TRUMP OPENS DOOR TO DECLASSIFYING RUSSIA DOCS, AND HIS ACTING ATTORNEY GENERAL COULD BE ON BOARD

Daily Caller ^ | 11/7/2018 | chuck ross

[bitt]

President Trump is “very seriously” considering whether to declassify a slew of FBI and Justice Department records related to the Russia investigation, he said Wednesday. That controversial proposal, which Trump has toyed with for months, may have a backer in Matthew Whitaker, the acting attorney general.

“Declassification, we’re looking at very seriously,” Trump told reporters in a press conference on Wednesday, just before Attorney General Jeff Sessions was forced to resign.

Whitaker, who served as Sessions’ chief of staff, will take over as acting attorney general. In that role, he will oversee the special counsel’s investigation into Trump associates’ links to Russia. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had directed the investigation because Sessions recused himself due to contacts he had with Russians while working on the Trump campaign.

[LeeClementineKenny]

I wouldn't doubt if it exposes a lot of the republican establishment along with democrats. Maybe they knew it was coming, and that's why so many retired suddenly.

[monkeyshine]

Papadopoulis was set up. They had one group of operatives feeding him falsehoods, and then sent another group of operatives at him to try to solicit those falsehoods and report on his statements to the FBI and others. He denies ever saying anything about Russian emails/cooperation with Trump to the Australian ambassador to the UK, but that ambassador told the FBI several things.

Papadopoulis was also given $10,000 in cash. Fortunately for him he caught wind of the set-up, and gave that cash to attorneys he hired in Europe. I believe they fully expected to catch him on arrival from the UK/Rome with the cash in order to add charges (not declaring $10,000 or more) and to make him look dirty, to get prosecutorial leverage over him and induce him to say things that could be used against Trump. In fact they did arrest him when he landed but good for him he didn’t have the cash.

I believe they did this not only with Papadopoulis but with Carter Page and others, including that whole Trump tower meeting with DJTjr. It was a set up, trying to ensnare whomever they could partly as an excuse for the wiretap warrants, and partly to recruit informants, and partly as “insurance policy” to use at least in part for the Mueller investigation. For all we know they might have tried to trap DJTjr as blackmail “do this or we’ll indict your son on charges” type stuff.

A full, transparent investigation is necessary for the sanctity of the Republic, for justice to be served, and for political advantage - and then some!

[hinckley buzzard]

I believe Trump has been under more or less continuous audit, as he says. Corporations often are. If there was anything irregular or illegal, a weaponized IRS would have found it and leaked it by now. If not, then it really is nobody else’s business. As for other presidents, nothing significant or consequential has ever been revealed when their returns were made public. The whole “issue” is a phoney one, granted that both parties have tried to use it from time to time.

[central_va]

[pookie18]

Thanks, FrankR!

[Col Frank Slade]

I think Rosenstein is gone by this weekend...

[Pollard]

I’m so tired of the national security argument...

Especially after finding out all the redactions were to save face and not for nat sec issue

[gaijin]

Jeff Sessions:

Polite, sweet, principled, ineffective, complacent, doddering old fool who passively looked on as our Republic swirled down the drain.

WORST HIRE IN US HISTORY..?

[Buckeye McFrog]

I think Trump has long wanted to do this but he did not want to hurt Republicans down ballot in this midterm.

Now that it’s over the shackles are off.

[MortMan]

He’s a threatened, but not yet cornered, warrior to my mind.

[wardaddy]

This was in my sketchy memory vault from September

https://dailycaller.com/2018/09/23/british-trump-declassify-russia/

[Mouton]

I think yesterday was the beginning of trump taking the gloves off. He pointedly took on the virulent press after giving them an opportunity to reduce their rhetoric by talking about being accommodating to a new congressional leadership. (of course they were unmoved as they already had an accommodating leadership in Mr Rat Face Speaker). Next the rhetoric of the incoming bunch lite the fuse after hearing his offers. So, now we go to the mattresses.

[Mouton]

Trump has been under more or less continuous audit, as he says. Corporations often are.

That is correct. Some have “live in” teams of auditors present at all times. Whether that was the case here, don’t know. That would just be the IRS btw, does not include state and local auditors. NY has some of the most aggressive.

[Karliner]

This will be sweet, Gloves are off after the brutal display in the WH press room, the midterms and Sessions is gone. (C) documents and all the rest of those little emails might see the light of day?

Weeping, fear, gnashing of teeth and in the news, videos of probably cognitive dissonance as evidenced by?

[taxcontrol]

Do it before the dems get the gavel

[HollyB]

Trump is no wounded animal. He is a skilled chess player.

[HollyB]

“Shouldn’t we want to know if our president is beholden to Russia in a compromising way?”

Wow. Do you believe he is beholden to Russia?

I think we need to look at the prior administrations connection to Russia first and foremost. Has Trump broken any laws by not releasing his taxes?
Your post sounds like you’ve been watching MSNBC too long.

[sdthree]

exactly! He already ordered the release

What is different this time?

[enumerated]

I am glad if a new AG and an increased Senate majority will put the President in a better political position to finally bring the Mueller witch hunt to an end.

But even as recently as yesterday’s presser, the President reiterated his desire to stay out of it in order to remain “transparent”. So, after enduring it for these many months, would the White House really squander all that good will by forcing an end to it now, amid signs it is winding down anyway?

I think even in a post-Sessions administration, there still may be some dissapointed Trump supporters, if they really expect Trump to “lock her up”, and prosecute other Obama minions for SpyGate.

I could be wrong, but I think Trump will be 100% focused on MAGA, not the crimes of the past administration. Yes, in order to MAGA, he will need to drain the swamp, and there may be some overlap between swamp-draining and prosecuting Spygate - but Trump is more about unification and positive change for the future, and less about retribution for past crimes - especially when that retribution would create martyrs and very likely lead to further political divisions.

We shall see.

[Will88]

I think he realizes release of these and more documents, unredacted, could upend the lives of people only peripherally connected to the actual corruption.

I think he's getting enormous pressure from the intelligence agencies and the FBI to not release. And he mentioned objections from a couple of key allies when he backed away from the release a few weeks ago.

And recall he intended to release all the 50+ year old JFK assassination documents, but was talked out of it by some of the intelligence agencies.

It's time for the people's right to know what their government has been up to to put ahead of bureaucratic ass covering.