The policy and politics of Trumpism
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A rare non Friday bomb from WaPo.
Top intelligence official told associates Trump asked him if he could intervene with Comey on FBI Russia probe
Top intelligence official told associates Trump asked him if he could intervene with Comey on FBI Russia probe
Trump has apparently never forgiven Sessions for recusing himself from all Trump/Russia investigations. Tension between them has risen to the point where Sessions allegedly offered his resignation this week. Once Sessions could no longer shield him, Trump gathered Dan Coates and Mike Pompeo and asked them to help him make the Russia investigation go away. He asked the same of Comey, who was apparently so unsettled that he afterwards told Sessions never to let him be alone in a room with the president again.
Yeah, he seems pretty worried. I'm sure that WaPo article dropping the day before Coates testifies before the Senate was pure coincidence.
I might actually like Trump if he would promise to keep Sessions out of Alabama.
I hear ya, but please don't inflict Alabama politics on the rest of the country.
It's kinda weird how both Alabamians and Californians want to impose their politics on the rest of the country but don't want the other to do the same. Sometimes I think if they just let each other be that maybe our differences would fade; but, alas, everyone thinks they carry the banner of righteousness into battle.
Actually, that had crossed my mind also. However, he'll stick in DC, either in a well-connected law firm or as a lobbyist. I'd add that I don't expect him to last out the year, especially since he's not shown the stubbornness that Comey did. I think Trump fired Comey for effect, to make a statement of anger, but I think he also realized that, in all probability, he felt that Comey would not resign, if asked to...
no way Comey would have resigned he would have said no, wrote a memo to himself about it and told a couple of his co-workers about the request from Trump
Not that I disagree, but I was actually referring to the politicians themselves rather than their policies. For a while, I thought New England state governments had a monopoly on corruption, but lately Alabama has been trying very hard to steal that mantle.
Watching the over-site committee now on TV it seems that a backdoor version of executive privilege is being invoked without actually invoking executive privilege.:conf2: Could someone here with legal knowledge clarify whats going on?
But I just saw his America First ad running on CNN and hear he's doing so great but the media won't tell you about it.
It was very strange. Coates implied, without directly stating, that he couldn't answer questions about private conversations with Trump due to executive privilege. But then when pressed if he had a legal basis for not answering the Senators' questions on this topic, he responded, "I'm not sure I have a legal basis." Which was odd. Things will probably get clearer throughout the day, but early reporting/rumors seem to indicates that Coates et al. asked the White House about executive privilege, heard nothing in response, then decided to act in an abundance of caution.
No one that I heard actually invoked it. They simply said that they felt it not appropriate in a public session to answer many questions even though not classified. They seemed to be dancing around executive privilege without actually invoking it.
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