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TRUMP TWEET -- demanding DOJ look into infiltration of his campaign!
twitter acct of Donald J. Trump ^ | 5-20-18 | POTUS

Posted on 05/20/2018 10:43:58 AM PDT by doug from upland

Donald J. Trump ‏ Verified account

@realDonaldTrump 6m6 minutes ago More I hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department of Justice look into whether or not the FBI/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes - and if any such demands or requests were made by people within the Obama Administration!


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 17dchess; braking; coup; deepstate; doj; election; fbi; investigatefbidoj; kabuki; trump; trump2016; trumpdoj; trumptweet; trustsessions; twitter
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To: Meet the New Boss; WASCWatch

Rudy’s the best for ramping up public opinion. The very best, in my opinion. But if he’s a special counsel, does he have to quit doing the talk shows? That would be the only reason I would have for going with some U.S. attorney instead.


141 posted on 05/20/2018 12:01:25 PM PDT by Genoa (Luke 12:2)
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To: Just mythoughts
One of the things I've noticed is that you see a lot of commentary from lawyers in the media about the DOJ one way or another (Sessions supporters and Sessions bashers), but I don't think I've seen a single lawyer in the media who is critical of Sessions complain that things aren't happening fast enough. Lawyers know better than anyone what a legal process involves, and the importance of getting everything right the first time it's done.

Look how comical Mueller's team looks when they show up for their hearings in the Concord Management case so woefully unprepared.

142 posted on 05/20/2018 12:02:30 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's.")
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To: Truth29

This is all about the optics. Trump knows that public opinion plays into this and when enough GOP/independents are outraged about a Nixon like operation in the Obama DOJ/FBI..... then Congress will scream for a SP. Meantime, the US Atty Sessions talked about continues to his work.

Slow walk this thing into the summer and get hearings in August and the fall elections will be a breeze.

That’s what the long game looks like.....patience.


143 posted on 05/20/2018 12:03:03 PM PDT by blackberry1
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To: tennmountainman
Sessions is AWOL from the worst scandal in American History.

Wrong! sessions is part of it.
144 posted on 05/20/2018 12:03:30 PM PDT by JoSixChip (He is Batman!)
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To: Genoa

He can’t be a special counsel to oversee an investigation of illicit FBI-CIA surveillance of Donald Trump. As a member of Trump’s personal legal team he has an obvious conflict of interest.


145 posted on 05/20/2018 12:03:54 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's.")
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To: Alberta's Child

Rudy could resign as a member of Trump’s legal team, no?


146 posted on 05/20/2018 12:04:47 PM PDT by Genoa (Luke 12:2)
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To: Just mythoughts

In their stupidity of demanding Attorney General Session ‘wake-up’, means they have no clue how the Justice system is suppose to work.

Oh... you mean like take 15 months and do absolutely nothing?
If that’s the way the “justice system is suppose[d] to work,” maybe it needs to find a better way.

And, P.S. Jeff Sessions SUCKS.


147 posted on 05/20/2018 12:04:55 PM PDT by Pravious
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To: Alberta's Child

I mean, it’s not like Muleface didn’t have any conflicts!


148 posted on 05/20/2018 12:05:44 PM PDT by Genoa (Luke 12:2)
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To: GotMojo
Andrew McCarthy would be a great candidate.....

I heard McCarthy say Trump is a better president than he thought he would be. It took him a little longer than Levin to come around. Better late than never. Trump doesn't need a SC at the moment, he needs more fresh air. I think the Grassely and Nunes committees are the best avenue for that. Another SC would just bog things down again.

149 posted on 05/20/2018 12:05:46 PM PDT by EVO X
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To: entropy12
If he fails to do that, he will be a ONE TERMER

Do you have a crystal ball, or are you just talking out your ass?
150 posted on 05/20/2018 12:05:58 PM PDT by JoSixChip (He is Batman!)
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To: Eddie01

That is exactly what he is doing. When they ignore him, he will fire seesions and roensrein and give wray a chance to take over.


151 posted on 05/20/2018 12:06:17 PM PDT by richardtavor
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To: Alberta's Child
Look how comical Mueller's team looks when they show up for their hearings in the Concord Management case so woefully unprepared.

I know ... I am not a 'lawyer', one of my children is, and I have worked with and for lawyers in my prior life. I was 'shocked' that a Clinton Foundation lawyer showed up in court and was shown to be a third rate officer of the court...

152 posted on 05/20/2018 12:06:45 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: jazminerose

That’s the President’s real leverage—his ability to declassify whatever he chooses, at a time of his choosing.

Yes. He can declassify anything he wants whenever he chooses. The media will utterly refuse to report a word of it, the RATS will shed crocodile tears and accuse Trump of treason for “leaking national secrets and endangering the lives of innocent women, children and transgenders!” and Maxine Waters will call for impeachment.


153 posted on 05/20/2018 12:07:04 PM PDT by Pravious
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To: MNDude

“President Trump would not tweet this unless if he was 1,000% in control.
It’s going to happen!”


I agree with this.

There was a lot of strategizing that went into the President’s decision to make his tweet so official.

Like others have said, he doesn’t do anything major without forethought and plenty of it.


154 posted on 05/20/2018 12:07:36 PM PDT by Southnsoul
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To: Alberta's Child

...I don’t think I’ve seen a single lawyer in the media who is critical of Sessions complain that things aren’t happening fast enough. Lawyers know better than anyone what a legal process involves, and the importance of getting everything right the first time it’s done.

Or lawyers are just, by nature, so utterly corrupt and without morals that this kind of behavior just seems like second nature to them.


155 posted on 05/20/2018 12:08:32 PM PDT by Pravious
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To: Pravious
Oh... you mean like take 15 months and do absolutely nothing? If that’s the way the “justice system is suppose[d] to work,” maybe it needs to find a better way. And, P.S. Jeff Sessions SUCKS.

How long would it take you to sift through decades of planting progressives up and down the bureaucracy of 50,000 employees?

156 posted on 05/20/2018 12:09:05 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: Genoa

I think the DOJ should appoint a sitting US Attorney, perhaps Huber, to handle this under a general power to delegate and not rely on the 1999 special counsel regulation to bring in an outside person like McCarthy or Giuliani.

I have doubts that the 1999 regulation was properly drafted and would sustain a well-argued legal challenge. I know this is inconceivable given that it was drafted by ueber-brilliant super-lawyer Neal Katyal, but there you have it.


157 posted on 05/20/2018 12:09:27 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
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To: Genoa
He can resign, but he already is privy to a lot of information that is covered under lawyer-client privilege. That basically prevents him from taking another position as an attorney where he has to represent someone else's interests that might potentially conflict with Trump's interests.

If you hired a lawyer in a civil lawsuit, would you be OK if he left his firm halfway through the trial and showed up in court a few days later representing the other side in the lawsuit?

158 posted on 05/20/2018 12:09:31 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's.")
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To: doug from upland

I’m confused. A lot of folks in this thread are calling for Trump to appoint Rudy as a special prosecutor to go after all the deep state traitors.

But didn’t they finger Rudy as a deep state traitor who knew and covered up “the truth” about 9/11? So they’re saying he’s a good guy now?

This deep state stuff is hard to follow. Can someone point me to an updated list?


159 posted on 05/20/2018 12:10:16 PM PDT by HalfIrish
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To: JoSixChip

Correction appreciated.
Sessions is not indicting, nor will ever indict anyone.
A criminal referral was made to the DC District
Prosecutor to make the decision to indict or not
indict McCabe.
So Sessions is not nor will he ever be indicting
any of these criminals.
Let’s get that myth out of the way.


160 posted on 05/20/2018 12:11:44 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small fee.)
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