Posted on 07/09/2025 2:23:48 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
It is unclear whether the moves will lead to charges, but they suggest that President Trump’s appointees intend to follow through on his campaign to exact retribution against his perceived enemies.
The Trump administration appears to be targeting officials who oversaw the investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign’s connections to Russia, examining the actions of the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey and the former C.I.A. director John O. Brennan, according to people familiar with the situation.
John Ratcliffe, the C.I.A. director and a harsh critic of his Democratic-appointed predecessors, has made a criminal referral of Mr. Brennan to the F.B.I., accusing him of lying to Congress, officials said. The bureau is also scrutinizing Mr. Comey for his role in the Russia investigation, other officials said, although the exact basis for an inquiry remains unclear.
Even if it is unclear whether the moves will lead to charges, they are among the most significant indications that President Trump’s appointees intend to follow through on his campaign to exact retribution against his perceived enemies. That includes people leading the investigation into what he has repeatedly denounced as the “Russia hoax” nine years ago and officials involved in two failed federal prosecutions of Mr. Trump during the Biden years.
This all comes at a precarious moment for the appointed leadership of federal law enforcement agencies. Since Monday, Trump supporters on the far right have lashed out at Attorney General Pam Bondi and F.B.I. brass for closing the investigation into the death of the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. Those same allies have called for aggressive investigations of Trump investigators.
C.I.A. and F.B.I. officials declined to comment. A Justice Department spokeswoman wrote in a statement that it did not comment on “ongoing investigations.”
White House officials, who have often flouted safeguards intended to...
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No matter how much you hate these people, you cannot hate them enough.
“to exact retribution against his perceived enemies”
A more reasoned statement would be “to hold people accountable for illegal actions.”
No matter how much you hate these people, you cannot hate them enough.
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Yes!!!!!
Obama to Medvedev: Tell Putin after my re-election I can be more flexible to him.
Trump to Putin: If you go into Ukraine, I’m going to bomb the sh*t out of Moscow.
Dim media: Trump's the Russian puppet!!!!
Ping me when the cuffs come out.
I think the Times got it backwards.
Instead of “Administration Takes Steps to Target 2 Officials Who Investigated Trump”.
They meant to write, “Administration Takes Steps to investigate 2 Officials Who Targeted Trump”.
You beat me to it.
Perhaps these scum should take te easy way out and slit their own throats.
Goebbels would be proud of that headline. And the article too for that matter.
Weak. Not because your commment is idiotic — although it is, in fact, idiotic.
You are weak because you were only #5 in the thread with a variation of “wake me when” drivel.
Freepers! We can finally become a meme! The “wake me when” meme
Terrible, feeble effort, Ben. Do better.
I know what you’re saying. I been here for over 20 years and the responses to just about any posts is about the same. All airline post are almost always followed by “That’s why I don’t fly anymore.”. Movie post are “I don’t go to movies anymore.”
The irony of Trump attacked as being “dictatorial” as the Left and the Biden administration
<><>dragged Trump through five criminal and civil courtrooms,
<><>fined him over $400 million,
<><>coordinated those legal harassments,
<><>indicted him for 93 felonies.
<><>as they tried to destroy his candidacy, his person,
<><>they tried to bankrupt him, and to jail him.
<><>never before had 25 states tried to take Trump off the ballot.
<><>Nobody had ever impeached a president twice.
<><>Nobody had ever tried a president, unconstitutionally,
<><>he was a private citizen, he had already left office.
<><>No presidential candidate was the subject of two assassination attempts.
<><>No ex-president ever had his home raided by the FBI.
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