BREAKING: NY Times—Trump Working on Behalf of Russia?
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Following President Trump’s firing of James B. Comey as F.B.I. director, the bureau grew increasingly concerned about whether the president’s actions constituted anti-American activity.CreditCreditSarah Silbiger/The New York Times
By Adam Goldman, Michael S. Schmidt and Nicholas Fandos
WASHINGTON — In the days after President Trump fired James B. Comey as F.B.I. director, law enforcement officials became so concerned by the president’s behavior that they began investigating whether he had been working on behalf of Russia against American interests, according to former law enforcement officials and others familiar with the investigation.
- Jan. 11, 2019
The inquiry carried explosive implications. Counterintelligence investigators had to consider whether the president’s own actions constituted a possible threat to national security. Agents also sought to determine whether Mr. Trump was knowingly working for Russia or had unwittingly fallen under Moscow’s influence.
The investigation the F.B.I. opened into Mr. Trump also had a criminal aspect, which has long been publicly known: whether his firing of Mr. Comey constituted obstruction of justice.
Agents and senior F.B.I. officials had grown suspicious of Mr. Trump’s ties to Russia during the 2016 campaign but held off on opening an investigation into him, the people said, in part because they were uncertain how to proceed with an inquiry of such sensitivity and magnitude.
But the president’s activities before and after Mr. Comey’s firing in May 2017, particularly two instances in which Mr. Trump tied the Comey dismissal to the Russia investigation, helped prompt the counterintelligence aspect of the inquiry, the people said.
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1. Steal US Presidential election in cahoots with Putin
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2. Promise (LIE) that Mexico will Pay for 2 thousand miles Border Wall
3. Tax break to billionaires lie about giving military a 10 percent raise
4. Shutdown Government and Increase National Debt by $2 Trillion
5. Get Saudis to glut Global Oil Market
6. Kick “un-American” Harley Davidson to the curb
7. Hire illegals at all Trump Properties for dirt wages
You and your party have the worst case of butthurt in the history of butthurt.
By externalizing their understanding of cause and effect, they've literally become dumber the past 2 years.
Many (most) of them have unlearned basic lessons of life.
Trump is about to give us possibly 3 conservative supreme court justices. That, pardon the pun, trumps anything else in this election cycle.
And he owns Chelsea FC!
Screw that guy.
@NZ Poke
He’s back with more of his patented, “JEWS, JEWS, JEWS”.
Oh yeah, a response to your ridiculous BS in the Ginsburg thread is desired.
You’ve got a post over there you need to recant/withdraw or whatever you do when your unresearched, un-verified nonsense gets blown apart with a bit of facts.
He’s back with more of his patented, “JEWS, JEWS, JEWS”.
Oh yeah, a response to your ridiculous BS in the Ginsburg thread is desired.
You’ve got a post over there you need to recant/withdraw or whatever you do when your unresearched, un-verified nonsense gets blown apart with a bit of facts.
I know this is probably going to shock folks on this board, but it looks like the leak to the NY Times purposely omitted the rest of the story.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/re...p-after-comey-firing-during-house-questioning
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/re...p-after-comey-firing-during-house-questioning
fits the narrative the entirety of washington could not accept the 2016 election had consequences
"FBI senior leadership could not accept Comey was fired for cause and the president had the constitutional authority to terminate Comey."
— U.S. Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas
You understand that Trump admitted he fired Comey Because of the Russia investigation? You think he was actually fired “for cause”?
Do you believe in unicorns and tooth fairies too?
“Russia if you’re listening...I think you will be rewarded mightily...”
COLLUSION COLLUSION COLLUSION!!!
He was a political appointee serving at the pleasure of the president. There doesn't have to be 'for cause'. You know, like when Clinton fired Sessions.
“Just before Bill Clinton was inaugurated as the 42nd President of the United States on January 20, 1993, allegations of ethical improprieties were made against Sessions. A report by outgoing Attorney General William P. Barrpresented to the Justice Department that month by the Office of Professional Responsibility included criticisms that he had used an FBI plane to travel to visit his daughter on several occasions, and had a security system installed in his home at government expense.[4]Janet Reno, the 78th Attorney General of the United States, announced that Sessions had exhibited "serious deficiencies in judgment."[5]
Although Sessions denied that he had acted improperly, he was pressured to resign in early July, with some suggesting that President Clinton was giving Sessions the chance to step down in a dignified manner. Sessions refused, saying that he had done nothing wrong, and insisted on staying in office until his successor was confirmed. As a result, President Clinton dismissed Sessions on July 19, 1993.”
And it was for cause. Just as I said. It wasn’t a political maneuver...Sessions broke ethics rules.
Keep digging tho...you’re truly getting somewhere here lol
Yes I am...He did it because of the Russia investigation. Period.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cn...cs/donald-trump-james-comey-moscow/index.html
I'm pretty sure most people on this board are chuckling at your inadvertent self-own. It is chuckle worthy.
Oh you ended with "Period?" You must be super serious and super right.
You are a full blown potato. Posting a meme about yourself.
Happy to know that my 3 OSU grad kids should have learned all of the basics at 30ish. Me too I guess.
You gonna did your heels in against what amounts to a 5 second google search lol
Talk about lost causes haha
Were you living under a rock in 2016? He had several reasons to fire Comey. Comey was an incompetent idiot. Incompetent idiots tend to do things that get themselves fired. Period.
Except that trump wanted him around so bad, he asked him for “loyalty”.
You all make this really rudimentary lol
