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struggle4progress

(118,214 posts)
Sun May 7, 2017, 04:00 PM May 2017

Tweets about Russia probe

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 Flynn’s 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

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Tweets about Russia probe (Original Post) struggle4progress May 2017 OP
Maybe he's getting nervous.. annabanana May 2017 #1
He's getting a lot of responses advertising Sally Yates tomorrow. L. Coyote May 2017 #2
Trump is doing his best to remain Wellstone ruled May 2017 #3
 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
3. Trump is doing his best to remain
Sun May 7, 2017, 04:17 PM
May 2017

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.

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