Posted on 05/11/2019 9:40:23 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
On Friday, the former general counsel of the FBI, Jim Baker, decided to speak out. Frustrated by the burgeoning Republican narrative about how the Russia investigation might have been launched under false pretenses and with nefarious motives, the previously quiet top FBI aide stepped onto the public stage.
“There was no attempted ‘coup,’” Baker said at the Brookings Institution. “There was no way in hell that I was going to allow some coup or coup attempt to take place on my watch.”
He added that he stepped forward because he “just became sick of all the B.S. that is said about the origins of the investigation.” Baker, who left the FBI in 2017, said he wanted to “reassure the American people that it was done for lawful, legitimate reasons.”
Whatever legitimate questions might be asked about the process for obtaining Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants or the Justice Department’s initial inquiries in the Russia probe, it’s worth noting just how long this “coup” narrative took to build on the political right — and how much GOP leaders initially eschewed it.
Then-House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) first injected this into the public bloodstream via the so-called “Nunes memo,” which raised questions about the surveillance of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. At the time, the “coup”/“witch hunt” narrative (which generally hadn’t used those words but occasionally implied such an effort) was largely the provenance of President Trump and some of his most conspiratorial defenders.
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I can’t imagine the uproar had this been a Republican attempt to overthrow the election...
This is an amazing exercise to witness. What an f’d-up mess our press has become.
>>>“There was no attempted ‘coup,’” Baker said <<<
That may be technically accurate, but he needs to fully explain to a Grand Jury the predicate for his surveillance operation on the 2016 Trump campaign.
“How do you plead Mr.Simpson ?”
“Absolutely 100% not guilty.”
Yeah, just ignore the Strzok-Page texts, the phony FISA warrant(s), Nellie Ohr, the Steele Dossier, McCabe, the unmaskings, Halper, Mifsud, etc.
If you read the Baker transcript of his testimony before Congress, you will be amazed to read his assertion that it was plausible to believe that Putin ordered Trump to fire Comey. I wonder why more was not made of this.
Lawyer in charge of attempted coup, denies it was illegal??
There’s more evidence for the theory that the Deep State was working against Trump than there is for the theory that Trump was working for the Russians. Why are they afraid to investigate this? Can’t do any harm, can it? At any rate, it can’t do any more harm than falsely accusing the president of treason for three years.
First question, Jimbo, where is the evidence? None, then shut up.
Clear felonies were committed
What trump is doing is brilliant
Do nothing let them talk and talk
Then you have lots to work with when it goes to COURT
Furthermore right now politics doesn’t mean anything- next summer this time it will mean a lot. 2020.
Our great and wonderful president Donald J Trump plays the long game
The term “running dog press” was coined with the Compost in mind.
And "I Strzok myself in front of Liza-rd" said he would never let politics get in the way of professionalism...as he smirked at the cameras.
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