Posted on 11/29/2018 4:22:17 PM PST by ETL
President Donald Trump threatened to declassify “devastating” documents next year if House Democrats launch probes into his administration.
“If they want to play tough, I will do it,” he said during an Oval Office interview Wednesday with the New York Post.
"They will see how devastating those pages are."
Trump told the paper he would declassify FISA warrant applications and other confidential documents from Robert Mueller’s investigation, which he said would expose efforts by the FBI, the Justice Department and the Clinton campaign to set him up.
“If they go down the presidential harassment track, if they want to go and harass the president and the administration, I think that would be the best thing that would happen to me,” he said.
“I’m a counter-puncher and I will hit them so hard they’d never been hit like that.” Trump also told the tabloid he would wait to reveal such documents until they are absolutely needed, saying, “It’s much more powerful if I do it then.”
I am starting to think that whatever they say the immediate meaning will be very unclear or they don’t really say anything incriminating.
Makes you hope the Dems launch the probes doesn’t it?
C’mon, FReepers....
President Trump knows what he’s doing....
I sure hope Trump isn’t holding the FISA redacted documents as a “trump card” for the 2020 elections “October surprise”. We need that now to get the ball moving for justice for these criminals.
But not release them if they dont?
Release. Them.
There are many on this forum who will insist with a burning, bright passion that cannot even be equaled by the love of Jesus, that Trump is absolutely powerless to do a single thing whatsoever when it comes to the DOJ. Trump’s power over the DOJ is exactly and precisely the same as your power, my power, or the deceased Ronald Reagan’s power over the DOJ.
Attack, Attack, Attack....... Kill, Kill, Kill
Absent total destruction, all will be lost. There must be no reprieve, absolutely no quarter.
Trump’s power over the DOJ is exactly and precisely the same as your power, my power, or the deceased Ronald Reagan’s power over the DOJ.
Good stuff. Do you write comedy for a living?
Absolutely.
I’d declassify more than that if I were him.
There is no reason for POTUS to drop bombs during the lame duck. Everybody will be bugging out of the beltway shortly for Christmas/New Years and anything he does now will be old news shortly.
so PDJT has a spine, after all....
we’ve needed the DNC Clintons Pelousy and especially SorozNazi investigated ALL ALONG
I say, release the evidence NOW!
Trump has explained that he is using this situation for future “leverage”.
At least we know what the game is here. I think he should release this stuff, but I trust the guy so I’ll sit back & wait it out with the hope he’s a step ahead of his enemies.
Agree, but "it" has to be done with finesse at the most opportune moment.
There are several such moments and the trick will be to select the most important and the sequence in which they fall. For example, the moment he has a bullet-proof Senate in order to survive any impeachment we might see the opening move.
Before, he had an AG who refused to back him, and refused to go after obvious Democrat illegality.
He had a House leadership of Republicans against him.
He had a Senate with traitors John McCain and Jeff Flake.
Now he has a solid Senate and an AG who can actually work with him.
Of course he should do it. And more. There is so much evidence of conspiracy and criminality inside the White House, DOJ, FBI, CIA et al that it boggles my mind he hasn’t appointed a special investigator/prosecutor.
You have in the FBI a string of firings, resignations and demotions all based on malfeasance. You have the unmasking. You have the leaks. You have the texts and emails saying “the WH is running this”. You have a home-brew server dishing out classified info to all comers, a leak inside the DNC, the Awan brothers accessing Congressional servers and fraudulently stealing $100,000s in equipment. You have the FBI exonerating HRC months before interviewing her. You have perjury in the FISA court. You have the arrangement to move Steele from FBI to partisan operatives and the DNC paying millions for foreign sourced information. You have the wiretaps. Heck, even NSA Director Rogers knew what was up, warned Trump and Trump immediately packs up and leaves his home for New Jersey?
The conspiracy is so deep and wide, but really only the President can protect an investigator. The House has piles of evidence. Comey said that “no reasonable prosecutor would take the case” against Hillary... what does that mean, exactly? It doesn’t mean no crimes occurred, it means they are afraid of the consequences. Nobody can do this but Trump. If he has to appoint 3 Special Prosecutors, to divide the workload and protect their lives so be it.
Agree, but “it” has to be done with finesse at the most opportune moment.
There are several such moments and the trick will be to select the most important and the sequence in which they fall. For example, the moment he has a bullet-proof Senate in order to survive any impeachment we might see the opening move.
No doubt Rosendirtbag and the rest of the Deep State have certified the fact that declassifying these docs will harm national security. No doubt the docs implicate May and other world leaders. Releasing will be an international incident.
So not only is POTUS going against the Dems he is going against his own admin. With no top cover from his own party.
I think we can expect mass “resignations” from DOJ/Deep State when/if he drops this bomb. The beltway will be tied up for months. Nothing else on the MAGA agenda get done in that time. So, the question is when and if to drop the nuke on DC.
All the crap they have given him, he should declassify everything that destroys them.
If he is holding back for leverage like Rush suggests, they sure don’t seem intimidated.
What is the point, then?
When is the opportune time? Could it be January 2019?
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