So I guess everyone still has their jobs.
Including, sadly, Trump.
Well, the week is still young …
Okay, so when will someone with any credibility whatsoever weigh in?
Whoopdy-doo what SHS says. She lies out of so many sides of her mouth that I think her mouth must be four-dimensional.
This IS worse than Watergate, but just not in the way Trump thinks it is.
Our system of government is failing.
The betting line on whether this is going to end well for anyone on this is closed. The only one remaining is the over/under on number of weeks until the **** hits the fan, and this makes me think that number is falling rapidly even despite the DAG’s best efforts
What to make of this?
Based on the meeting with the President, the Department of Justice has asked the Inspector General to expand its current investigation to include any irregularities with the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s or the Department of Justice’s tactics concerning the Trump Campaign. It was also agreed that White House Chief of Staff Kelly will immediately set up a meeting with the FBI, DOJ, and DNI together with Congressional Leaders to review highly classified and other information they have requested.
My take: There is no new investigation. It gets folded into the OIG investigation which has already validated Comey’s actions with respect to the Russia inquiry. That there will be so many people getting access to the highly classified info means Trump/Nunes can’t cherry pick without getting outed or checked. If Democrats are involved as part of the Congressional Leadership (e.g., Feinstein/Warner) that would also be good. Nunes would be at risk if he leaked info (which he will).
While all of this is highly irregular and inappropriate, my sense is that Trump blinked here by not demanding a brand new investigation to essentially e-ghazi the entire FBI. This should buy the time the Democrats and Mueller need. For the Dems, rolling out the anti-corruption/pro-accountability angle may have tempered Trump here. They should run hard on this issue because it will keep Trump in his box between now and election day while also scooping up every corrupt GOP office holder and provide a focal point for people to vent their frustration at the corruption from the cabinet members at EPA, HUD, Education etc. For Mueller, Rosenstein bought time for him to keep plugging away. Some key pieces information that were relevant to starting the investigation was already revealed by Nunes (e.g., Papadopoulos). Other info will be much more incriminating against Trump, and so some GOPers not named Nunes will want to exercise restraint. I notice when I engaged with the Trump Bots that they got defensive when I pushed the Papado angle and the independent basis for the FBI investigation. They’re hung up on the dossier but the force behind their arguments is weak.
Just lending this bullshit the imprimatur of the USG. Sickening. In the meantime the conspiracy continues to unravel.
"White House Chief of Staff Kelly will immediately set up a meeting with the FBI, DOJ, and DNI together with Congressional Leaders to review highly classified and other information they have requested.”
So Ryan’s gonna let Nunes politicize “sources and methods” – and patriots who risk their lives are gonna die.
The next traitor who claims the GOP is “The Party of Law and Order” can use Trump Tower as a suppository.
I think the entire WH aside from dotard recognized that this was a terribly foolish demand for Trump to make, and that even aside from the gross impropriety of it all, it wouldn’t do any good. And so everything was written and interpreted in such a way that the letter of the tweet could be followed, but not the spirit.
I’d rather not follow either, but I think we’re in better, safer hands with Wray and Rosenstein staying in their jobs and not getting massacred.
Well Ryan is waiting on his retirement papers and you know how “touch n go” that can get now,.
“Based on the meeting with the President, the Department of Justice has asked the Inspector General to expand its current investigation to include any irregularities with the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s or the Department of Justice’s tactics concerning the Trump Campaign."
So “45” is now a Time Lord.
I’m not a violent person and I know how to act in public, but I’m beginning to fantasize about knocking a red hat off of some POS tRump Thumper and beating them to a pulp, while screaming the REST of the Constitution into their face.
/spit/
Has failed.
So, with respect to his demands, Trump got nothing more than what Rosenstein had already announced yesterday, which is far from ideal but seems to be mostly a sop to Dear Leader and a stalling tactic to give Mueller time to complete his investigation.
On the meeting with Nunes et al, that is far more concerning, if the White House characterization is true. And we all know there’s a strong likelihood it is not.
The Constitution of the United States no longer works. It has failed. It is now a suicide pact.
And if the worst happens,
history will record Ryan and McConnell as treasonous cowards who did nothing to stop it.
The TARDIS would spit him out into the nearest black hole. Or Dalek base.
“Paranoia runs deep. Into your lives it will creep”
CSNY.
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So, with respect to his demands, Trump got nothing more than what Rosenstein had already announced yesterday,
[/quote]Well, after all, he is a great negotiator … and demander.
But in the end, he’s just a big bullshitter.
Translation - Trump really wants to know what Mueller knows. He will get it if/when he is indicted but not before.