Posted on 05/10/2017 7:29:51 AM PDT by mandaladon
President Trumps sudden firing of FBI Director James B. Comey is bad for the country and will not be the end of the Trump-Russia affair, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) told a group of foreign diplomats and experts Tuesday night.
Although McCain did not directly accuse the White House of firing Comey to thwart the FBIs investigation into the Trump campaigns possible Russia ties, he did say that if that was the intention, it would fail.
This scandal is going to go on. Ive seen it before, McCain told a meeting of the Munich Security Conference core group. This is a centipede. I guarantee you there will be more shoes to drop, I can just guarantee it. Theres just too much information that we dont have that will be coming out.
He called Trumps actions against Comey unprecedented and said the position of FBI director has held special meaning in American public life dating back decades.
I remember the Saturday Night Massacre, McCain told the mostly European and American guests, referring to the 1973 incident when President Nixon fired the special prosecutor looking into the Watergate break-in, Archibald Cox.
Probably the most respected individual in all of the American government is probably the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, McCain said. Im very sorry that this has happened.
The event was off the record, but McCain gave me permission to place his comments on the record. He said that Trump had the legal basis to fire Comey but that his decision would have long-term negative consequences.
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John McCain sings Celine Dion, but with a new title: “My Jealous Rages Will Go On!!”
And this was the doufus that believed the fake Trump dossier about prostitutes and golden showers.
I think McCain had a deal with the Obama Whitehouse to stop tea party organizations from getting there tax exempt status. his biggest fear is that if that an investigation will reveal that him and a small cabal of republicans have been getting fed information by the Obama white house about there political enemies.
Hey, we tried to get rid of him.
I think Greg Gutfeld said, something like, "When Putin stepped into a voting booth and voted for Trump."
It was something like that; apologies to FR and Mr. Gutfeld if I completely got this wrong.
It was pretty darn funny, though. :)
This is the most ridiculous theory I have ever heard. Why in the world would Vladimir Putin prefer Trump to our former first lady? Not only is Clinton very susceptible to being blackmailed (i.e., "the List"), she is apparently sick and possibly has a drinking problem.
Trump is clear-headed and loves his country; that's why he ran, taking $1 in salary, giving up a life of comfort, trading it for perpetual headaches and stress.
May God Bless President Trump and his family.
“There will be more shoes to drop.”
Oh, I hope so!
Who was the aide who went to London to retrieve the dossier?
Is there a travel voucher?
“I think it is not that McCain is dumb; more that he is duplicitous....”
Of course and I agree with you but I wanted to hammer the stupidity of the statement motivated by cheap political backstabbing.
Yep.
So where was he when Clinton fired Sessions in '93? Out to lunch? (probably.....)
But I would argue that those of us who do not want to see the Trump momentum derailed adopt the most pragmatic response to both the predictable hand-wringing of anti-Trump Republicans & the crocodile tears of the forked tongue Democrats like Chuck Schumer.
The distracting hoopla, being orchestrated in major part by Trump haters in the mass media, is absolutely inconsistent with very crucial efforts to defang the North Korean Government, before something happens that could lead to literally millions of deaths, both in South Korea & Japan, as well as--God Help us!--from an attack on the American Grid.
What is significant in this juxtaposition of the hoopla over the Comey firing & the Korean situation is this. Donald Trump in one month has accomplished infinitely more in addressing the North Korean threat, than his three predecessors in 24 years! Please let that soak in. Consider the level of the Chinese involvement on our side as the evidence.
What variety of idiot or self-promoter wants to undermine Donald Trump's influence overseas, at this moment in history, by stirring up a fire-storm over the firing of an office--holder whose recent actions have been widely criticized in recent months on both sides of the political aisle? Let us not play the media game. Let us focus on what this half-cocked firestorm is undermining, and set these disgusting opportunists, with a highly destructive agenda, back on their heels.
William Flax
You give McCain way too much credit.
John McCain: An ISIS partner...
“Who was the aide who went to London to retrieve the dossier?”
I don’t know. I searched google news and, according to Forbes, the original source of the rumor is still not known.
At one point in time he was cozy with ISIS-affiliated groups. Does he still communicate with them? Communicating with known terrorists should allow NSA to open surveillance on McCain. Since it is normal practice for the office of the President to unmask and pore over the private communications of surveillance targets (ie Susan Rice unmasking), Trump should assign people to go through all McCain’s personal comms. Leak anything embarrassing to the press. This is what Obama did and we were lectured on how this was normal, proper and legal (I think McCain was one of the chorus)
Worth repeating...McCain's hands are dirty and there's plenty of room under the bus for a senile old RINO.
The IC Empire strikes back.
He doesn’t have any information connecting Trump to Russians, yet he’s going to get it out somehow.
This cretin is a democrat masquerading as a republican.
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