The Trump Presidency (Act V - The One Where Everybody Dies)

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Kelly furious that somebody leaked the briefing paper that Trumpy either ignored or did not read to the WAPO.
Had to be somebody fairly high up.

We might have Deep Throat 2, folks...
 
Captain_Swoop said:
A Trump golf course near New York City is seeking permission to hire 14 foreign guest workers, saying it can’t find qualified Americans for the jobs

https://www.buzzfeed.com/jessicagarrison/trump-golf-course-near-nyc-seeks-more-foreign-workers

Bring those jobs back.
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"Buy American, hire American. MAGA."

Yeah, right Donald.
He does the same at Mar-a-Lago, I can't be surprised if it's the norm at his other courses as well.

Now I'm wondering what's the practice come harvest time at the Trump Winery? :D
 
dudalb said:
Kelly furious that somebody leaked the briefing paper that Trumpy either ignored or did not read to the WAPO.
Had to be somebody fairly high up.

We might have Deep Throat 2, folks...
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A little overblown in calling it Deep Throat 2 at this point. Trump ignored his advisors, power this report. Not yet the same as someone spoiling the beans about a crime yet.
 
Segnosaur said:
Seriously? You're wasting people's time trying to define "trump's team" and "kremlin"?

Pretty blatant diversionary tactic there.

Trump's team: those in an authority position during either Trump's campaign, or in the transition period, including (but not limited to): Trump himself, Trump Jr., Kushner, Manafort, Flynn, Gates, Papadopoulos, Stone.

The Kremlin: Those working for and associated with the current Russian leadership, currently under the command of Putin, including Putin himself.
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Well that is certainly probable.

You have a really expansive definition of Kremlin there to include anyone associated with current. Russian leadership. This is exactly why I asked, so people don't think I'm answering for a more narrow definition.

ETA: in some cases, associates of the current Russian leadership include people who have been US citizens for decades.
 
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Andrew McCabe authorized criminal probe of Sessions, sources say.

Nearly a year before Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired senior FBI official Andrew McCabe for what Sessions called a "lack of candor," McCabe oversaw a federal criminal investigation into whether Sessions lacked candor when testifying before Congress about contacts with Russian operatives, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.

Democratic lawmakers have repeatedly accused Sessions of misleading them in congressional testimony and called on federal authorities to investigate, but McCabe's previously-unreported decision to actually put the attorney general in the crosshairs of an FBI probe was an exceptional move.

One source told ABC News that Sessions was not aware of the investigation when he decided to fire McCabe last Friday less than 48 hours before McCabe, a former FBI deputy director, was due to retire from government and obtain a full pension, but an attorney representing Sessions declined to confirm that.

Last year, several top Republican and Democratic lawmakers were informed of the probe during a closed-door briefing with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and McCabe, ABC News was told.
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ETA: It's a good thing Sessions waited for the IG and OPR reports to be published and then recused himself to avoid any appearance of retaliation.
 
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Stacko said:
Andrew McCabe authorized criminal probe of Sessions, sources say.

ETA: It's a good thing Sessions waited for the IG and OPR reports to be published and then recused himself to avoid any appearance of retaliation.
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From the link:
According to the sources, McCabe authorized the criminal inquiry after a top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, and then-Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., wrote a letter in March 2017 to the FBI urging agents to investigate "all contacts" Sessions may have had with Russians, and "whether any laws were broken in the course of those contacts or in any subsequent discussion of whether they occurred."
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I'm not sure how secret that was. I seem to recall something....

It's also logical. Sessions was on the Trump team, he met with the Russian ambassador more than once and didn't put it on his security clearance.

... That's what I recall, the Senators, in particular Franken were calling publicly for an investigation into whether Sessions lied under oath in his confirmation hearing.


This is not particularly new news.
 
Squeegee Beckenheim said:
I think there was probable cause - by the time Mueller was appointed there had been numerous reports from numerous intelligence agencies from many different countries that there had been coordination between the Trump team and the Kremlin...
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Lest we forget, the information that has been made public -- especially in a hugely sensitive case like this one (with enormous national security issues) -- that information is not ALL the information. There is a lot that remains classified.
Robert Hannigan, then the head of the U.K.’s intelligence service the G.C.H.Q., had recently [August 2016] flown to Washington and briefed the C.I.A.’s director, John Brennan, on a stream of illicit communications between Trump’s team and Moscow that had been intercepted. (The content of these intercepts has not become public.) Link
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Among other things, having seen the intercepted stream of communications may explain why Brennan used such scathing language recently in replying publicly to comments made by The Dunce:
"When the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes known, you will take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history." Link
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dudalb said:
Kelly furious that somebody leaked the briefing paper that Trumpy either ignored or did not read to the WAPO.
Had to be somebody fairly high up.

We might have Deep Throat 2, folks...
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Oh yeah, Kelly. Wasn't he that guy who used to be a Marine but is now Trump's little prison-date bitch?
 
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