Posted on 05/19/2017 4:47:00 AM PDT by monkapotamus
President Trump, 24 hours from his self-imposed deadline for picking a new F.B.I. director, told reporters on Thursday that he was “very close” to choosing a successor to James B. Comey, and he named Joseph I. Lieberman, the former Democratic senator and vice-presidential nominee, as a finalist.
But members of Mr. Trump’s staff — alarmed by his rapid embrace of Mr. Lieberman, a charming 75-year-old political operator with no federal law enforcement experience — have quietly urged him to take more time to make such a critical hire. By late Thursday, the president appeared increasingly likely to leave Friday for a nine-day foreign trip without picking a new director, according to three senior administration officials speaking on the condition of anonymity...
Others on Mr. Trump’s list are former Gov. Frank Keating of Oklahoma and former Representative Mike Rogers of Michigan, both Republicans. Mr. Rogers, a former F.B.I. agent, was endorsed by the agents’ association.
Also interviewed were two federal judges, Michael J. Garcia of the New York State Court of Appeals and Henry E. Hudson of Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.....
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Red Herring. Distraction to get MSM to focus on it. Trump isn’t that dumb.
Just because we were away from Freep a while doesn’t mean we shed our brain cells. Come on, we’re wiser, smarter, savvier than this.
Ivanka likes him.
Keating, OTOH, was governor of Oklahoma at the time of the OKC bombing... Thanks but no thanks.
I cannot believe this!
Lieberman is a terrible choice. He is a stooge for leftists.
Would rather have Bernie.
He actually has SOME beliefs.
What kind of advice is Trump getting and from whom??
Good God....Stanley McChrystal?
They did a profile on him a year or two ago on “CBS Sunday Morning.”
The guy is a rabid gun-grabber; very hostile to the Second Amendment. Not that Lieberman is any better.
No thank-you to the both of them.
Lieberman might get the Chuck Schumer Seal of Approval, whereas someone like Rogers would raise the Democrats’ decibel level even higher. There can’t be any other reason for Trump to seriously consider him.
NO, NO and HELL NO! he has to stick his finger in the wind to know how to turn even. SENILE as MCNASTY. Hasn’t a objective bone in his Commie body.
Must be fake news.
“and he named Joseph I. Lieberman, the former Democratic senator and vice-presidential nominee, as a finalist.”
Wow, I’ll bet Hillary is shaking in her boots. No Lieberman! He’s probably a nice guy and has better character then most Democrats but he hobnobs with the DC establishment including the Clintons and will never go after corruption. This isn’t draining the swamp. Praying President Trump takes a pass.
Once a rat, always a rat.
Joe may talk up his “conservative” cred, but when push comes to shove, he’ll always go back to his roots. Connecticut Democrats don’t change their stripes.
You may have put your finger on the crux of the matter.
I don’t have a name for FBI Director. I think HE should be tough, large in stature, Law enforcement background, Black or White but True American, Conservative, Military high rank( like Tony Shaffer).... That’s it ...Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer.
Lieberman is a political wuss. He does not deserve this FBI directorship. I was a Connecticut resident during the Clarence Thomas hearings and I will never forgive or forget his weaselly actions. Lieberman conveniently left the room before his vote on Thomas and returned to vote when the outcome had already been determined.
I repeat: Lieberman is a weakling; we need a strong and courageous head of the FBI. It is too bad that Trey Gowdy is not interested, although he may have been too politically tainted.
That’s good, but it has to be Ray Kelly.
I was thinking Ray Kelly also
Lieberman has always been a limpy lefty.
Another cave?
Unbelievable that with the Republicans in control of the government the dems still get what they want.
NO JOE!
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