Posted on 01/14/2019 4:06:41 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Several top legal experts say the New York Times‘ report that the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) launched a criminal and counterintelligence investigation into President Trump after he fired former FBI Director James Comey casts more skepticism on the FBI than on the president. It was first reported in the Washington Post on June 14, 2017, that Special Counsel Robert Mueller was investigating Trump for obstruction, and that the investigation was launched days after he fired Comey. It was the first time an investigation into Trump himself was revealed. Previously, Comey had told Trump he was not personally under investigation.
But the Times report on Friday revealed more details about the investigation into Trump. It said in addition to a criminal investigation into whether he had obstructed justice by firing Comey, Trump was also being looked at in a counterintelligence investigation on whether he was acting on behalf of Russia by firing Comey.
Legal experts and political strategists on both sides of the aisle said the Times‘ report showed the FBI was motivated by revenge for Comey’s firing rather than by any evidence Trump was acting on behalf of Russia.
Mark Penn, a Democrat and former strategist for Bill and Hillary Clinton, wrote in an op-ed on Sunday that the FBI and the Justice Department’s actions “appear to be wholly without justification — and were based instead on politically inspired emotion and hysteria.”
“I didn’t support Donald Trump, and there are lots of things he does I don’t support,” he wrote. “But the idea that he was the Manchurian candidate working for the Russians when he ran on an America First platform is patently ridiculous.”
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Everything is a BOMBSHELL theses days with these idiots.
NYT CNN MSNBC
When something of importance comes around no one will pay any attention,
The Slimes trumphatred is so intense they didn’t realize they were documenting illegal and unethical conduct by the FBI, not any wrongdoing by Trump.
Yup.
The Deep State is a criminal conspiracy, period.
Why would Russia care if he fired Comey? That is a National Inquirer headline.
Comey said he didn't want to do that in case something changed. That never did make sense.
And not for nothing, I do not believe Comey scooted to his car, grabbed his computer and typed everything he could remember.
I believe he was wired and the wire was hand delivered to Clapper.
IIRC, Comey also told Trump that he could fire him (Comey) at any time. He said it more than once and I viewed it as a threat to the President.
And it turned out to be the truth.
To follow the media narrative you would have to assume Chris Wray is a Russia approved replacement for Comey. Is Chris Wray a Russian agent?
At one point, Democrats were accusing Comey of being a Russian agent. Then Trump fired him, and suddenly he became a hero.
Trump Derangement Syndrome.
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