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MAY 7, 2017, 5:41 A.M.
WASHINGTON
Laura King
... Trump took to Twitter on Sunday to criticize the scope and nature of investigations into Russian meddling in the U.S. presidential election on the eve of a much-anticipated Senate hearing that is to feature the testimony of an Obama-era U.S. deputy attorney general whom the president fired ...
Yates, serving at the time as acting attorney general, was fired by Trump at the end of January ... She is expected to be questioned by senators about her warnings to the White House in January regarding the then-national security advisor, Michael Flynn.
Flynn was fired for misleading Vice President Mike Pence and others about his contacts with the Russian ambassador, Sergey Kislyak. However, nearly three weeks elapsed between Yates caution that Flynn could have left himself vulnerable to Russian blackmail by making untrue statements and his eventual firing.
And Flynns dismissal came only after the Washington Post reported that he had misled Pence about what was discussed in his phone calls with the Russian envoy ...
http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-essential-washington-updates-on-eve-of-fired-justice-official-s-1494159676-htmlstory.html
annabanana
(52,791 posts)Anything to do with these investigations seems to make him especially buggy...
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)relevant in the with the Leaders around the World. The Real Story that should be Investigated as well as his Russian Hack ties,is,his Family Members using the Office of President to enrich themselves.
Trump Crime Family is using these few months as their Money Bag.