Posted on 05/16/2019 7:22:25 AM PDT by george76
That may have been how it appeared at the time, but it turns out that wasn't the case at all. It was later revealed that Christie sealed his fate with Trump in the 48 hours after the infamous "Access Hollywood" tape was released in October 2016.
Trump had called his senior campaign advisors to an emergency meeting at Trump Tower to chart their course over the coming days and salvage the campaign.
Christie was so convinced that Trump would lose the race that he wouldn't even answer his phone.
I'd almost be willing to bet $10,000 that these were the exact words out of Trump's mouth at that time:
"F#&% that fat bastard."
Misquoting you?
They are your words.
You like to be very exact with dates and phraseology - so please be exact.
Bannon has said it was pressure from Kushner that got Christie booted.
Neither have I.
That's the problem -- it wasn't an "immediate consequence."
Mueller wasn't appointed until AFTER Comey was fired in May 2017 ... and AFTER Trump did that stupid NBC interview with Lester Holt and made the outlandish claim that he fired Comey over the Russia investigation.
I'm sure he did it unwittingly, but Trump hung Rosenstein out to dry on that one because Rosenstein was the one who had recommended Comey's termination in the first place.
You're missing about three months of sensationalized reporting about 'rising tension' and 'serious questions' about Trump and his administration that led to Mueller getting appointed Special Counsel by Rosenstein.
This was a well orchestrated plot to remove a sitting President in which Sessions played a small but pivotal role...as traitor.
Bannon has said a lot of things. After the series of events I described there wasn’t a chance in hell that Christie was going to be a major player in the Trump administration.
I will forgive you, but please don't play me for a fool.
:-)
It’s really old news. Recycled ‘boom’.
I don’t disagree with you, but see Post #45 for some very important items that played a role in this whole story.
Are you saying the only reason Mueller was appointed was because Rosenstein felt publicly embarrassed that Trump had linked, even vaguely, the firing of Comey with the nebulous rumors of "Russian collusion?"
I heard someone on Fox say there were 2 who were anti Trump, and were in his inner circle when he was inaugerated. 2 who were evidently plants .... to do harm.
Sho were the 2?
How good is your source on that?
Is it from Javanka’s publicists?
It had nothing to do with embarrassment and everything to do with legal protocols. Rosenstein had to distance himself from the matter once Comey was fired and Trump openly stated -- not vaguely, but OPENLY -- that the Russia investigation was one of the factors in Comey's termination.
I love Trump, but he was an abject moron for even sitting for that stupid interview in the first place. You don't run around mocking the mainstream media as "fake news" for months, then sit down and grant an exclusive interview like that with one of the worst media outlets of the bunch.
Steve Bannon: 'Access Hollywood' tape cost Chris Christie a Cabinet post
But Bannon said he told Christie, "The plane leaves at 11 o'clock in the morning. If you're on the plane, you're on the team. Didn't make the plane."
I disliked Wray from his confirmation hearing and I said so here.
But, now I am furious that he is still the Director.
WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO GET RID OF HIM. DO WE THINK HE IS NOT DOING THE SAME THING TO OTHER PAPERS REQUESTED AS WE READ THESE POSTS.
HE IS PROBABLY CLASSIFYING IMPORTANT PAPERS RIGHT NOW!
I wonder if these are the documents they were referring to?
This is the typed memo with the redaction:
This is the handwritten note below (By Kovalek at State) that the above redacted memo was transcribed from from, and there is widespread and probably accurate speculation (Barr knows what is under that redaction, Nunes knows what is under that redaction, and President Trump does too. It is almost certainly the statement "THERE IS NO RECORD IN STATE DEPARTMENT SYSTEMS THAT COHEN WENT TO PRAGUE."
This is old news, right? Cohen said he never went to Prague. His scummy lawyer Lanny Davis said he never went to Prague, and even Muller in his report said there was no evidence. Yet, the parts above and below the "Cohen-Prague" note are referenced in both handwritten and typed, "Cohen-Prague" is not seen, but...there is a redacted area there for "INA" (Immigration and Naturalization Act reasons). Kovalek, as she typed her notes, was checking the State Department systems and filling in arrival and departure dates on people mentioned, except for Cohen...:)
And THEN...when the FBI redacted the typed memo...they STUPIDLY forgot to redact the handwritten notes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! Why is this important?
Kovalek at State met with Christopher Steele 10 days before the FISA warrant submission on 10/21/2016 which was approved on the basis of the Dossier, whose key point was that Cohen went to Prague to negotiate on behalf of Trump for the Hillary emails.
IT IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE THIS IS LONG BEFORE COHEN'S SUPPOSED"TRIP" WAS LEAKED TO THE MEDIA WHICH HE SUBSEQUENTLY DENIED...
AND...
The typewritten transcript of notes from the meeting (the first graphic above!) was sent to the FBI eight days before the 10/21/2016 FISA submission AND WAS IMMEDIATELY RELAYED TO...PETER STRZOK.
This means the FBI KNEW EIGHT DAYS BEFORE SUBMITTING THE FISA APPLICATION that the FISA was fraudulent (based on a nonsensical "Dossier").
Yet, they all signed their John Hancock to it, raised their hands, and swore it was all true, knowing it wasn't.
THAT'S why it is important!
Thank you for that very informative post.
“I never got a good vibe from Wray.”
I would be pretty sure that Barr knows Wray.
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