President Trump fires FBI Director James Comey

[Jamesiv1]

It depends on what your definition of is is.

 

[CPUd]

 

[r3volution 3.0]

Rand Paul lately has not been quiet, even Ron Paul is speaking out on key issues:

Rand Paul On Michael Savage - Obama Spying On Rand Paul

Rand Paul: Second senator informs him he was under surveillance as well.

Ron Paul: No evidence of Russian intrusion in US political system (RT 5/11)

I meant that he's been quiet in relation to the Trump fuck-up scandals of the last two days.

Trump is not a Liberterian

but in a fight between Trump vs neocons/media/SWC Hillary-DGP's masters cabal..

...one would eventually wake up and realize one is dreaming about things which could never happen.

 

[CPUd]

Did President Trump Obstruct Justice?

He may have, legal scholars said cautiously. But further investigations would be necessary to know for sure.

MATT FORD 8:18 PM ET

Tuesday’s bombshell report that President Trump asked former FBI Director James Comey to drop the federal investigation into former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn will almost certainly strengthen a growing consensus among legal scholars that the president may have committed obstruction of justice, an impeachable offense.

The New York Times reported Tuesday afternoon that Comey kept memos of conversations he had with Trump, including one of a conversation in which the president allegedly urged the then-director of the FBI to drop the ongoing federal probe into Flynn. Multiple media outlets have reported the investigation is examining Flynn’s conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak as well as the retired general’s foreign sources of income prior to joining the Trump administration.

“[Flynn] is a good guy,” Trump reportedly told Comey in February in the Oval Office after a routine national-security briefing. “I hope you can let this go.” (The White House, for its part, told the Times that description was “not a truthful or accurate portrayal of the conversation between the president and Mr. Comey.”)

Comey’s memos could bolster calls for an obstruction-of-justice investigation into Trump himself, either by the Justice Department or by Congress. “It helps meet the burden that has to be shown that the president engaged in some kind of misconduct,” said Michael Gerhardt, a University of North Carolina law professor who testified during the Clinton impeachment hearings. “At this point, the burden is shifting over to the president to explain how this might've been done in good faith or how this is not misconduct.”

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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/trump-comey-obstruction-justice/526953/

 

[r3volution 3.0]

Wow, I thought this would be just another embarrassment.

...honestly starting to think we're getting into impeachment territory.

Perhaps GOPers would prefer to settle the matter now, rather than in 2020.

FYI, "high crimes and misdemeanors" means exactly what the House says it means; there is no standard.

Pure politics, so, if Trump pisses off enough people...

 

[nikcers]

“[Flynn] is a good guy,” Trump reportedly told Comey in February in the Oval Office after a routine national-security briefing. “I hope you can let this go.”

Wow- so does that mean Comey was fired in retaliation to Flynn being ousted? Rand Paul made an argument before on one of the shows that people shouldn't leak information and ruin careers because they have a different stance on Israel than the president.

 

[AuH20]

 

[AuH20]

 

[AuH20]

 

[AuH20]

 

[CPUd]

https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/864671184763453441

 

[UWDude]

Once you saw someone post that anigif on another forum you troll, and thought it was funny/ good. So now you repost it, thinking it neat-o and cool.

That, is just one of the many, many measurements of how much you really, really suck.

 

[CPUd]

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/17/trump-white-house-on-edge-238482

 

[r3volution 3.0]

Once you saw someone post that anigif on another forum you troll, and thought it was funny/ good. So now you repost it, thinking it neat-o and cool.

That, is just one of the many, many measurements of how much you really, really suck.

That was enlightening. Thanks for posting.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/17/trump-white-house-on-edge-238482

lol, good luck

...it's kind of the whole problem

...the POTUS is a 16 year old girl

 

[enhanced_deficit]

Maybe Comey's departure would heal the community.

If Comey was competent , how come he did not know about this but Trump did?

If he did, why he did not inform Congress/public like he did about Hillary's emails non-prosecution?

Hopefully new leader President Trump picks wil be more vigilant on such matters.

 

[AZJoe]

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/trump-comey-obstruction-justice/526953/

This is a typical disgruntled ex-employee story. If the NYT has the memo, why don't they produce it? If Comey made such a memo, why didn't he reveal it to the Department of Justice or Congress at the time? If he thought there was "obstruction of justice" , Comey is complicit for suppressing it and not reporting it.

Rep. Session is now asking for Comey's memo on Clinton's tarmac meeting with Loretta Lynch:

“If the New York Times has [Comey’s memo] that means we’re going to be able to see it and I would assume that would be fair. I assume that Mr. Comey also kept, if he’s disturbed by the same memos, that he gave to or about when Mrs. Clinton’s husband appeared in the jet with the attorney general ...
“So I assume that memo would be available to us also. And I would assume that we will see a number of disturbing trends that took place at the Department of Justice [during the Obama administration] for whatever he’s claiming and I’ll look forward to seeing all those, ... Mr. Comey that if he kept one on this visit, evidently, he has others now look forward to seeing those.”

 

[nikcers]

Wow- so does that mean Comey was fired in retaliation to Flynn being ousted? Rand Paul made an argument before on one of the shows that people shouldn't leak information and ruin careers because they have a different stance on Israel than the president.

So now supposedly the info leaked compromised Israel's ISIS "secret" agents identity. Putin responded by saying that the allegations are false and that they would provide the transcript of the conversation if necessary- sounded like he was being cheeky?

We need some real leaks to shed some light on all of this because its starting to sound like a fabrication that is intentionally spun to control the narrative. This is one of those situations where they can't control the information coming out but they try to manipulate what people are paying attention to and focusing on to reinforce their narrative.

 

[merkelstan]

The usual pile of MSM excrement.

Oh don't miss the Liberty Report and Scott Horton's interview of Ron Paul at the Libertarian Institute https://www.libertarianinstitute.org/scotthortonshow/

 

[CPUd]

 

[Brian4Liberty]

The real reason for the firing has been uncovered. This is legit, as there are "current and former U. S. officials" as unnamed sources.

After an exhaustive inquiry by The American Spectator’s team of award-winning investigative journalists this magazine can now report that in February of this year former FBI Director James B. Comey was captured on surveillance cameras in the White House blowing his nose on White House curtains. The nose blowing took place in the Oval Office after President Donald J. Trump excused himself for several minutes to take a call from his wife Melania. Mr. Comey was alone. A picture of President Andrew Jackson was clearly visible in the background.

Whether Mr. Comey’s act involved the destruction of government property is at this point in time still unknown, though he has a powerful nose and the curtains are fragile. As for now, the surveillance tapes have been handed over to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who will make a determination as to possible criminality of Mr. Comey’s actions. Destruction of government property is punishable by a much as three years in prison and a fine.

Among The Spectator’s sources were three current and former U. S. officials who cannot be identified because of their prior commitments. Also there has been an additional problem with one of them, the former government official who has a drinking problem.
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more: https://spectator.org/world-exclusive-curtains-for-comey/