nothing about her views on the actual firing itself.

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Schumer is stepping up:

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Don’t forget they stole the POTUS election in 2000! Never Forget!

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The sentence that begins "The next FBI director must be strong. . . " It’s the kind of thing any senator would say in the interest of being discreet and diplomatic. It’s boilerplate in other words.

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This firing is the beginning of the end for the autocrat and it will unfold slowly, but we’ll be witnesses to history a la the Nixon impeachment process.

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Exactly. That’s why I don’t care for her statement, because the situation demands aggression, not acquiescence.

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I see no acquiescence. When you’re dealing with a mad man, and trumpp is one, it’s important not to throw gasoline on the fire that he is.

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Where is this spine? Cummings has just taken the lead by declaring the democracy in peril. When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

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One can hope for this, but it will progress at a glacial pace (as did the Watergate investigation). In any case, it doesn’t have quite the same optics. “Trump terminates Comey” just doesn’t have the same punch as

NIXON SACKS COX

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Clever headline from someone with a way with words but not really wide spread as a headline.

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Ageism is what you’re all about today.

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Yes, newspapers were incredibly PC back then. It was bumper stickers where one saw
IMPEACH THE COX SACKER

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Like martial law.

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The G7 will be telling at the end of this month.

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Agree with the emergency. But I think her cool is the carefully suppressed glee of a patriotic expert politician who has just seen a mortal threat to democracy serve up his own testicles on a plate.

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