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Messing with the FBI? Trump doesn’t know history [direct threat]
Washington Post ^ | 2/1/18 | Eugene Robinson

Posted on 02/01/2018 7:13:59 PM PST by markomalley

Presidents don’t win fights with the FBI. Donald Trump apparently wants to learn this lesson the hard way.

Most presidents have had the sense not to bully the FBI by defaming its leaders and — ridiculously — painting its agents as leftist political hacks. Most members of Congress have also understood how unwise it would be to pull such stunts. But Trump and his hapless henchmen on Capitol Hill, led by Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), have chosen the wrong enemy. History strongly suggests they will be sorry.

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Trump and his minions seem to think they can out-leak the FBI. Obviously they haven’t been paying attention.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: coup; direwarnings; eugenerobinson; fbi; trump; washpo
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To: markomalley

Treason, pure and simple.


41 posted on 02/01/2018 7:26:31 PM PST by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Western Civilization- whisper the words, and it will disappear. So let us talk now about rebirth)
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To: markomalley

Schumer said the same thing, the same warning, a year ago. This is incredible. There was a time when the Dems were fighting the intel community. What the hell would Frank Church say when the most prominent Senate Dem and a leading Left wing Black journalist positively boast about the power of the intel community. Couple that with the McCarthy style Russia theme that the Left decried 50 years ago and we are living in an alternate universe.


42 posted on 02/01/2018 7:26:55 PM PST by xkaydet65
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To: markomalley

Guess that trip to Dallas got cancelled...


43 posted on 02/01/2018 7:27:19 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.cwom/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: markomalley


44 posted on 02/01/2018 7:27:26 PM PST by gaijin
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To: markomalley

Doesn’t know history?

What the H-— Does the Washington ComPost know?

That they must always lie?


45 posted on 02/01/2018 7:27:40 PM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

The FBI hot shots didn’t to so well in a gunfight down in Miami I hear.....


46 posted on 02/01/2018 7:28:07 PM PST by TTFlyer
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To: markomalley

Sean Hannity has a direct link to Julian Assange, a well known American patriot. Fortunately, Assange and Russia can help Trump adviser Hannity to crush the wicked CIA, FBI, DoJ, and DoD. The Deep State must be destroyed. Assange/Hannity operatives understand that the only way to save conservatism is to destroy its most conservative organizations. Once Assange/Hannity guidance is available, drilled and docile members selected as the replacement members of the new organizations will simply be required to pledge allegiance to Trump instead of the antiquated idea or the constitution.


47 posted on 02/01/2018 7:28:27 PM PST by elhombrelibre (Cogito ergo sum a conservative pro-American.)
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To: markomalley

Sean Hannity has a direct link to Julian Assange, a well known American patriot. Fortunately, Assange and Russia can help Trump adviser Hannity to crush the wicked CIA, FBI, DoJ, and DoD. The Deep State must be destroyed. Assange/Hannity operatives understand that the only way to save conservatism is to destroy its most conservative organizations. Once Assange/Hannity guidance is available, drilled and docile members selected as the replacement members of the new organizations will simply be required to pledge allegiance to Trump instead of the antiquated idea or the constitution.


48 posted on 02/01/2018 7:28:33 PM PST by elhombrelibre (Cogito ergo sum a conservative pro-American.)
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To: markomalley

The entire premise of this article should send chills up any normal American’s spine.

Other people have said roughly the same things about the CIA and NSA and other Intel agencies (”Don’t screw with them, they’ll ruin any politician who messes with them”).

Do we want to live in a country where certain executive branch Federal agencies are essentially out of control and do not acknowledge that the President is their boss and that Congress oversees them?

Would Mr. Robinson be singing the same tune if a cabal of generals and admirals in the Pentagon decided they could do their own thing regardless of what the President said?

I think not. Batten down the hatches.


49 posted on 02/01/2018 7:28:35 PM PST by SnuffaBolshevik
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To: SnuffaBolshevik

Howard Hunt played a key role in Watergate. After his actions came under extreme scrutiny, some of the roles he had previously had --like bribing witnesses-- soon befell his wife, Dorothy Hunt.

For this reason her activities, too, soon fell into the interest of the FBI.

In Dec of 1972 Dorothy Hunt was on UA Flight 553 to Chicago O'Hare:

The aircraft inexplicably crashed into 5 houses below, killing 2 on the ground and 43 of the 61 passengers aboard, including Hunt, who the FBI determined had been carrying a large amount of cash when the sudden and inexplicable crash transpired.

Numerous observers noted that the FBI response time for this crash was lightning fast --they entered the control tower and isolated the audio tapes even before the NTSB had arrived.

They also arrived on the crash scene before the NTSB and were first to locate the black boxes.

Does the President run the country, or does the FBI...?

Cuz I think it might be the FBI; the USA might actually be the **FBI's** country, and we simply LIVE in it.


50 posted on 02/01/2018 7:28:54 PM PST by gaijin
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To: markomalley

Typical leftist. Scratch the surface and you’ll find a full blown cheerleader for the police state.


51 posted on 02/01/2018 7:28:54 PM PST by Sirius Lee (In God We Trust, In Trump We MAGA)
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To: TTFlyer

That’s exactly who and what Robinson is.


52 posted on 02/01/2018 7:29:09 PM PST by Noumenon (It isn't racist if it's true, is it?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Chuck U.Schumer!


53 posted on 02/01/2018 7:29:36 PM PST by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: markomalley

Screw the FIB


54 posted on 02/01/2018 7:29:39 PM PST by raiderboy ( "...if we have to close down our government, weÂ’re building that wall" DJT)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If that starts, it will take a lot of rope.

And Trump will not be involved.

I trust We the People to see to it that this is applied to the “enemies within” and the external ones.


55 posted on 02/01/2018 7:29:46 PM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: markomalley

Let’s get it on.


56 posted on 02/01/2018 7:29:50 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: markomalley

“Most presidents have had the sense not to bully the FBI by defaming its leaders:
1. Donald Trump isn’t most presidents.
2. A defamation has to be false.
3. The president is the FBI’s “leader”.
4. Eugene Robinson is a butt wipe.
5. Why is the Compost sullying these sacred halls.


58 posted on 02/01/2018 7:30:36 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all white armed conservatives)
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To: markomalley

Eugene Robinson ? Who’s she?


59 posted on 02/01/2018 7:30:53 PM PST by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: markomalley

They’re scared. Cornered rats are dangerous. Hope Trump has kept his own security. No, I don’t even trust the Secret Service anymore.


60 posted on 02/01/2018 7:31:05 PM PST by piytar (http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/bill-whittle-number-one-bullet)
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