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Memos detail FBI’s ‘Hurry the F up pressure’ to probe Trump campaign
The Hill ^ | 7/6/18 | John Solomon

Posted on 07/06/2018 6:32:35 AM PDT by markomalley

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To: Starboard

“Unfortunately, it does not appear that Trump is willing to do”

Why on Earth would Trump do this before the midterms when all he would do is energize and focus his divided opposition with a “political persecution” (what it would be called by every single media outlet in the world)?

Once the Republicans have retained or solidified their majority in the midterms he will have much stronger support within his own party and no danger to any action he wants to take to reform DOJ and remove Sessions and Rosenstein (I actually expect them both to resign the day after the midterms if Republicans retain power). Winning one election can be a fluke, if he “wins” the midterms too, the Democrats will be in a world of hurt and unable to make any issue out of cleaning house at DOJ or FBI.

As for perp walks...I wouldn’t expect too much...the obvious fall guys like Page and Strzok and maybe McCabe - yeah, I could see that. But above that level, that’s pretty far outside American tradition and would be focusing on the past when American politics is always about the future...there’s little percentage in going after people who are out of office, out of jobs, out of power, when there are always problems that need to be addressed.


41 posted on 07/06/2018 9:19:07 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: markomalley; All

NEWS ALERT: Today is the House-imposed deadline for the DOJ to provide Russia documents.

https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1015259987923349505


42 posted on 07/06/2018 9:21:40 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("itYou can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: LibFreeUSA

At this point all should be awaiting execution.


43 posted on 07/06/2018 9:27:40 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: Starboard

If President Trump, whom I love dearly, doesn’t act in a bigly and divisive way soon them he becomes part of the cover-up in a de facto sense. At that point the JCS must step in.


44 posted on 07/06/2018 9:30:49 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

God, I hope Trump reads your post AND DOES THE OPPOSITE!


45 posted on 07/06/2018 9:35:55 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: volunbeer

the start acting on information that was being pushed to them by CIA, State, MI-6, Clinton Camp, and the office of the DNI/prior administration.”

You remember Covfefe.... Trump put it out there on FaceBook then let it sink in for several hours. Then made reference to Covfefe in a rally speech, I believe.

Well..... I read somewhere on FR that it meant “Covert Five Eyes, Five Eyes”. The Brits and the Aussies perhaps were in on the spygate / corruption.

Go Trump. He is more popular now than on election night. Left can’t stand it.


46 posted on 07/06/2018 9:43:59 AM PDT by WaterWeWaitinFor ("We will be one people under one God, saluting one American flag". DJT 9/12/16)
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To: markomalley
... irrefutable proof exists that agents sought to create pressure to get “derogatory” information and a “pretext” to interview people close to a future president they didn’t like.

The job of the FBI appears to be to protect liberal elites. AND the pet victim groups of liberal elites'...

We all pay with our taxes to protect the FBI - - under the delusion they protect all of us, but in fact they don't give a damn about average citizens. They care about liberal 'elites'...

The FBI cares about making sure Hillary can keep stealing, Bill can get away with rape, and the snowflakes on Martha's Vineyard are protected. Their other task is to trash and investigate 'deplorables' - just like the IRS did - to keep them from speaking out against corrupt elites.

47 posted on 07/06/2018 9:51:19 AM PDT by GOPJ ( BEST REASON TO STOP immigration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-s1_nfs7f4)
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To: volunbeer

“Nunes is obviously aware of the State Dept, but the CIA and DNI offices have escaped scrutiny to this point.”

Our President Trump came in to office with a plan.

Nunes, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence chair, knows the whole story, and he’s carefully advancing it chapter by as need be.

Mike Pompeo started out as CIA Director: He knew where the bodies were buried, and immediately moved to secure all the evidence his predecessor, John Brennan, was unable to destroy or spirit away.

Now, as Secretary of State, he is unearthing all the evidence that his predecessors there—Hillary Clinton and John Kerry—had buried there “in the basement of Foggy Bottom.” Benghazi, the Iranian nuclear deal, Clinton Foundation graft, Haiti profiteering, human trafficking, child porn, et. al.

The raprochement is key, and not just for the prospect of a de-nuclearized Korean penninsula. The uniparty has had a vested interest in propping up the nuclear weapons ambitions of the Two Towers of Evil: North Korea and Iran.

President Trump is taking a direct, personal approach to de-fanging these regimes, though economic and trade incentives with North Korea and support for the growing revolutionary opposition to the Mullahs controlling Iran.

President would not have run for this job if he wasn’t convinced he could win. While it may be difficult for us to be patient, we must understand that it takes TIME for all these thing to fall into place. And, ultimately, TIME is on President Trump’s side.


48 posted on 07/06/2018 10:23:43 AM PDT by agave (Jesus: Bigger Than the Beatles)
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To: Salvey

Wait until the day after the elections. He’ll sweep them all out from Sessions on down.


49 posted on 07/06/2018 10:29:19 AM PDT by Founding Father (The Pedophile moHAMmudd [PBUH---Pigblood be upon him]; Charles Martel for President)
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To: central_va
I too support Trump and donated generously to his campaign. He has done a great job so far, however there is a serious infestation of subversive, partisan politics within some of our federal agencies (e.g., DOJ, FBI, IRS) that needs to be cleaned out. To wit, Cicero said the following:

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”

What is going on is more than corruption. It is subversion and therefore a threat to the nation and our institutions. We need Trump to step up and remove the rot from the executive agencies under his purview. As the chief executive, it is his responsibility.

50 posted on 07/06/2018 10:59:47 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: markomalley
There’s one solution to this mess:
The Republicans should tell Trump that he has to declassify the stuff Congress has been demanding - on pain of impeachment.
The Democrats can’t oppose that, so the Republican Congress can actually credibly threaten it. Only trouble is, the Republican Congressmen would have to stand up and be counted. The hiding would be over.

51 posted on 07/06/2018 11:03:04 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (Journalism promotes itself - and promotes big government - by speaking ill of society.)
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To: Hotlanta Mike

NEWS ALERT: Today is the House-imposed deadline for the DOJ to provide Russia documents.

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Too many “deadlines” to keep track of. Fake deadlines.


52 posted on 07/06/2018 11:04:15 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Professional

I’m gonna take a stab at why the criminals aren’t being forcefully brought to justice: the President has too many enemies in the Congress who would assist impeachment. This fact became evident after a few months of his Presidency. I believe even Trump was taken aback by the moral lassitude of Congress. Now he gets it. And therefore all he can do is try to shape the next Congress which we see him doing with all his speeches recently.


53 posted on 07/06/2018 11:08:15 AM PDT by The Westerner (Protect the most vulnerable: get the government out of medicine and education.)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

Why would Trump not declassify the documents being withheld by HIS agencies? This makes sense for two reasons: First its the right thing to do. The American people need to know the full scope and depth of this subversion. That seems intuitively obvious to anyone who cares about this country. Second, it would be politically advantageous to Trump as it would expose the deep seated antipathy against him and document the extremely dangerous political weaponization of our federal agencies. His opposition can’t do anything about it — and release of the documents will scorch them.

I disagree with you that Rosenstein and Sessions would resign. Sessions is a Deep State plant and his “sponsors”” expect him to remain in place where he can undermine Trump. Rosenstein is clearly Jeff Sessions’ alter ego. He is arrogantly defiant. People like that don’t willingly resign and give up power.

Trump is going to have to force them out. The sooner the better. Management 101 says never leave your adversaries in positions where they can undermine you and thwart your agenda. And...never underestimate the lengths they will go to to conspire against you, not to mention that they have lots of confederates who are willing accomplices. Its past time for Rosenstein and Sessions to be relieved of their duties. It is very dangerous to let them hang around.


54 posted on 07/06/2018 11:27:59 AM PDT by Starboard
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55 posted on 07/06/2018 11:36:21 AM PDT by a little elbow grease (Zip ties and duct tape are far more productive than pussy hats and #metoo tweets)
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To: Starboard

The Deep-seated antipathy against Trump is already known and well-understood, there is nothing more to add to what is already understood by anyone who is not a leftist. The release won’t scorch the opposition, they won’t change their opinions no matter what. And it won’t do anything but reinforce what his supporters already know...there’s no real gain there, except for the historical record.

I don’t know if he will declassify or not, but I somewhat doubt he will take that risk if the midterms continue to look good. He’s not going to upset the political applecart with any potentially dangerous moves. The danger from declassifying the corruption is that there are a lot of people sitting in prison right now that we want to stay in prison - people who were prosecuted under federal law. If he blows up the DOJ with a declassify order, he might subject all those prosecutions to appeals because their processes have been shown to be corrupted. I don’t know how much risk there is from this, but that might be a reason not to utterly destroy the agency in that way.

I believe Sessions and Rosenstein will resign after the midterms in order that they don’t get fired...one of the two will happen and they know it. Zero sum game. If Trump wins the midterms, his power will be exponentially greater than it is today. That’s why he won’t take any risky actions before the vote. He’s better off as a beleaguered fighter, besieged by radical, crazy, wild donkey opponents before the election. It energizes his voters.

Management 101 isn’t Politics 101. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Abraham Lincoln is the model...his cabinet was full of bitter personal enemies. And he wouldnt take any major actions without having them be a follow on to a major victory. Trump understands this well.


56 posted on 07/06/2018 12:16:39 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: markomalley

John Solomon rips a scab off an open wound and The Hill relegates it to “opinion.”
Where’s the opinion?

Hat tip: John Solomon!


57 posted on 07/06/2018 12:19:20 PM PDT by romanesq (For George Soros so loved the world, he gave us Obama)
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To: markomalley

It’s time for Little Bobby Mueller and his nasty band of unemployed Clintoon shysters to take a hike or face charges. Americans are sick of paying those two bit bastards to continue with their commie left fiasco. The jig is up! Over! Kaput!


58 posted on 07/06/2018 1:02:43 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't pass up the opportunity to use the Second Amendment today! IT'S FREE!)
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To: markomalley

People are going to prison when? /s


59 posted on 07/06/2018 1:44:09 PM PDT by cranked
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To: central_va

“If President Trump, whom I love dearly, doesn’t act in a bigly and divisive way soon them he becomes part of the cover-up in a de facto sense.”

POTUS knows what he’s doing. He’s not telegraphing it but he’s let the frogs all get in the water. They jumped right into the pot.

Now, it’s set on low and going to hit a slow boil.


60 posted on 07/06/2018 2:08:54 PM PDT by romanesq (For George Soros so loved the world, he gave us Obama)
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