Posted on 02/19/2019 5:19:13 PM PST by Zhang Fei
The American people have largely taken the disruptive Trump Presidency in stride, going about their lives and expressing their approval or not the constitutional way—at the ballot box. The same can’t be said for many of the country’s panicked elites, as we are learning anew about the Federal Bureau of Investigation as former deputy director Andrew McCabe hawks a new memoir.
Mr. McCabe now says that, after Mr. Trump fired FBI director Jim Comey in May 2017, Mr. McCabe and senior Justice Department officials “discussed whether the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet could be brought together to remove the President of the United States under the 25th Amendment.” That’s according to Scott Pelley’s account of his interview with Mr. McCabe aired Sunday on CBS’s “60 Minutes.”
In the interview, Mr. McCabe says Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein raised the 25th Amendment scenario “and discussed it with me in the context of thinking about how many other cabinet officials might support such an effort.” Mr. McCabe says he didn’t contribute much but seems to excuse the conversation because “it was an unbelievably stressful time.”
Mr. McCabe was fired last year for lying to FBI investigators, so it’s hard to know how much to believe. He’s also tried to qualify the interview after excerpts were disclosed, with a spokesperson saying that while Mr. McCabe “participated in a discussion that included a comment by Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein regarding the 25th Amendment,” he did not participate in any “extended discussions” about removing Mr. Trump.
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How did they get past the paywall to extract the story?
The entire article is in the WSJ page, it’s just hidden in the HTML. Outline.com extracts the entire article from the HTML.
Some sites don’t include the article in their paywall page. Outline.com does not work on those sites.
copy and paste the url into google
Not me, the rest of his natural life is still to short in my opinion.
Did not work, all you get is a url to the wsj article.
The bigger the conspiracy, the more potential weak links it has. finding one to break is actually a well established FBI tactic. It will be interesting to watch it being used on them. Someone will flip.
Muller and his select band of thugs have failed the Clintons and the democrat machine as a whole by not coming up with the sort of smoking gun they wanted.
The penalty for failing the Clintons is typically something a bit more severe than an orange jump suit.
link from google worked just fine here.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/congressional-leaders-didnt-object-to-fbis-trump-probe-mccabe-says-11550595284
click on the first link after pasting it into the google search box
Right. It will not work by clicking it from FR. Has to be in Google.
I run NoScript. Using IE or whatever the Windows browser is these days might not work.
paste the TITLE, not the URL, into the search bar.
title also works
It is a huge deal! McCabe’s interview was all fluff to sell books, CBS/60 Minutes should be embarrassed by their softball questions. This “firing of Comey” was the flimsiest of ex-post factor excuses and may not jibe with the official record because we know they had been investigating Trump for a year prior to all this.
It was Rod Rosenstein who wrote the letter to Trump saying Comey must be fired to protect morale inside the FBI and DOJ. So why then does McCabe says he was shocked at the firing and collaborated with RR on what to do about it? It was RR’s advice, and Trump had other reasons including the fact that Comey handed Trump a copy of the Fake DNC Dossier and said “it is all salacious and unverified but you should know about this” while at the same time the FBI/DOJ had used that as the basis to spy on Trump for a year prior. This is unethical and tantamount to extortion, as if Comey was threatening the POTUS with the document. When you add the fact the Comey admits he ran a fast one trying to interview General Flynn you know that Comey did not have POTUS best interest in mind at all.
Furthermore, Comey himself said he leaked several memos in order to trigger the appointment of a special prosecutor. Where does that fit into the RR/McCabe collaboration timeline and scheme? We are led to believe there was no coordination or communication on these and other issues? Nonsense.
It doesn’t really add up. Now add in the attempt by the FBI and DOJ to rally the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment: if you were a Cabinet member that would seem like intimidation especially knowing that these same people were manufacturing evidence, perjuring themselves in court, and railroading people who stood in their way.
I still say the whole episode is Conspiracy to Sedition.
McCabe and Rosenstein ‘discussed’ wearing a wire to record conversations with Trump in the White House.
That’s what we’re being told by McCabe. Rosenstein was to be the one with the wire.
My guess is that, they didn’t just discuss doing the recording of the conversations. As corrupt as the whole bunch was/are, I have no doubt that they did do the recording of conversations. Then, realizing that they were violating the law and constitution, they decided to tell the story about ‘discussions’. After realizing that they didn’t have the backing of enough people in the president’s cabinet to invoke the 25th, they back-tracked and called their intents, ‘just discussions’. Somebody should dig deep and find out how many times Rosenstein met with the president. There is more to the story than mere ‘discussions’.
There are dozens of people who were involved in this scheme from the DOJ, the FBI, the White House and beyond. Without a prosecutor to investigate and a Grand Jury to indict nothing will come and nobody will flip. Congress can investigate but they cannot prosecute. That said, there is a lot of information already in the Congressional record. Lots of potential perjury charges if a prosecutor were to sit down and interview, officially, each of the people known to have been involved.
Of course, perjury is just one of the least horrendous acts of this cabal. But Mueller has been able to leverage it; so would another prosecutor if one is every appointed.
Given the Rasmussen poll today showing 56% of voters believe these folks committed a crime, and this WSJ opinion, MAYBE this sad chapter in American history is coming to an end.
It’s time for Trump’s enemies to run for cover. They are at high risk.
Refresh the page and the article will appear, at least it did for me.
If they go on the run, the good guys better be following them with muskets in hand.
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