Posted on 11/28/2018 7:38:06 PM PST by caww
President Trump likely reinvigorated Republican lawmakers when he said is considering declassifying “devastating” Justice Department and FBI documents if House Democrats “want to play tough.”
The threat comes months after a handful of conservative lawmakers called on the president to declassify and release documents that they claim will show the Russia investigation is politically biased against the president...."If they want to play tough, I will do it. They will see how devastating those pages are,” Trump told the New York Post on Wednesday.
The request was made in September and heavily focused on documents relating to the surveillance warrant used against former Trump adviser Carter Page.
Also requested were documents detailing meetings former Justice Department official Bruce Ohr had with Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence agent who was paid by Democrats to write a salacious dossier about Trump, which had information the FBI relied on in its surveillance application on Page.
The new threat from the president comes as Democrats are set to take over the House in January, and the incoming committee chairmen have made it clear that the Trump administration will be the first target of their investigations.
Trump has already vowed to go after the Democrats, saying “two can play that game.”
“If the Democrats think they are going to waste Taxpayer Money investigating us at the House level, then we will likewise be forced to consider investigating them for all of the leaks of Classified Information, and much else, at the Senate level. Two can play that game!,” Trump said on Twitter the day after the midterm elections.
Democrats decried Republicans’ efforts to have the documents declassified as a broader push to discredit special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.
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Just do it already. They hate you, they hate us. Bitch slap them.
DO IT! This will be a large step in “draining the swamp.” Do it. But if he does not, I will acquiesce to his timing. What the hell does a fungus know?
Too bad he did nnot declassify before the midterm losses.
Additionally let Paul Ryan know that you want the entire list of congressmen that tapped into government funds for the purposes of hiding abuse and other sex scandals from the public. If Ryan resists throw his ass in jail.
They weren't his personal losses, so....
Don’t fall apart on us.
Trump knows exactly what he’s doing.
Stop meaningless threats.
Just release them.
Trump is the master wheeler dealer. That threat of release of docs puts the deep state in a pen. I sincerely believe he will once Mueller, the Deep State Mule, files his report.
Yawn...
I wish President Trump would stop this threatening to do stuff. He should just start retaliating without warning. Only then will the commies think twice about pulling crap in the first place.
Either we have the rule of law or we don’t. Either these people are guilty, or they are not.
So, if he has information that can harm the Dims, it can be assumed they are guilty of crimes. In this country, we prosecute crimes, we don’t use them as political tools.
My thought is to use the releases to get the Dems to the bargaining table. The problem of the deep state has to be fixed by Congress and getting a couple Dems to go along in the Senate would be very helpful and we might pick up enough in the House to fix some of the problems like FISA abuse.
What are we the people getting out of the deal, to leave those documents classified? Something better than the truth?
If not, then this is a BAD DEAL and there is NOTHING TO NEGOTIATE.
The key is holding your cards
Then they don’t know what he has
Declassify them already.
So, what country are you in then? Certainly not the U.S.
“Two can play this game”
But only the Democrats want to play that game.
Why can’t the average American see this devastating information?
Maybe the president should start using “tick tock” on ‘em. That would really scare them.
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