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Comey friend alarmed by Rosenstein's 'private conversations' with Trump
Washington Examiner ^ | 04-30-19 | Daniel Chaitin

Posted on 04/30/2019 3:48:21 PM PDT by Steve1999

A "good friend" of former FBI Director James Comey indicated there is cause for concern in Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's resignation letter. In announcing his resignation on Monday, Rosenstein thanked President Trump for "the courtesy and humor you often display in our personal conversations.”

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Local News; Military/Veterans; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: benjaminwittes; comey; trump
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1 posted on 04/30/2019 3:48:21 PM PDT by Steve1999
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What a sick leftist. Comey is 100% a leftist plotter.


2 posted on 04/30/2019 3:50:51 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant.)
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To: Steve1999

3 posted on 04/30/2019 3:51:02 PM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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Just because Comey’s entire family was at the pussyhat protest doesn’t mean he is a Dem.


4 posted on 04/30/2019 3:52:25 PM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: Steve1999

Comey’s friend thinks the deputy AG shouldn’t have private conversations with the President? Is there a law against it, Mr. Lawfare? Like Obama and Holder never did? I’m sure Fast and Furious was conceived during a private conversation.


5 posted on 04/30/2019 3:57:19 PM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: Steve1999

The “good friend” is Benjamin Wittes of Lawfare. He is a Muslim Brotherhood apologist:

(Daniel Larison writes in The Conservative: ... “If Trump goes ahead with this, it would not be the first time that the Trump administration has run roughshod over U.S. law to do what they want, but it is important to understand that there is no legal basis for what the administration is preparing to do here.
McCants and Wittes add:
If credible evidence of terrorist activity is not forthcoming, it would quite simply be illegal for the United States to designate the Brotherhood on purely ideological grounds. To be sure, the Egyptian Brotherhood pursues an illiberal agenda in a democratic framework, but that is not a lawless act. Criminalizing the group for a set of ideas, by contrast, would be a lawless act.
It would also be the latest sign that the Trump administration is so heavily influenced by the authoritarian governments of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE that these client states are effectively dictating U.S. foreign policy on a number of issues.


6 posted on 04/30/2019 4:03:18 PM PDT by Bookshelf
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Deputy AG is often the chosen person to deliver issue papers and DOJ updates to the POTUS. It's part of the job and they spoke regularly if perhaps not on the very best of terms.

I don't doubt PDJT could put any animosity aside so the guy could do his job and it sounds like RR noticed exactly that.

Likely a fine example of a guilty conscience on the part of Cardinal Comey's best buddy?

7 posted on 04/30/2019 4:03:36 PM PDT by Sa-teef
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To: Steve1999
The deputy attorney general shouldn't be having "personal conversations" with the president. https://t.co/3OezMaxfhu — Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) April 29, 2019

I don't recall now, is this the asshat that Comey shared his FBI work product with? The one who wrote the op-ed for him?

8 posted on 04/30/2019 4:09:04 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Steve1999

The house of cards is about to be knocked down. If I was Comey I would be worried as well. I wonder if he is planning any trips out of the country soon.


9 posted on 04/30/2019 4:09:31 PM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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The deputy attorney general shouldn't be having "personal conversations" with the president.

Sort of like, AG Loretta Lynch should not have been having personal conversations with the husband of a presidential candidate who was under investigation by the FBI.
10 posted on 04/30/2019 4:10:38 PM PDT by adorno
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+1

I was just going to post about that.


11 posted on 04/30/2019 4:11:25 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Steve1999
"The deputy attorney general shouldn't be having 'personal conversations' with the president,"

HA! Based on what theory of propriety?

12 posted on 04/30/2019 4:16:49 PM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: Steve1999

So that’s what full blown TDS looks like....

They should stick him in a loony bun before he hurts himself......


13 posted on 04/30/2019 4:18:29 PM PDT by Popman
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To: Steve1999

Comey and company have good cause to be concerned.


14 posted on 04/30/2019 4:20:18 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: Bookshelf; All
"...that there is no legal basis for what the administration is preparing to do here..."

Sounds like someone is worried and knows something is ABOUT TO happen.

15 posted on 04/30/2019 4:20:24 PM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: liberalh8ter
Is there a law against it...

No. There is a law for it called the US Constitution. All executive power is vested in the President.

16 posted on 04/30/2019 4:39:02 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Steve1999

Save your alarm for those across the glass meetings with your friend Jim.


17 posted on 04/30/2019 4:46:59 PM PDT by databoss
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To: Steve1999

Comey’s family of moonbats gave $2,700 to Amy Koubachar.


18 posted on 04/30/2019 4:47:05 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (President Trump is right! The media IS the enemy of the people!)
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To: Steve1999

He can visit his tall friend in jail....


19 posted on 04/30/2019 5:02:00 PM PDT by richardtavor
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Comey is the antithesis of ethics. That he is ‘teaching’ ethics is like going to McDonalds for Chocolate-covered strawberries and Dom Perignon.
20 posted on 04/30/2019 5:08:46 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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