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President Trump Dismisses FBI Director Comey

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Re: President Trump Dismisses FBI Director Comey

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Post by maxerickson »

res0nat0r wrote: post #215
tannhauser23 wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be clear, Sessions said he concurred in the recommendation of his deputy Rothstein, who is a life-long prosecutor. Plus, virtually every former Attorney General agreed that Comey made a terrible mistake in announcing the results of the Clinton investigation.

Firing him around January would have had some creedence, not now months later after praising him for months and Trump finding out that Comey has been investigating him and his campaign for almost a year now.

Rod Rosenstein became Deputy Attorney General on April 26th.

Having him write the memo recommending the action isn't really all that strange and goes quite a ways towards explaining the timing.

People would have complained that it was about the investigation anyway in January.

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Post by anigbrowl »

georgemcbay wrote: post #209
anigbrowl wrote: post #178

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Just be an adult, dude. This isn't the NY Post website.

I'm a left-leaning liberal registered Democrat so I'm not sure in what way someone would consider Weiner to be my "political opponent", but the guy is absolutely a sleazeball. Being a sleazeball transcends politics and party lines and there are many Democrat and Republican sleazeballs.

Be that way then

Re: President Trump Dismisses FBI Director Comey

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Post by skygazer »

defined wrote: post #196
BreakingLimbs wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every single person reading this knows that the Trump / Russia story is a witch hunt and total fabrication of which there has been found zero evidence for. This is CNN's Birther cause.

> Every single person reading this knows that ... I am reading this and I disagree, therefore your statement is false. Gen. Flynn was fired - by Trump - for not disclosing his discussions with Russians. So it's not a total fabrication.

I also think your (now flagged) parent comment is mistaken, in that, I, personally, don't know it's a witch hunt and total fabrication. Is it possible that there's no there there? Well, yes. But, is it certain? Of course not. Is it even unlikely? I'd give it 50/50 odds.

Can I imagine that if approached via some tangential proxy for Russia or Wikileaks, that Trump, or someone in his campaign might have agreed that hacking Clinton, or releasing her campaign's emails was a good idea -- given my impression of his disregard for norms and desire for mischief, and a win at all costs, I can totally see him saying go for it, without considering the consequences. He was definitely knowingly underhanded throughout.

So, I don't doubt if he'd had the opportunity that he would take it, thinking he's immune to all consequences. But, then I'd have to wonder if the Russians would really approach him. That's where my doubt comes in. But, given his shocking and irrational fawning over Russia, the financial and other ties several of his campaign aids to Russia, maybe. That he publically asked for hacks Clinton's emails didn't help optics.

Maybe all his evasions and bizarre behaviors are to compensate for his insecurities about his net-worth, and not winning a popular majority, and his macho man-crush on dictators, and his want to be seen as strong as they.

But his historic lack of transparency is what's feeding the "conspiracy" more than anything else. He could probably put all this to bed instantly, but not while protecting his fragile ego.

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Post by mejari »

losvedir wrote: post #195
mwfunk wrote: post #131

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Your argument would be a lot more plausible had Trump not done absolutely everything in his power to look guilty as hell on a daily basis. This whole thing could've been shut down months ago with the barest modicum of transparency, integrity, leadership, and honesty from the administration. Trump could have cleared this up in an instant if he had made even a token effort to behave like a responsible, competent, sane…

> This whole thing could've been shut down months ago with the barest modicum of transparency, integrity, leadership, and honesty from the administration. That seems naive to me. This whole Russia smoke/fire thing is the left's version of the Benghazi scandal, IMO. Do you think Democrats are above a partisan stoking of fires to try to shut down their opponents, or is that just something Republicans do?

Whether or not they're above it, there isn't any evidence that they've done it.

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Post by neuronexmachina »

jayess wrote: post #106
TheBiv wrote: post #4

"Trump just fired the man leading a counterintelligence investigation into his campaign, on the same day that the Senate Intelligence commitee requested financial documents relating to Trump's business dealings from the treasury department that handles money laundering." -Comment from reddit that sums up how strange this is.

James Clapper, the former Director of National Intelligence, told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee on Monday that he still has not seen any evidence of any kind of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian foreign nationals. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-N.C., asked if Clapper's prior statement was correct, when he said on NBC that there was "no evidence' of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian officials.…

Clapper and Yates also testified yesterday that they weren't privy to the results of the FBI's ongoing counterintelligence investigation, which is where evidence of collusion would come from.

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Post by couchand »

rwnspace wrote: post #187

381 points, 171 comments, 1 hour ago; as of writing. Why is this on the second page of HN, and not pole position? I assume/hope that there is some mechanism that stops new content from dominating other content too rapidly.

...and now page three?? Those flags really need to be discounted, this is simply ridiculous.

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Post by neuronexmachina »

sacheendra wrote: post #128
jayess wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

James Clapper, the former Director of National Intelligence, told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee on Monday that he still has not seen any evidence of any kind of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian foreign nationals. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-N.C., asked if Clapper's prior statement was correct, when he said on NBC that there was "no evidence' of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian officials.…

Why does he use language like "We did not include any evidence in our report"? Does this imply that there was evidence and he did not include it?

It's more-or-less a Glomar response, crafted to neither confirm or deny that evidence exists. This is frankly the right thing to say when there's an ongoing investigation and the results aren't made available to the speaker.

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Post by LyndsySimon »

Sargos wrote: post #199
briandear wrote: post #54

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So the right wing wants to reduce encryption? And the left doesn't? Republican Senator Rand Paul has been at the forefront of fighting for privacy protections. Chuck Schumer sure hasn't.

Rand Paul is not what many would be referring to when they say right wing. Rand and Ron Paul are both libertarians that are pro-individual-liberty and clash with the rest of the GOP routinely. They are anomalies.

> Rand and Ron Paul are both libertarians that are pro-individual-liberty and clash with the rest of the GOP routinely.

I strongly believe the average libertarian would disagree with this statement. Rand has made it clear that he is a Republican first.

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