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by JediDragon05 » Tue May 09, 2017 11:35 pm

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PostRe: The American Politics Thread - Trump fires FBI Director
by Peter Crisp » Tue May 09, 2017 11:40 pm

Photek wrote:Holy sh^t! How blatant is this? Attorney General who had to recuse himself from FBI investigation into trumps ties with the Russians recommends the Head of the FBI be fired and Trump agrees. Holy gooseberry fool!

You can't be an intelligent person and vote republican right now, it's simply not possible.


Fox news will spin this and Trump supporters will lap it up and claim any negative reporting is fake news.
Trump will just claim the FBI director was being partisan and his supporters will agree.
It's depressing to say but in the US right now facts and truth mean strawberry float all.

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PostRe: The American Politics Thread - Trump fires FBI Director
by Photek » Tue May 09, 2017 11:53 pm

The banana republic of America.

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PostRe: The American Politics Thread - Trump fires FBI Director
by KK » Tue May 09, 2017 11:57 pm

There is actually a case for Comey to be removed though, following his complete mishandling of Hilary (and the new revelation her emails had simply been a technical issue)...which is now awfully convenient for Trump.

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by Irene Demova » Tue May 09, 2017 11:59 pm

I mean if it wasn't serious it'd be hilarious just how blatantly crooked Sessions is.
House of Cards at it's absolute silliest wasn't this bad.

Also anyone with the VAGUEST memory of history would know that this draws Nixon comparisons, it's a ridiculously bad pr move.

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PostRe: The American Politics Thread - Trump fires FBI Director
by Garth » Wed May 10, 2017 1:02 am

Mr. Comey was addressing a group of F.B.I. employees in Los Angeles when a television in the background flashed the news that he had been fired.

In response, Mr. Comey laughed, saying he thought it was a fairly funny prank.

Then his staff started scurrying around in the background and told Mr. Comey that he should step into a nearby office.

Mr. Comey stopped addressing the group. He proceeded to shake hands with the employees he had been speaking to. Then he stepped into a side office, where he confirmed that he had been fired. At that point, he had not heard from the White House.

Shortly thereafter, a letter from Mr. Trump was delivered to the F.B.I.’s headquarters, just seven blocks from the White House.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/us/p ... p=cur&_r=0

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PostRe: The American Politics Thread - Trump fires FBI Director
by Garth » Wed May 10, 2017 2:17 am

Grand jury subpoenas issued in FBI's Russia investigation

Federal prosecutors have issued grand jury subpoenas to associates of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn seeking business records, as part of the ongoing probe of Russian meddling in last year's election, according to people familiar with the matter. CNN learned of the subpoenas hours before President Donald Trump fired FBI director James Comey.

The subpoenas represent the first sign of a significant escalation of activity in the FBI's broader investigation begun last July into possible ties between Trump campaign associates and Russia.

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/09/polit ... index.html

Trump Hires Law Firm to Fight Suggestions of Russia Business Ties: http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politic ... d_nn_tw_ma

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PostRe: The American Politics Thread - Trump fires FBI Director
by Rightey » Wed May 10, 2017 2:21 am

Wasn't this the same guy who ordered the email case be re-opened after declaring it done? I thought he was a Trump ally, or was it just media spin?

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PostRe: The American Politics Thread - Trump fires FBI Director
by Garth » Wed May 10, 2017 2:34 am

Rightey wrote:Wasn't this the same guy who ordered the email case be re-opened after declaring it done? I thought he was a Trump ally, or was it just media spin?


Yep. Trump and Republicans loved Comey for that, but lately he's been leading the investigation into the Trump/Russia connections, connections which have led to multiple people around Trump either having to be fired or forced to recuse themselves from investigations due to uncovered communications or ties with Russia, and in some cases lying about it under oath (including Trump's Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who recommended that Comey be fired).

The House and the Senate are also investigating the Trump/Russia stuff, but Republicans control the House and Senate so those investigations aren't expected to go anywhere. The FBI investigation was much more independent and appeared to be making progress, and now Trump has suddenly decided Comey should go and be replaced with his own choice of Director while the investigation is still ongoing.

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by Alvin Flummux » Wed May 10, 2017 4:16 am

Trump's Russian Saga continues...

Eric Trump said family golf courses attracted Russian funding, author claims

President’s son denies he said Trump Organization had ‘all the funding we need’ from Russia while Donald Trump ‘tossed off that he had access to $100m’

Eric Trump said three years ago the Trump Organization had “all the funding we need out of Russia” for its golf course projects, according to an author recounting the story of a 2014 meeting with Donald Trump and his son.

Trump-Russia investigation reignites as Senate asks aides to hand over notes

The author also said Donald Trump “sort of tossed off that he had access to $100m”.

The author’s comments – which Eric Trump later said were “completely fabricated” – prompted widespread interest in the media and online.

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Many observers believe Trump’s tax returns – which he refuses, against 40 years of precedent, to release – will contain evidence of financial relationships with Russian sources. The president has repeatedly denied any such links, despite the existence of statements suggesting otherwise made before his run for office.

Golf writer James Dodson was speaking to WBUR-FM, a Boston-area national public radio station, on Friday. The co-author of Arnold Palmer’s autobiography described a visit to the Trump national golf club in Charlotte, North Carolina.

“Trump was strutting up and down, talking to his new members about how they were part of the greatest club in North Carolina,” Dodson said. “And when I first met him, I asked him – you know, this is the journalist in me – I said: ‘What are you using to pay for these courses?’ And he just sort of tossed off that he had access to $100m.”

Eric Trump, the president’s younger son who is now executive vice-president of the Trump Organization, was also present.

Dodson continued: “So when I got in the cart with Eric, as we were setting off [to play], I said” ‘Eric, who’s funding? I know no banks – because of the recession, the great recession – have touched a golf course. You know, no one’s funding any kind of golf construction. It’s dead in the water the last four or five years.’

“And this is what he said. He said: ‘Well, we don’t rely on American banks. We have all the funding we need out of Russia.’ I said: ‘Really?’ And he said: ‘Oh, yeah. We’ve got some guys that really, really love golf, and they’re really invested in our programs. We just go there all the time.’

“Now that was three years ago, so it was pretty interesting.”

In a tweet issued early on Monday morning, Eric Trump wrote: “This story is completely fabricated and just another example of why there is such a deep distrust of the media in our country.”

Donald Trump has strongly denied many reported links and contacts with Russia. For example, shortly before his inauguration in January he tweeted: “Russia has never tried to use leverage over me. I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA – NO DEALS, NO LOANS, NO NOTHING!”

In 2013, however, after hosting the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow, he told Real Estate Weekly: “The Russian market is attracted to me, I have a great relationship with many Russians.” He also said that “almost all of the oligarchs were in the room” at a party he threw.

On Sunday morning, he pursued another tactic, writing on Twitter: “When will the Fake Media ask about the Dems dealings with Russia & why the DNC wouldn’t allow the FBI to check their server or investigate?”

Trump’s older son, Donald Jr, has also made mention of financial relationships in Russia. In 2008, speaking at a real estate conference, he said: “We are looking all over the place, primarily Russia.”

He also said: “And in terms of high-end product influx into the US, Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets; say in Dubai, and certainly with our project in SoHo and anywhere in New York. We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.”

Trump, who has been widely criticized for the amount of time he spends on his own golf courses, spent this weekend at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey. On Saturday night, he tweeted: “The reason I am staying in Bedminster, NJ, a beautiful community, is that staying in [New York City] is much more expensive and disruptive. Meetings!”

A picture posted to Instagram by a club member appeared to show the president playing golf.

Dodson, meanwhile, recounted a meal of cheeseburgers and being enveloped in a “bro hug” by Trump, and said: “You know, I liked the guy. I liked him. I mean, he was somebody you’d like to play golf with.”

He also recounted an exchange with Trump about Palmer, the great champion who died in 2016: “He crossed one finger over the other and he said, ‘Arnold and I are like that.’

“And I told Arnold that the next night at dinner and he laughed and said, ‘Really, Shakespeare? It’s more like this.’ And he crossed his hands and put them at his own throat.”


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... hor-claims

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PostRe: The American Politics Thread - Trump fires FBI Director
by Moggy » Wed May 10, 2017 7:56 am

Trump. :fp:

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PostRe: The American Politics Thread - Trump fires FBI Director
by Drumstick » Wed May 10, 2017 8:15 am

Moggy wrote:Trump. :fp:

It wouldn't be funny if it weren't so sad. Such corruption.

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PostRe: The American Politics Thread - Trump fires FBI Director
by Moggy » Wed May 10, 2017 8:38 am

Drumstick wrote:
Moggy wrote:Trump. :fp:

It wouldn't be funny if it weren't so sad. Such corruption.


If this was a sitcom then it wouldn't be funny as it's way too far fetched.

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PostRe: The American Politics Thread - Trump fires FBI Director
by KK » Wed May 10, 2017 9:04 am

I think what everyone is missing here is thus: Towering at 6'8", with enormous hands and full head of normally maintained hair, Comey was simply too tall to appear beside Trump in photos, therefore he obviously had to be fired.

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PostRe: The American Politics Thread - Trump fires FBI Director
by Preezy » Wed May 10, 2017 9:12 am

Alvin Flummux wrote:
Donald Trump ‘tossed off that he had access to $100m’

The author also said Donald Trump “sort of tossed off that he had access to $100m”.

And he just sort of tossed off that he had access to $100m.

Ooh yeah keep going :datass:

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PostRe: The American Politics Thread - Trump fires FBI Director
by captain red dog » Wed May 10, 2017 9:53 am

Comey had to go really after the hash he made of the Hillary investigation during the election campaign. The timing is horrific however and I'd be surprised if Trump wasn't advised about how it would look. Actually scratch that, I'd probably be surprised if it was a genuine concern as the Whitehouse don't seem to have a grip on anything.

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PostRe: The American Politics Thread - Trump fires FBI Director
by Peter Crisp » Wed May 10, 2017 3:29 pm

Fox news are going comically insane about this.
They don't even try and be an impartial news organisation any more and it's no wonder people who just choose them as a news source are so ill-informed.

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PostRe: The American Politics Thread - Trump fires FBI Director
by Preezy » Wed May 10, 2017 4:42 pm

twitter.com/GlennKesslerWP/status/862325489041645568


Trump bans any US press from being present for his meeting with the Russian Foreign Minister, naturally.

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edit: and just a day after sacking Comey, amazing :dread:
edit 2: and when they finally let the US press in, the Russian had already left by the backdoor. Trump is the arch-troll.

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by degoose » Wed May 10, 2017 4:54 pm

Peter Crisp wrote:Fox news are going comically insane about this.
They don't even try and be an impartial news organisation any more and it's no wonder people who just choose them as a news source are so ill-informed.

Is there actually a decent news channel in the U.S ,they all seem a bit over the top with their style of repirting. Fox are obviously the worst and have a huge pro trump agenda.

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