Posted on 02/01/2018 7:42:18 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
President Trump was only vaguely aware of a controversial, classified memo about the FBI’s Russia investigation when two House conservatives brought it to his attention in a Jan. 18 phone call.
The conversation piqued Trump’s interest.
Over the next two weeks, according to interviews with eight senior administration officials and other advisers to the president, he tuned in to cable television segments about the memo. He talked to friends and advisers about it. And, before he had even read it, Trump became absolutely convinced of one thing: The memo needed to come out.
“He was listening to a number of members of Congress talk about how concerned they are and what they read. It’s not just a couple of us,” said Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), one of the House conservatives who spoke with Trump on the Jan. 18 call, which had focused mostly on the impending government shutdown.
Trump’s decision, expected to culminate Friday with the memo’s release, put the president on course for the most explosive confrontation with his own FBI since he fired then-director James B. Comey last spring. It once again placed him in direct defiance of the recommendations of the country’s intelligence community, whose top official tried this week to change Trump’s mind amid concerns that the document’s disclosure would jeopardize national security.
But the president was undeterred.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
release the effing thing already
Even better than that, someone will upload it to Facebook. /s
BS ! More fake news !
I betcha the President and his White House staff, aides and advisors would break open the champagne and party all night if Wray would quit.
Me, too !
Leni
MAGA!
#ReleaseTheMemo #NoRedactions
Donald Trump is in a death struggle with the deep state. If anyone thinks he was not total aware of this memo they are idiots. If you believe what the Washington Post says about this, you make the village idiot look like Einstein.
In the past when the Washington Post lied it had a semblance of reality. Today it has wandered off into Alice and Wonderland. The Washington Post has taken the blue pill and all is not well though in their reality all is blue and good. (The Matrix)
Yeah—that statement struck me as pure bs, too!
I hardly think Trump’s main source of information is TV news—even though I’m sure he does like to watch Fox news.
I understand that President Trump watches multiple TV news channels every day. So if he wasn't aware it, it was because about the only channel that would have discussed it was Fox News. None of the other networks would have covered it.
The memo first broke on the gorilla channel. Try to keep up.
What the hell is the Gorilla Channel?
Call your cable TV provider and see if they have it.
A rumor that President Trump watched the gorilla channel for hours a day ...
“I’m sure he does like to watch Fox news
On one of his first days in office — maybe his first day — Fox and Friends asked him to flick the lights in his office if he was watching. The lights flipped off and then on again.
Gorilla Channel - I believe it was one of the fabrications about Trump in the Wolff book.
:)
exactly! If they don’t like it, let them quit. They sat back and let the government sponsored treachery transpire without stopping it; sort of like all the celebrities who “knew” about Harvey Weinstein but didn’t say a word. Screw ‘em all!
I might have been born at night...but it wasn't last night. Thanks anyway.
Hadn’t heard that. Thanks.
In response to this #FakeNews, and various excerpts and paraphrases of it, a lot of people really did call their cable providers to see if they could get the Gorilla Channel.
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