Posted on 05/10/2017 7:29:51 AM PDT by mandaladon
President Trump’s sudden firing of FBI Director James B. Comey is bad for the country and will not be the end of the Trump-Russia affair, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) told a group of foreign diplomats and experts Tuesday night.
Although McCain did not directly accuse the White House of firing Comey to thwart the FBI’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s possible Russia ties, he did say that if that was the intention, it would fail.
“This scandal is going to go on. I’ve seen it before,” McCain told a meeting of the Munich Security Conference core group. “This is a centipede. I guarantee you there will be more shoes to drop, I can just guarantee it. There’s just too much information that we don’t have that will be coming out.”
He called Trump’s actions against Comey “unprecedented” and said the position of FBI director has held special meaning in American public life dating back decades.
“I remember the Saturday Night Massacre,” McCain told the mostly European and American guests, referring to the 1973 incident when President Nixon fired the special prosecutor looking into the Watergate break-in, Archibald Cox.
“Probably the most respected individual in all of the American government is probably the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” McCain said. “I’m very sorry that this has happened.”
The event was off the record, but McCain gave me permission to place his comments on the record. He said that Trump had the legal basis to fire Comey but that his decision would have long-term negative consequences.
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“There’s just too much information that we don’t have that will be coming out.”
McCain is as dumb as a box of rocks.
Thanks, Arizona!
John McCain and Barack Obama need to get a room ‘cause Johnny ain’t over Barack and what he stood for.
“This is a centipede.”
Bol! The centipedes over at r/The_Donald will have something to say about that, for sure.
Once Trump and his Cabinet fire their first thousand Obama loyalists, the most of the others should resign on their own accord.
Excuse me Senator, What's the Trump-Russia affair ?
Oh, if only reporters would ask the questions that pop into OUR heads almost immediately.
McCain is a democrat.
I wish that he was still a POW in Vietnam.
I think it is not that McCain is dumb; more that he is duplicitous and endlessly in league with those who would hurt Trump and, really, all patriotic Americans. He is the enemy.
“This scandal is going to go on.
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McCain will make sure that it does.
Coming from one of the Keating Five, who also never met a War of Choice he didn’t like...
Don’t forget McCain was the one who delivered the prostitute pissing “dossier” to the FBI. There is no doubt he is out to get Trump.
Trump should ask to reopen the Keating 5 case (I am kidding). Lock this hero cheating liberal thug in prison now.
John McCain.... a derangement syndrome just waiting for a Trump.
I seriously wonder sometimes if McCain was re-programmed in Vietnam when he was a POW to be the REAL “Manchurian Candidate”.
I seriously wonder sometimes if McCain was re-programmed in Vietnam when he was a POW to be the REAL “Manchurian Candidate”.
I wish Juan would drop, and not just a shoe.
How the F do you get this guy to shut up? Even torture won’t work.
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