Comey is out!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sources tell CBS: Kushner was a prominent voice advocating Comey's firing & the President's angry that move has created a firestorm

Unbelievable. He cannot go a day without finding someone to blame.

Yup. Even when it is family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm so tired of all this winning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rosenstein told senators he knew Comey would be fired before he wrote the memo. WH cover story was a lie from the start.

Where is this stated?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rosenstein told senators he knew Comey would be fired before he wrote the memo. WH cover story was a lie from the start.

Where is this stated?

Several Senators have said that Rosenstein said or indicated that at the private meeting today.

[Anonymous]

Rosenstein has released his opening statement from his congressional briefings. He said that because of last summer, he believed that Comey needed to go and wrote that in his memo. He says that he learned on May 8 that Trump intended to replace Comey and wanted his input. So Rosenstein wrote the memo, and Trump immediately fired Comey the next day on May 9. After several days of mixed messages, Trump said that he fired Comey because of the Russia thing.

https://mobile.twitter.com/politiCOHEN_/status/865592707187523585

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rosenstein has released his opening statement from his congressional briefings. He said that because of last summer, he believed that Comey needed to go and wrote that in his memo. He says that he learned on May 8 that Trump intended to replace Comey and wanted his input. So Rosenstein wrote the memo, and Trump immediately fired Comey the next day on May 9. After several days of mixed messages, Trump said that he fired Comey because of the Russia thing.

https://mobile.twitter.com/politiCOHEN_/status/865592707187523585

He also made it clear that Comey did not ask for more resources for the Russia investigation. That was indeed fake news.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rosenstein has released his opening statement from his congressional briefings. He said that because of last summer, he believed that Comey needed to go and wrote that in his memo. He says that he learned on May 8 that Trump intended to replace Comey and wanted his input. So Rosenstein wrote the memo, and Trump immediately fired Comey the next day on May 9. After several days of mixed messages, Trump said that he fired Comey because of the Russia thing.

https://mobile.twitter.com/politiCOHEN_/status/865592707187523585

He also made it clear that Comey did not ask for more resources for the Russia investigation. That was indeed fake news.

To be clear, neither he nor any senior leadership at FBI can recall that there was a request for additional resources. I don't know the original source for that assertion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rosenstein has released his opening statement from his congressional briefings. He said that because of last summer, he believed that Comey needed to go and wrote that in his memo. He says that he learned on May 8 that Trump intended to replace Comey and wanted his input. So Rosenstein wrote the memo, and Trump immediately fired Comey the next day on May 9. After several days of mixed messages, Trump said that he fired Comey because of the Russia thing.

https://mobile.twitter.com/politiCOHEN_/status/865592707187523585

He also made it clear that Comey did not ask for more resources for the Russia investigation. That was indeed fake news.

Careful parsing of words. He's a political weasel trying to walk the tightrope until Sessions is forced to resign to spend more time with his burning cross, hood and robe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rosenstein has released his opening statement from his congressional briefings. He said that because of last summer, he believed that Comey needed to go and wrote that in his memo. He says that he learned on May 8 that Trump intended to replace Comey and wanted his input. So Rosenstein wrote the memo, and Trump immediately fired Comey the next day on May 9. After several days of mixed messages, Trump said that he fired Comey because of the Russia thing.

https://mobile.twitter.com/politiCOHEN_/status/865592707187523585

He also made it clear that Comey did not ask for more resources for the Russia investigation. That was indeed fake news.

I found an article saying that Comey requested and received more prosecutors. Whether that was also fake news, or whether Rosenstein and McCabe didn't know or didn't understand the question, I don't know. I'm also not that concerned. It may have been fake news or just a minor detail. Either way, not important. (Some people tried to make it seem important, but they've dropped it already.)

This doesn't seem to reflect well on Rosenstein, imo. He wrote a negative internal memory that was immediately and unsurprisingly used as an initial justification of firing the Director of the FBI. This makes him look like a "survivor".

It also doesn't reflect well on Trump. Fortunately, Mueller is highly respected by everyone, of both parties, and the general public. Somebody needs to be, in this mess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rosenstein has released his opening statement from his congressional briefings. He said that because of last summer, he believed that Comey needed to go and wrote that in his memo. He says that he learned on May 8 that Trump intended to replace Comey and wanted his input. So Rosenstein wrote the memo, and Trump immediately fired Comey the next day on May 9. After several days of mixed messages, Trump said that he fired Comey because of the Russia thing.

https://mobile.twitter.com/politiCOHEN_/status/865592707187523585

He also made it clear that Comey did not ask for more resources for the Russia investigation. That was indeed fake news.

To be clear, neither he nor any senior leadership at FBI can recall that there was a request for additional resources. I don't know the original source for that assertion.

It was the WaPo and “anonymous sources.” TBH - it is because of stories like this that are totally false and rely on unnamed sources that make many of us totally skeptical of the media. It is happening way too frequently.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/05/10/comey-sought-more-money-for-russia-probe-days-before-he-was-fired-officials-say/?utm_term=.2030a104b707

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rosenstein has released his opening statement from his congressional briefings. He said that because of last summer, he believed that Comey needed to go and wrote that in his memo. He says that he learned on May 8 that Trump intended to replace Comey and wanted his input. So Rosenstein wrote the memo, and Trump immediately fired Comey the next day on May 9. After several days of mixed messages, Trump said that he fired Comey because of the Russia thing.

https://mobile.twitter.com/politiCOHEN_/status/865592707187523585

He also made it clear that Comey did not ask for more resources for the Russia investigation. That was indeed fake news.

Careful parsing of words. He's a political weasel trying to walk the tightrope until Sessions is forced to resign to spend more time with his burning cross, hood and robe.

Just stop. Rosenstein made it clear. There was no parsing of words.
And as for the rest of your comment - go do some damn research. You are revealing yourself as totally ignorant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rosenstein has released his opening statement from his congressional briefings. He said that because of last summer, he believed that Comey needed to go and wrote that in his memo. He says that he learned on May 8 that Trump intended to replace Comey and wanted his input. So Rosenstein wrote the memo, and Trump immediately fired Comey the next day on May 9. After several days of mixed messages, Trump said that he fired Comey because of the Russia thing.

https://mobile.twitter.com/politiCOHEN_/status/865592707187523585

He also made it clear that Comey did not ask for more resources for the Russia investigation. That was indeed fake news.

I found an article saying that Comey requested and received more prosecutors. Whether that was also fake news, or whether Rosenstein and McCabe didn't know or didn't understand the question, I don't know. I'm also not that concerned. It may have been fake news or just a minor detail. Either way, not important. (Some people tried to make it seem important, but they've dropped it already.)

This doesn't seem to reflect well on Rosenstein, imo. He wrote a negative internal memory that was immediately and unsurprisingly used as an initial justification of firing the Director of the FBI. This makes him look like a "survivor".

It also doesn't reflect well on Trump. Fortunately, Mueller is highly respected by everyone, of both parties, and the general public. Somebody needs to be, in this mess.

Nice spin. But, the WaPo made it a big deal when it was nothing but fake news.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm so tired of all this winning.

Can we have a national referendum to confirm that Trump indeed has made America Great Again and that he inarguably is the most successful chief executive in history. He could then step down and go back to hole himself up in the Tower of Sauron.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rosenstein has released his opening statement from his congressional briefings. He said that because of last summer, he believed that Comey needed to go and wrote that in his memo. He says that he learned on May 8 that Trump intended to replace Comey and wanted his input. So Rosenstein wrote the memo, and Trump immediately fired Comey the next day on May 9. After several days of mixed messages, Trump said that he fired Comey because of the Russia thing.

https://mobile.twitter.com/politiCOHEN_/status/865592707187523585

He also made it clear that Comey did not ask for more resources for the Russia investigation. That was indeed fake news.

Careful parsing of words. He's a political weasel trying to walk the tightrope until Sessions is forced to resign to spend more time with his burning cross, hood and robe.

Just stop. Rosenstein made it clear. There was no parsing of words.
And as for the rest of your comment - go do some damn research. You are revealing yourself as totally ignorant.

This is what he said. To me, it's not a clear denial nor is it particularly damning of the Administration:

Finally, I want to address the media claims that the FBI asked for additional resources for the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. I am not aware of any such request. Moreover, I consulted my staff and Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, and none of them recalls such a request.

https://lawfareblog.com/dag-rosensteins-statement-house-representatives-fbi-director-comeys-dismissal

These kinds of statements mean that they are not prepared to categorically refute something, but they have done a preliminary investigation and found no evidence to support it either. TBH, people are blaming the media and the unnamed sources for all of the scandal in the news, but if you ask me this is happening after 4 mos of a completely unreliable WH...not to mention likely a few Comey loyalists who have it in for the POTUS.

While I find the fact that it would seem IC and/or Federal LEO are intentionally sabotaging a POTUS (albeit one I think is terrible) to be quite frightening, I also think you need to look at the bigger picture here. There is very little happening right now that isn't the President's own making. Asking Comey to resign would have been the normal way to get him out of the FBI without creating a media frenzy. Not doubling-down on speculation by citing the ongoing investigation into Russia during a televised interview with a reporter would have been a way to quell the media frenzy you created. Not continuing to contact your disgraced ex-NSA Director after you asked him to resign would have been a way to let a news cycle run its course. All of these are things that Trump irrefutably did...and it's why people think he's behaving a like a guilty person, regardless of whether he is. IMHO, if he were anyone else acting this way, I would assume for sure they were guilty. With Trump the possibility that he's a lunatic or just an idiot (or both) are both, to my mind, equally likely possibilities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rosenstein has released his opening statement from his congressional briefings. He said that because of last summer, he believed that Comey needed to go and wrote that in his memo. He says that he learned on May 8 that Trump intended to replace Comey and wanted his input. So Rosenstein wrote the memo, and Trump immediately fired Comey the next day on May 9. After several days of mixed messages, Trump said that he fired Comey because of the Russia thing.

https://mobile.twitter.com/politiCOHEN_/status/865592707187523585

He also made it clear that Comey did not ask for more resources for the Russia investigation. That was indeed fake news.

Careful parsing of words. He's a political weasel trying to walk the tightrope until Sessions is forced to resign to spend more time with his burning cross, hood and robe.

Just stop. Rosenstein made it clear. There was no parsing of words.
And as for the rest of your comment - go do some damn research. You are revealing yourself as totally ignorant.

This is what he said. To me, it's not a clear denial nor is it particularly damning of the Administration:

Finally, I want to address the media claims that the FBI asked for additional resources for the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. I am not aware of any such request. Moreover, I consulted my staff and Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe, and none of them recalls such a request.

https://lawfareblog.com/dag-rosensteins-statement-house-representatives-fbi-director-comeys-dismissal

These kinds of statements mean that they are not prepared to categorically refute something, but they have done a preliminary investigation and found no evidence to support it either. TBH, people are blaming the media and the unnamed sources for all of the scandal in the news, but if you ask me this is happening after 4 mos of a completely unreliable WH...not to mention likely a few Comey loyalists who have it in for the POTUS.

While I find the fact that it would seem IC and/or Federal LEO are intentionally sabotaging a POTUS (albeit one I think is terrible) to be quite frightening, I also think you need to look at the bigger picture here. There is very little happening right now that isn't the President's own making. Asking Comey to resign would have been the normal way to get him out of the FBI without creating a media frenzy. Not doubling-down on speculation by citing the ongoing investigation into Russia during a televised interview with a reporter would have been a way to quell the media frenzy you created. Not continuing to contact your disgraced ex-NSA Director after you asked him to resign would have been a way to let a news cycle run its course. All of these are things that Trump irrefutably did...and it's why people think he's behaving a like a guilty person, regardless of whether he is. IMHO, if he were anyone else acting this way, I would assume for sure they were guilty. With Trump the possibility that he's a lunatic or just an idiot (or both) are both, to my mind, equally likely possibilities.

And, let’s look at what the WaPo wrote.........

Last week, then-FBI Director James B. Comey requested more resources from the Justice Department for his bureau’s investigation into collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government, according to two officials with knowledge of the discussion.

Comey, who was fired by President Trump on Tuesday, made the request in a meeting last week with Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, and later briefed the chair and Democratic ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Monday, the officials said.

So, not only is the Post saying a request was made.... they said it was made from the very person who is denying he is aware of such a request.
As I said, it was a BS story.