Posted on 07/08/2023 8:31:14 AM PDT by thegagline
John F. Kelly, who served as former President Donald J. Trump’s second White House chief of staff, said in a sworn statement that Mr. Trump had discussed having the Internal Revenue Service and other federal agencies investigate two F.B.I. officials involved in the investigation into his campaign’s ties to Russia.
Mr. Kelly said that his recollection of Mr. Trump’s comments to him was based on notes that he had taken at the time in 2018. Mr. Kelly provided copies of his notes to lawyers for one of the F.B.I. officials, who made the sworn statement public in a court filing.
“President Trump questioned whether investigations by the Internal Revenue Service or other federal agencies should be undertaken into Mr. Strzok and/or Ms. Page,” Mr. Kelly said in the statement. “I do not know of President Trump ordering such an investigation. It appeared, however, that he wanted to see Mr. Strzok and Ms. Page investigated.”
Mr. Kelly’s assertions were disclosed on Thursday in a statement that was filed in connection with lawsuits brought by Peter Strzok, who was the lead agent in the F.B.I.’s Russia investigation, and Lisa Page, a former lawyer in the bureau, against the Justice Department for violating their privacy rights when the Trump administration made public text messages between them.
The disclosures from Mr. Kelly, made under penalty of perjury, demonstrate the extent of Mr. Trump’s interest in harnessing the law enforcement and investigative powers of the federal government to target his perceived enemies. In the aftermath of Richard M. Nixon’s presidency, Congress made it illegal for a president to “directly or indirectly” order an I.R.S. investigation or audit.
The New York Times reported last July that two of Mr. Trump’s greatest perceived enemies — James B. Comey, whom he fired as F.B.I. director, and Mr. Comey’s deputy, Andrew G. McCabe — were the subject of the same type of highly unusual and invasive I.R.S. audit.
It’s time to stop playing nice. The left has been doing evil things like this for decades. Remember Lois Lerner?
OH! Well it’s also in the Daily Mail and Seattle Times? Well by cracky THAT nails it!
That is a signature more of the spook world and they even did it in the pissgate case. Release it to several papers at once. Make it seem like it’s everywhere. Hell, that is literally what they did with the “dossier”.
Get serious and don’t be so gullible.
All true, DR! Trump was trying to clean the mess on both sides of the aisle and McConnell? Making sure his wife’s chi-com enslaved Taiwan based huge family business was not stepped on, and the chi-coms leveraging this in many ways with shakedowns and concessions from the USA.
There is no doubt LBJ ran IRS digs on politicals, his phone calls with J Edgar Hoover are something to listen to (you tube) as well as with Sen. Richard Russell of GA (who sponsored LBJ into the Senate, to his later stated great regret). Kelly is another political Marine general, quite different from Mattis but many similarities. What a cesspool.
Chi-Coms all the while paying all of the JoeBama family to continue the grift, maintaining the Ukraine kickback grift (including Mitch and Romney and Ryan along with them— all of them lining their pockets and full of it. Romney especially- he was never going to win presidency not with ryan or anyone else).
“.. Trump questioned whether investigations by the Internal Revenue Service or other federal agencies should be undertaken ..”
“..questioned whether..” is a far cry from “ordering.”
Yes it is-— side friends to the revolutionary communist party (run by an Armenian/american said to be) revcom.org
organizer of nearly all fringe protests in collab. with the dnc....BLM...AntiFA (pretending to be not fascists, while being troops for the Communists. Paid street mercs).
TRUMP had a DEEP RESPECT for MILITARY LEADERS......BIG MISTAKE!!
No fkg shi1t, I mean when a President sees the brazen departure of the ethical
performance of ANY Department individual under the Executive Branch of course he is going to question that.
AND he most certainly SHOULD.
This is just simple Executive Management conversations but of course any minor communication regarding Trump (and really all of the GOP) is justified grounds for execution by firing squad.
Just F the Democrats, they no longer function as members of our Country.
I’d like to see those to ass hats investigated as well. So what’s wrong with that?
Scraping the bottom of the barrel are we now? Desperation is oozing from your pores.
>> Congress made it illegal for a president to “directly or indirectly” order an I.R.S. investigation or audit.
Congress did not intend for this to apply to Donald Trump.
I don’t believe one word of this story.
Who didn’t? He had some idea what was done using the resources of the federal government to him, his campaign and his administration. They absolutely should have been investigated for evidence of collusion, corruption and payoffs. Kelly said Trump, with no political experience, asked about investigations but did not to his knowledge order specific investigations. I see no problem with this, in context.
No link in the article to a transcript of Kelly’s sworn testimony in the original article...what else did Kelly say that they don’t want you to know about?
Yes. Maybe Trump asked because these creatures were doing things they shouldn’t have been doing. I don’t see the problem.
Anyone who knows anything about beltway politics and the Pentagon understands that some of the biggest whores in history wear stars.
Play the game and you can end your nice stay on General’s row at Ft. Belvoir with 7 figures plus worth of low-show board positions and think tanks or go for the real money with the big boys.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caliburn_International
Interesting wiki page for his current employer (he is a “board member”). Contracts with state department and defense department...... under investigation for bribing Iraqi officials and the board is exclusively retired flag officers continuing their “public service”.
Allegedly an IPO with 100 million shares. I bet that will be a nice haul.
For those who want to know why our country is going broke so fast and how the DC metroplex is growing wealth so fast should study and learn how the game is played. The best analogy might be the Hunger Games. They don’t sacrifice our kids in “games” though..... they just send them to die on foreign soil and claim it is America’s interests.
Well, for a Democrat it is highly unusual. Conservatives? Not so much...
Give me names of entities who are not Deep State assholes. When this Deep State Pentagon General was announced the choice was applauded.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-idUSKBN1AF0S7
Yes it was democrat owned
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