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Trump unleashes new political earthquake with FBI spy charge
CNN Fake News ^ | 21 May 2018 | Stephen Collinson

Posted on 05/21/2018 4:03:54 AM PDT by Magnatron

President Donald Trump has wrenched the United States back to the brink of a constitutional showdown after a weekend of rage culminated in his demand for an investigation into claims that the Obama administration inserted a spy in his 2016 campaign.

Trump's power play injected fresh intensity into his escalating political offensive against the Justice Department and renewed worries he is barging across long-held boundaries between the judicial system and the Oval Office.

It also raised potential scenarios that would threaten the integrity of US governance: first, that Trump could use his power to go after a political opponent and, second, that he means to derail or even end a criminal probe into his own conduct.

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Trump's fury peaked with a tweet that coincided with cresting coverage on conservative media of the unproven claim that an FBI confidential source in the Russia investigation could have been a spy sent by Obama administration officials to damage Trump.

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Shortly after his outburst, the Justice Department said its inspector general had been asked to assess whether there was any political impropriety in the use of the confidential source, as part of an existing probe into aspects of the Russia investigation.

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CNN legal analyst Paul Callan said that he found it "bizarre" that Rosenstein acted on an order to start an investigation via tweet.

"I mean, wouldn't the President call him in? Wouldn't there be a little bit of nuance in the order?" Callan asked, speaking with CNN's Ana Cabrera.

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


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To: Magnatron

Indeed. Talk about FAKE NEWS!


21 posted on 05/21/2018 4:27:34 AM PDT by Howie66 ("...Against All Enemies, Foreign and Democrat.....")
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To: Magnatron

“spy charge”???

I think it has been PROVEN Obama used the FBI and other government agencies to spy on and try to collude to keep an opposing political campaign from winning.

That is insurrection!


22 posted on 05/21/2018 4:28:54 AM PDT by CodeToad
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To: qaz123

See my post at #17...most of the players have (in my opinion) begun seriously lawyering up.

It is hard to shoot your mouth in the press when:

1.) You have to spend your mouth-time speaking to your lawyer.

2.) Your lawyer tells you to stop talking to the press or they won’t help you.


23 posted on 05/21/2018 4:30:51 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: Magnatron
President Donald Trump has wrenched the United States back to the brink of a constitutional showdow…

The cabal of plotters, insurrectionists, seditionists, coupists, and treasonists subverting a free election and overthrowing the President had nothing to do with fomenting a "constitutional crisis." Nope. It's all President Trump's doing.

24 posted on 05/21/2018 4:33:46 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: rlmorel

Funny how it’s Trump who is bringing the country to a constitutes crisis and nothing about Obama sending spies into the campaign of his political enemies


25 posted on 05/21/2018 4:34:21 AM PDT by wiseprince
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To: Magnatron

Remember how upset the Marxist Media was about Wathergate?


26 posted on 05/21/2018 4:36:01 AM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: laxcoach

The corruption of the bureau predates Hoover.


27 posted on 05/21/2018 4:36:14 AM PDT by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election!)
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To: Magnatron
To have the DOJ do an investigation is a pure farce. With all the Obama holdovers in the DOJ, expect a white wash. The IG has no subpoena power. Trump needs to unclassify all the records and appoint someone like Joe DeGenova as special prosecutor.
28 posted on 05/21/2018 4:38:12 AM PDT by kenmcg (tHE WHOLE)
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To: Magnatron

Why are you posting links to CNN? Every click to the website puts money in CNN’s pocket.


29 posted on 05/21/2018 4:39:13 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: Magnatron

“Wouldn’t there be a little bit of nuance in the order?” Callan asked, ”

How cute. They still think PDJT does nuance.

Good.

L


30 posted on 05/21/2018 4:41:29 AM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: Magnatron

Written in the up is down, black is white style.


31 posted on 05/21/2018 4:44:12 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Magnatron

Trump investigating political opponents? Are they serious!!?? Oval office encroaching on Justice system!!? For realz CNN


32 posted on 05/21/2018 4:44:28 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: Magnatron

33 posted on 05/21/2018 4:44:58 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Build The Wall !! Jail The Cankle !!)
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To: Magnatron
I'm gonna post this here, too, because I think it bears repeating...

The scariest thing about this whole charlie foxtrot: the huge number of people involved in this conspiracy who kept their pie holes shut.

If Trump hadn't come back swinging, everyone involved in the most serious threat to the republic in modern history would have gotten away with it because NOBODY BLABBED. Not the perps, not the press, the pols.

GOOD FRICKIN' GAD.

34 posted on 05/21/2018 4:45:54 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: kenmcg
Obama holdovers in the DOJ, expect a white wash. The IG has no subpoena power

President Trump said he would demand actions to be announced today. Rosenstein's little late Sunday night action is nothing.

Before the day is over, the DOJ will know just to WHOM they are reporting.

The phrase we used to use is - "Serves at the pleasure of the President" .

Mr. Trump needs a find a lot of pleasure on this issue. This little game by the elites has gone on far too long.

35 posted on 05/21/2018 4:47:29 AM PDT by Dustoff45 ( The secret to political success - Love God, Israel and the unborn child.)
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To: mewzilla

I agree they have all kept quiet - because they still think it is going to all work. John Kerry just back from his duties as SOS in Iran.


36 posted on 05/21/2018 4:52:19 AM PDT by healy61
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To: wiseprince

Brennan’s tweet calling on Ryan and McConnel to “stop” Trump sounded insane, and worse.


37 posted on 05/21/2018 4:57:48 AM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: wiseprince

I know, exactly.

My eyes simply cannot roll anymore when contemplating the media and their actions. I just can’t even criticize them anymore.

To me, criticizing them for what they have become over the last forty years is kind of like criticizing someone for breathing.

It is who they are, I can’t get them any lower in my esteem, and I feel like any criticisms I make is akin to teaching a pig to sing.


38 posted on 05/21/2018 4:57:51 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: healy61

Sure they thought it would work. And NOBODY involved or in the know had a problem with that. There wasn’t a single honorable person in the lot. NOT ONE.


39 posted on 05/21/2018 4:58:18 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: Magnatron

John Brennan has put tweet to history with his bullying B.S.: Brennan tweeted: “Senator McConnell & Speaker Ryan: If Mr. Trump continues along this disastrous path, you will bear major responsibility for the harm done to our democracy. You do a great disservice to our Nation & the Republican Party if you continue to enable Mr. Trump’s self-serving actions.”

Trump is over the target . . .


40 posted on 05/21/2018 5:01:29 AM PDT by jonrick46 (Trump continues to have all the right enemies.)
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