Personally, I thought O'Bummer should have fired Comey before the election for the way he mishandled the Clinton investigation....
I can't wait to see what kind of bootlicking piece of shit Trump replaces him with.
Yeah this was handled so carefully it comes out on TV before Comey is told. At least they could have waited until he returned from his trip and tell him in person.
Hey Boomer why don't you get off your knees now. We can see you.
At this point I won't bat an eyelash if he gives Jared Kushner the position.So who is Trump going to nominate in his place.
I'm betting on Rudy Giuliani
Also do not forget that Tяump had nothing but praise to offer when he perceived Comey was helping him.And you think the people behind this firing were just being professional? No, they were being underhanded. Otherwise Trump would have announced it on Twitter before he fired him. Procedurally this Administration gives no f****. I don't find it nearly as refreshing as some of Trumps followers might. Why is it so important to you to find a positive in this ridiculous move? The least that can be said is that it's suspect.
TO START, THE FACTS
IN 2013, the FBI and other agencies discovered the presence of three Russian spies working to recruit Carter Page, a former Gazprom employee and advisor. While the success of that effort is unclear, Page has affirmed he is “US Person 1.”
IN AUGUST 2015, surrounded by a cloud of rancor, Roger Stone left the trump campaign after only a couple of months. Stone, later admitting contact with the primary hacker in the election scandal, had been a personal friend of trump’s going back three decades. Stone is also a lobbying partner of Paul Manafort, marking an early connection to Manafort, long before his official employment by the campaign.
IN DECEMBER 2015, Page travelled to Russia, and again in 2016, slamming US foreign policy, sanctions, and praising Russia’s energy potential. During the winter, Britain’s GHCQ and other foreign agencies in Australia, Estonia, Poland and Germany began intercepting communications that involved trump’s name and the coming election. They forwarded this information to the US authorities. Page’s speech in July 2016 was noteworthy because the FBI already had him on their radar from 2013 and this new intel, and he was the subject of a FISA warrant based on credible suspicions and intercepts, combined with his history. Incidentally, Page also seemed to know the name of Rex Tillerson as an option for Secretary of State, many months before America did, and presumably trump himself. Tillerson had just entered retirement after a long, successful career at Exxon. He had spent years advocating for the repeal of sanctions on Russia which killed a $500 billion oil field they’d been working on with Russian oil company, Rosneft, and previously served as board director for a Russian/Exxon oil company based in the Bahamas. Page praised Tillerson’s unique status of “Official Order of Friendship,” the highest Russian honor a foreign citizen can receive from the president.
IN MARCH 2016, Moscow instructed state backed media outlets, including former Michael Flynn employer RT, to publish more trump-friendly stories. March 29, Paul Manafort officially joined trump campaign.
IN JUNE 2016, a Russian think tank, the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, staffed by intelligence officials appointed by President Vladimir Putin issued a report concluding that a trump victory was in their county’s best interest. The report outlined a detailed social media campaign that would employ the use of websites and bots to sway voter impressions.
IN JULY 2016, the GOP convention, organized in large part by Paul Manafort, made several changes to the party platform, including a major alteration in Ukraine policy. No one has claimed credit for these changes. At this same convention, several trump officials met with Russia’s top diplomat, Sergey Kislyak, presumably in a social setting. However, no one disclosed these meetings, despite Russian intervention being a major story at the time. This same month, trump looked to the cameras at a press conference and invited the Russian government to hack more emails and find Hillary’s “missing 33,000 emails.”
IN SEPTEMBER 2016, then-Sen Sessions met again with Kislyak, and discussed “several issues,” which included Ukraine policy and sanctions. Note that Sessions, although a Senator, had no other interests in Russia, and was not chairman of the committee he claimed to be communicating for. Nothing else was determined. This same month, ABC reported that Russian hackers were targeting digitized voter registration systems. In fact, the FBI issued a warning to all state election offices that hackers were trying to break through, and had succeeded in some places. These intrusions went into voter information, not actual voting equipment.
In October 2016, a second document by the Russian intel think tank advocated a switch to amplifying the rumor of voter fraud, when it was assumed Clinton was going to win. The timing of Trumps insistence on this is probably coincidental, but still odd.
In December 2016, post-election, trumps son in law, Jared Kushner, and future NSA chief Michael Flynn met with several Russian officials, and had discussions regarding sanctions, Ukraine policy and other geopolitical issues. These meetings happened at trump tower. Neither man disclosed these meetings, although if they were innocuous, you wonder why. Kushner also met with the head of Vnesheconombank, a Russian bank, led by a former Russian security officer, which had been financing the Rosneft/Exxon deal years earlier, and is currently under US sanctions. These events were observed by US intel doing work on foreign agents.
IN JANUARY 2017, trump announced his cabinet picks, including – Shockingly? – Tillerson for Sec of State and Wilber Ross for Commerce Sec. Ross was a business partner of the principal owner of Russia’s largest oil company, Rosneft. He was also vice chairman of Bank of Cyprus, the bank long suspected of helping to launder billions in Russian oligarch money. Both of these cabinet secretaries have personal, financial interest in sanctions being lifted. Tillerson alone has over $200 million in Exxon stock. This same month, Erik Prince, brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, met with a Russian envoy, facilitated by the Prince of the United Arab Emirates. The intent was to establish a back channel of communication between the world leaders. It was also at this time the DOJ informed the trump team that Flynn had been picked up in December on intercepts of foreign calls, discussing sanctions. Flynn adamantly denied this. He continued to operate as the National Security Advisor, despite the trump team knowing of his dishonesty. Flynn resigned weeks later, but only after an incessant news cycle begun by a Washington Post story revealing the dishonesty.
IN FEBRUARY, Attorney General Sessions recused himself from any investigations after it was revealed that he met twice, once publicly, and privately with Russia’s top diplomat during the election, despite denying contact during his confirmation hearings. He admitted the sloppiness of his answers, and apologized, before recusing himself. He also confirmed they discussed Ukraine “and other issues,” but not the election. The story of Russian propaganda was a major story at the time of their meeting, but Sessions says it never came up.
IN MARCH, House Rep David Nunes, as chairman of the House Intel cmte, was called to the White House late at night to review intel regarding which government agents looked into trump investigations. The next day, he returned to the White House to “reveal” to the president what he had discovered… at the White House. The oddity of the ordeal led to his recusal from the House investigation into trump’s Russia connections. Yes, for those that are counting, that’s one firing/resignation and two high ranking recusals after only a month of the presidency. At the end of the month, testimony at a senate intel cmte hearing reveals that intel agencies observed the Russian campaign to include hacking leaks favorably to trump, dozens of fake news websites, instruction to state media to run trump-friendly stories, and a concerted social media effort both through hyper targeting of anti-Clinton propaganda and thousands of paid bots to roam Twitter and Facebook to support trump and attack Clinton.
IN APRIL, Ukraine media and elected leadership reported confirmation of not only a financial ledger, but also bank transactions previously denied by Paul Manafort for lobbying work he had done on behalf of Russian interests in Ukraine election influence. After initially denying it, he now admits the transactions occurred but dismissed the implication of a connection to the election. Some articles reveal that Manafort waged a lobbying effort for months, including personal visits, phone calls and letters delivered to trump, wanting to be part of the trump campaign.
Donald J. Tяump said:While I greatly appreciate you informing me, on three separate occasions, that I am not under investigation, I nevertheless concur with the judgment of the Department of Justice that you are not able to effectively lead the Bureau.
Also do not forget that Tяump had nothing but praise to offer when he perceived Comey was helping him.
Tяump did not have a winning hand here. Keeping Comey meant having to deal with a perpetual loose end, which, as we observed last year, can cost presidency. Offing him means ratcheting the sensitivity valve several notches up for all the interested parties, and this Russia investigation thing will not go away for the foreseeable future.
P.S. We can add this event to the timeline below. (N.B. long list)
http://www.redstate.com/diary/truefreak/2017/04/20/trussian-timeline-whats-factspeculation/
There's no hypocrisy in wanting the man fired but being incensed in the manner in which it occurred.
The tears are delicious.
Idiots demand Comey's resignation. Idiots claim he isn't doing his job.
And then idiots cry foul when he is actually fired.
The only sad thing is that there are Americans who actually voted for these fools and put them in office. Hopefully this blatant hypocrisy will cost the democrats some more votes.
The tears are delicious.
Idiots demand Comey's resignation. Idiots claim he isn't doing his job.
And then idiots cry foul when he is actually fired.
The only sad thing is that there are Americans who actually voted for these fools and put them in office. Hopefully this blatant hypocrisy will cost the democrats some more votes.
The tears are delicious.
Idiots demand Comey's resignation. Idiots claim he isn't doing his job.
And then idiots cry foul when he is actually fired.
The only sad thing is that there are Americans who actually voted for these fools and put them in office. Hopefully this blatant hypocrisy will cost the democrats some more votes.
The tears are delicious.
Idiots demand Comey's resignation. Idiots claim he isn't doing his job.
And then idiots cry foul when he is actually fired.
The only sad thing is that there are Americans who actually voted for these fools and put them in office. Hopefully this blatant hypocrisy will cost the democrats some more votes.
If Tяump fired Comey in, say, January, I would have had no qualms about it and considered it a job well done. It is absurd to think that Tяump is firing Comey now because of what he (Tяump) had known about him (Comey) all along since last July.
The tears are delicious.
Idiots demand Comey's resignation. Idiots claim he isn't doing his job.
And then idiots cry foul when he is actually fired.
The only sad thing is that there are Americans who actually voted for these fools and put them in office. Hopefully this blatant hypocrisy will cost the democrats some more votes.
The tears are delicious.
Idiots demand Comey's resignation. Idiots claim he isn't doing his job.
And then idiots cry foul when he is actually fired.
The only sad thing is that there are Americans who actually voted for these fools and put them in office. Hopefully this blatant hypocrisy will cost the democrats some more votes.
If Tяump fired Comey in, say, January, I would have had no qualms about it and considered it a job well done.
... But what is astonishing, and frankly concerning, is that his advisers and lawyers let him do this on official documents.
The tears are delicious.
Idiots demand Comey's resignation. Idiots claim he isn't doing his job.
And then idiots cry foul when he is actually fired.
The only sad thing is that there are Americans who actually voted for these fools and put them in office. Hopefully this blatant hypocrisy will cost the democrats some more votes.
Why do you suppose he didn't fire him sooner? If the stated reasons for Comey's dismissal are genuine, those things were firmly established when Trump took office. Doing it this way, at this time makes your man look like a weak imbecile OR a frightened traitor. There is no third option. Which one of these things are you most accepting of or does all of it sit comfortably within your smallness? Either way it takes a special kind crazy to still support the scumbag. Crazy gonna cray-cray I suppose. Must you prove it with such gusto? Your sanity is on the line, aren't you concerned?
The tears are delicious.
Idiots demand Comey's resignation. Idiots claim he isn't doing his job.
And then idiots cry foul when he is actually fired.
The only sad thing is that there are Americans who actually voted for these fools and put them in office. Hopefully this blatant hypocrisy will cost the democrats some more votes.
The tears are delicious.
Idiots demand Comey's resignation. Idiots claim he isn't doing his job.
And then idiots cry foul when he is actually fired.
The only sad thing is that there are Americans who actually voted for these fools and put them in office. Hopefully this blatant hypocrisy will cost the democrats some more votes.
Chiropteran is just doing his job. He has been assigned this hell hole and while there is no wins here he still has to shitpost to appease his boss.Out of curiosity, is this basically the sum total of your thoughts with regard to the news that this topic is about?