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Messing with the FBI? Trump doesn’t know history [direct threat]
Washington Post ^ | 2/1/18 | Eugene Robinson

Posted on 02/01/2018 7:13:59 PM PST by markomalley

Presidents don’t win fights with the FBI. Donald Trump apparently wants to learn this lesson the hard way.

Most presidents have had the sense not to bully the FBI by defaming its leaders and — ridiculously — painting its agents as leftist political hacks. Most members of Congress have also understood how unwise it would be to pull such stunts. But Trump and his hapless henchmen on Capitol Hill, led by Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), have chosen the wrong enemy. History strongly suggests they will be sorry.

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Trump and his minions seem to think they can out-leak the FBI. Obviously they haven’t been paying attention.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: coup; direwarnings; eugenerobinson; fbi; trump; washpo
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To: markomalley

So the conspiracy theorists weren’t paranoid afterall. Thanks for confirming the utter corruption of this institution. Disbande the FBI!!


61 posted on 02/01/2018 7:31:19 PM PST by wiseprince
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To: bigbob
Maybe they can all explain how they became millionaires on the six figure salary's we pay them?

Yeah JK, that'll never happen.

62 posted on 02/01/2018 7:31:25 PM PST by Bullish (Whatever it takes to MAGA)
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To: aimhigh

Waco Waco Waco Waco. The FIB was criminal there and now!!!


63 posted on 02/01/2018 7:31:56 PM PST by raiderboy ( "...if we have to close down our government, weÂ’re building that wall" DJT)
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To: markomalley
The far-right echo chamber resounds with wailing and braying about something called the “deep state” — a purported fifth column of entrenched federal bureaucrats whose only goal in life, apparently, is to deny America the greatness that Dear Leader Trump has come to bestow. It is unclear who is supposed to be directing this vast conspiracy. Could it be Dr. Evil? Supreme Leader Snoke? Hillary Clinton? This whole paranoid fantasy, as any sane person realizes, is utter rubbish.

The Deep State paid shill has to earn his kick back pay. He also needs to return a few favors. They probably also have "Something" on him.

64 posted on 02/01/2018 7:32:23 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Jim Robinson

I’d surely be an early casualty, but if it’s comin’ I wanna be around to see it.


65 posted on 02/01/2018 7:32:35 PM PST by tomkat (pro aris et focis)
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To: markomalley

That’s what it reads like to me.


66 posted on 02/01/2018 7:32:54 PM PST by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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To: silverleaf

Harry Truman was close friends with Pendergrast. Close enough he went to his funeral.


67 posted on 02/01/2018 7:32:57 PM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: markomalley

Atlanta Olympics, 1996:

An overweight security guard Richard Jewell finds a bomb in a crowded Atlanta park, an act of terror. He alerts the cops, but the bomb goes off and a desperate Bill Clinton facing a reelection bid ORDERS the FBI to simplify things by making Richard Jewell the perp.

Knowing Richard Jewell revers “real cops” the FBI brings him in for questioning, finally pretending to relent and accept his story of innocence. They then flattered him and lowered his guard by chatting him up in grand style like A Law Enforcement Colleague.

The FBI then claimed to Jewell that they were making a Training Videotape simulation in which a perp under questioning breaks down and confresses to a bombing, “Ah shucks, our actor crapped out, got sick, say Richard, would ya help us FBI guys out..?”

A micrometer away from consenting to help them with their “training video”, Jewell suddenly realizes if he cooperated with “his friends”, they might turn around use the tape against him in the world famous bombing that just transpired.

He calls his ex-roomate, a lawyer, who admonishes Jewell that he’s in very grave danger. He leaves the FBI questioning and AVOIDS LIFE IN PRISON BY A WHISKER.

YOUR FBI IS **FINE** ACTING AS AN INSTRUMENT OF POLITICAL TERROR.

It started at least 20 years ago.

68 posted on 02/01/2018 7:33:16 PM PST by gaijin
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To: markomalley

Wow. Just wow.

My wow is a bookmark.

I’m going to come back with an actual comment on this unbelievable screed later.


69 posted on 02/01/2018 7:33:19 PM PST by samtheman (Liberalism is a mental disease.)
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To: markomalley

All a President really has to do to drain the swamp is break the auto-pen.


70 posted on 02/01/2018 7:33:42 PM PST by fruser1
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To: elhombrelibre

Do you have one of those Pioneer of the Revolution bandanas from when you were little?


71 posted on 02/01/2018 7:33:50 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

Yup. Doubt they understand the scale of the blowback would be.


72 posted on 02/01/2018 7:34:34 PM PST by piytar (http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/bill-whittle-number-one-bullet)
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To: markomalley

A not-so-veiled threat from...wait, who? Eugene Robinson? Oh, please. I have some history for him: if it comes to it, the inciters will get the same thing the perpetrators do. It won’t be pretty for either.


73 posted on 02/01/2018 7:34:54 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: markomalley

Eugene Robinson, lackey of the Coomies. Lock him up with the rest of ‘em. McCarthy was RIGHT.


74 posted on 02/01/2018 7:34:59 PM PST by Kalamata (Meat hooks for Tyrants)
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To: gaijin

Thank you for reminding me how much I genuinely hate Lon Horiuchi.


75 posted on 02/01/2018 7:35:20 PM PST by Ciaphas Cain (Liberalism, as with all else evil, can never create. It can only corrupt.)
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To: markomalley

Bezos must be worried. They have trotted out the dumbest most Racist black guy they could find twice this week.


76 posted on 02/01/2018 7:35:33 PM PST by DAC21
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To: JPJones

FBI needs to put the Washington POST under surveillance.. THEY are part of the swamp, and there resides some of the monsters.


77 posted on 02/01/2018 7:36:16 PM PST by rovenstinez
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To: markomalley

The Post has it backward.

Trump is not messing with the FBI. The FBI/DOJ conspirators are messing with Trump.

And, apparently they don’t know he is a warrior.


78 posted on 02/01/2018 7:36:29 PM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said theoal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: wiseprince
So the conspiracy theorists weren’t paranoid afterall.

That's a great point! He's saying that if the president pushes the outrageous notion that the FBI would attempt to destroy a president, then the FBI will attempt to destroy the president.

79 posted on 02/01/2018 7:37:47 PM PST by kevao (Biblical Jesus: Give your money to the poor. Socialist Jesus: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: DoughtyOne

I’ll carpool with you to DC.

This is clearly a threat. THEY hope to intimidate him, but our REAL president can’t be intimidated.


80 posted on 02/01/2018 7:38:02 PM PST by Gator113 ( ~~Trump 2020~~)
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